12th Interview: Dr. Satoshi Onuma | Japanese Fashion Design Education

In Tokyo I was talking to Dr. Satoshi Onuma, President of Bunka Fashion College, about Japanese history and culture of tailoring. Originally making kimonos, Bunka focuses nowadays on human skills in education to scope with today’s ever-changing professional environment. Bunka Fashion College, founded in 1919 in Tokyo, is the most prestigious Japanese fashion college specializing in the teaching of fashion design. Among its graduates are such prominent alumni as Kenzo and Yamamoto. Bunka offers exchange programs with Central Saint Martins in London and Parsons in New York. Personally, I was seriously impressed by the size of the school (more than 10.000 students only in Japan). The Campus Building in Shinjuku Tokyo is so huge that I couldn’t take a whole picture of it.