Tadashi Shoji
Tadashi Shoji
Tadashi Shojiis an American-based Japanese fashion designer and the creator of the Tadashi Shoji and T by Tadashi clothing labels. Shoji is particularly known for his red carpet gowns and evening wear...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth15 January 1948
CountryJapan
business flies remember second time took white window year
Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures.
believe using
Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
business gives proud
My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
business thinks
Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.
appeal pick regardless
I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.
famous
Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.
almost wearing
There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses.
afford design dresses expensive japanese sell value women
It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.
design designers leave pattern sketch tells
So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.
cheers wearing
As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
anyone celebrate confident good inner inspire matter shape strength wear women
Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.
powerful flower grace
So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it