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cover of Fashioning Japanese Subcultures and photo of Yuni Kawamura

Yuni Kawamura Holds Charity Show in Tokyo, Publishes Second Edition of Book

September 18, 2025 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor of Sociology, has published a second edition of Fashioning Japanese Subcultures (Bloomsbury 2025) with three additional […]

This triptych includes, at left, a reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Courtesane," which features a Japanese woman wearing a bright multicolor kimono, centered in a mustard yellow rectangle, which is framed by renderings of bamboo, waterlilies, and egrets. The center image of the triptych is a photo of a 1913 kimono-inspired satin, silk, and chiffon evening dress that is black, white, and pink, and is embellished with glass beading. The image at right is a reproduction of the 1843 painting "Tanabata No Take" by Yoshitama Utagawa. It shows a woman in classic geisha dress: black hair in an updo and she wears and flowing patterned kimono.

Yuni Kawamura Presents at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg

May 19, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Professor Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, Sociology, was an invited guest speaker at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida […]

Yuni Kawamura Speaks on Oxford Panel

May 20, 2024 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor, Social Sciences, was invited to join a panel discussion at Oxford Brookes University in the U.K. […]

FIT Authors Talks: Yuniya Kawamura on Fashion-ology: Fashion Studies in the Post Modern Digital Era

August 31, 2023 Laura Hatmaker

In this virtual talk Professor Yuniya Kawamura discusses her book Fashion-ology: Fashion Studies in the Postmodern Digital Era. The third […]

Yuniya Kawamura and a fan holding her book inside an auditorium.

Yuniya Kawamura Speaks at Phoenix Art Museum

January 4, 2023 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor of sociology, recently presented her work on Japanese fashion subcultures at a museum exhibition celebrating a […]

Globally Connected @ FIT: Slender and Beautiful: On Standards in the Fashion Industry

October 26, 2022 Laura Hatmaker

Paolo Volonté, Author of Fat Fashion: The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies (2021), in conversation with FIT Professor […]

Globally Connected @ FIT: Cultural Appropriation in Fashion and Entertainment

November 6, 2020 Laura Hatmaker

Guests: Dr. Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, Professor of Sociology Dr. Jung-Whan (Marc) de Jong, Associate Professor of Sociology In this talk […]