This photo provided by courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows Child’s Kimono with Wisteria and Trellis, Japan, Meiji period, early 20th century, made from stencil paste-resist dyed ...

Nearly 100 representatives of the durable fashion are being uncrated for the museum's exhibit, "Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan," which opens Saturday and continues through Oct. 10.

Art Review ‘The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design’ Review: Clothes as Canvas The Worcester Art Museum highlights the iconic garment and its influence on three centuries of printmaking.

The kimonos are from the collection of John and Etta Hesselink of Holland. The Hesselinks were missionaries to Japan from 1953 to 1973, during which time John Hesselink also taught historical ...

The Asian Art Museum’s Kimono Refashioned demonstrates the kimono’s enduring impact on fashion since the 19th century through luxurious Japanese kimonos, opulent Western gowns, and haute ...

It said similar events took place when the painting, depicting a woman in a kimono, travelled throughout Japan for an exhibition. But protesters have held signs at the Boston museum's events ...

The prints of the time depicted popular fashion showing the striking kimono of the female beauties or bijin, Kabuki actors, and the goddess-like courtesans. Traditional motifs, patterns, and styles of ...

The kimono is included in the exhibition, “Kimono: A Modern History,” on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art) ...

NEW YORK – It's difficult to imagine a more eloquent symbol of Japan than the deceptively simple, T-shaped kimono. Traditional yet ever changing, the kimono ("thing to wear," in Japanese) has ...

A Yohji Yamamoto coat, Japanese, spring/summer 1983, made in cotton, is included in the exhibition "Kimono: A Modern History," on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through Jan. 19, 2015.