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TOKYO Fashion designer Yumi Katsura, who helped popularise Western bridal wear in Japan and who made a golden cape for Pope John Paul II, has died aged 94, her office said on Tuesday.Having studied haute couture in Paris, Katsura opened Japan’s first bridal salon in 1964 at a time when traditional kimonos still dominated in wedding ceremonies and Western-style dresses were
World-renowned bridal fashion designer Yumi Katsura has died in Tokyo at the age of 94. Katsura, whose real name was Yumi Yuki, died on April 26, Japanese media reported Tuesday. Recently she had been in a wheelchair and attended her last fashion show in March. Katsura was born in Tokyo…