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Born in 1976, MIKIO SAKABE is a fashion designer and designer. In 2007-08, his eponymous fashion brand MIKIO SAKABE debuted at the Paris Collections for the fall/winter season in a presentation format, and in 2019, he established a brand specializing in footwear, GROUNDS. In 2019, he founded grounds, a brand specializing in footwear.
Hirofumi Kurino
Born in New York in 1953. After graduating from college, he worked in the fashion retail industry as a sales representative and brand director before founding United Arrows with Osamu Shigematsu and others in 1989. He was a member of the Fashion Faculty of the Royal Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium from 1996 to 2002, 2009, and 2013, and was awarded an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2004. He has been a member of the external jury for the LVMH Prize since 2014, and received the Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix - Amiko Kujiraoka Special Award in 2023.
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