Stasia Matsumoto can predict how her customers will react when they see themselves dressed head to toe in a traditional kimono, even before they have had a chance to glance at themselves in the ...

"Kimono production is done by 20 different artisans, with 30 different processes ," Matsumoto says. "My home town's kimono takes half a year. Or a really precise one, it takes one and a half ...