Internationally renowned Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, known for dressing late English singer-songwriter David Bowie, died last week of leukemia, his family said Monday. He was 76.Yamamoto, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in February and had been hospitalized since, "left this world peacefully" last Tuesday while surrounded by family, his daughter and actress Mirai Yamamoto wrote on Instagram.The native of Yokohama, near Tokyo, became in 1971 the first Japanese designer to hold a fashion show in London after receiving Japan's Soen Award, which identifies up-and-co…READ FULL ARTICLE
