Kunihime dresses got into the Japan's most prestigious textile paper as follows:
Nihon Sen-i Shimbun(Japan Textile and Apparel Newspaper) on Jan 25, 2010
Queens International
Traditional Message to the People Worldwide
Through Kimono Dress “Kunihime”
Queens International (HQ: Osaka Japan, Pres. Kuniko Shimada) announced that they have just renewed their website “kunihime” kimono dress. This site is only available in English. They would like to send their message of “the greatness of Japan’s tradition” through their innovative kimono dress called “kunihime”.
Their dresses are really luxurious; made from Japanese authentic “uchikake kimono”, the dresses are completely tailored. Their customers are mostly the wealthy in the world. Ms. Kuniko Shimada just started this business last year as their new business. Her close relations to many foreigners through her career led her to make this dress because she has wanted to show the Japan’s world-class tradition to the people in the world. After some traials, she succeeded in turning the kimono into western dresses, but she uses "very exclusive kimono fabric".
Kunihime Website: http://www.kunihime-kimono.com/
