A girl carrying kimonos. Thompson St, February 1912.

搬运和服的女孩，汤普森大街，1912年2月。

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How did you start making kimonos, which has now become your most representative work?

你设计的和服现在成了你的代表作品，你是怎么开始要设计和服的呢？

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I was surprised to find out that people there saw my kimonos as “traditional and modern” and accepted them.

我在法国展出了我的和服作品，法国人出乎意料的接受我的作品，称我设计的和服：“既现代又传统”。

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The service, offered by ladies in kimonos, is attentive and at one with the setting.

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For now, Okutani devotes her considerable energy not only to her business but to her non-business interests, which include Japanese dancing and collecting kimonos.

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Amid two dozen men and seven women dressed in kilts, top hats, and kimonos, the quietly aloof Quijada stuck out like an umlaut in English.

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