An exhibition of the work of late Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori is held at Iwami Art Museum in Masuda in the western Japan prefecture of Shimane on Oct. 4, 2025. About 400 items, including five dresses belonging to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, are on display at the exhibition, which is being held through Dec. 1 to mark the 100th anniversary next January of the birth of Mori, who was brought up in Shimane Prefecture and died at 96 in 2022. (Kyodo)

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