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  • BBC History Magazine

    ENCOUNTERS

    May 09, 2024 2 minutes

    DIARY By Jonathan Wright, Danny Bird and Eleanor Barnett

    EXPLORE Orkney, Scotland

    TRAVEL Granada, Spain

    EXHIBITION

    Fashion icon

    What’s the first symbol that comes to mind when you think about Japan? Mount Fuji? Cherry blossom? Or, perhaps, it’s that quintessentially Japanese robe: the kimono.

    V&A Dundee’s latest exhibition traces the evolution of the kimono over the past 400 years,

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