How Japan's first dressmaking school changed women's lives

Born out of a drive to make Western-style clothing accessible, Tokyo's Bunka Fashion College unleashed a sartorial and social revolution among Japanese women after it opened nearly a century ago. "If you spot someone fashionable around here you just know they are from Bunka," she told AFP at the end of a long night working on her final-year collection. Japanese fashion is now associated with cutting-edge designers -- and Bunka graduates -- like Yohji Yamamoto and Kenzo Takada.