Yuniya Kawamura – FIT Newsroom

This triptych includes, at left, a reproduction of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Courtesane," which features a Japanese woman wearing a bright multicolor kimono, centered in a mustard yellow rectangle, which is framed by renderings of bamboo, waterlilies, and egrets. The center image of the triptych is a photo of a 1913 kimono-inspired satin, silk, and chiffon evening dress that is black, white, and pink, and is embellished with glass beading. The image at right is a reproduction of the 1843 painting "Tanabata No Take" by Yoshitama Utagawa. It shows a woman in classic geisha dress: black hair in an updo and she wears and flowing patterned kimono.

Yuni Kawamura Presents at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg

May 19, 2025 Kim Masibay College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Professor Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, Sociology, was an invited guest speaker at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida […]

Yuni Kawamura and a woodblock print of a samurai surrounded by Japanese script

Yuni Kawamura Presents at Dress Historians’ Conference in London

October 17, 2024 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor of Sociology, presented a paper titled “Japanese Tabi and Footwear in Ukiyo-e” at the Association of […]

Yuni Kawamura Speaks on Oxford Panel

May 20, 2024 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor, Social Sciences, was invited to join a panel discussion at Oxford Brookes University in the U.K. […]

Professor and Alumna Donate Knits to Those in Need

April 1, 2024 Irina Ivanova Alumni, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Professor of Sociology Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura and alumna Rhonda Navojosky have co-founded a charity project, “NY Close-Knits.” The project donates […]

Book covers of Cultural Appropriation and Fashion-ology,

Faculty Books Examine Cultural Appropriation, Contemporary Fashion

March 13, 2023 Irina Ivanova Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts, Top Stories

Yuniya Kawamura and Jung-Whan (Marc) de Jong, both Social Sciences, recently published a book on the thorny and timely question […]

Yuniya Kawamura and a fan holding her book inside an auditorium.

Yuniya Kawamura Speaks at Phoenix Art Museum

January 4, 2023 Irina Ivanova College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, professor of sociology, recently presented her work on Japanese fashion subcultures at a museum exhibition celebrating a […]

cover of Doing Research in Fashion and Dress

Yuniya Kawamura Joins Editorial Boards of Two Peer-Reviewed Journals

February 7, 2020 Laura Hatmaker College & Campus, Faculty/Staff, Faculty/Staff Home, School of Liberal Arts

Yuniya (Yuni) Kawamura, Sociology, has been invited to serve on the editorial board of two peer-reviewed journals: a Russian-English body […]