
Yumi was a Japanese fashion designer who created over 650,000 dresses over the course of her career. She is credited with popularizing the “everyday” kimono in Japan and around the world. She opened Japan’s first bridal store in Akasaka, Tokyo and established the Yumi Katsura Bridal Museum in Kobe, and later opened boutiques in Paris and New York. Yumi Katsura designed the Easter vestments worn by Pope John Paul II in 1993. One of her dresses is in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s Costume Institute. She holds the Guinness World Record for most pearls on a wedding dress: 13,262. The wedding industry will miss her.
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