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Akiko Savas
Akiko Savas is a Ph.D. candidate at Osaka University and a member of a collaborative research project at Bunka Fashion Research Institute in Japan, and led the research project ‘Modernization of the Kimono and the Manner of Wearing It from the 1910s to 1930s in Japan’ – focusing on the Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum’s Collection’ (2011–13). She conducted research for the Osaka University research project ‘Art and Design in Asia: Comparative Studies in the Twenty-First Century from British and Japanese Perspectives’ as a visiting scholar at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2012–13. Savas was a special research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and received a grant to support her Ph.D. research in 2014–17. She received a BA in 2007 and an MA in 2010 in comparative literature from Osaka University. Savas’s current research interest is Japonisme and fashion. She is preparing her Ph.D. thesis entitled ‘Japonisme in British fashion at the beginning of the twentieth century’ for submission. She has presented papers in Japan, Britain and the United States. Her latest publication is entitled ‘Changes in the representation of kimono and kimono-clad women in British popular fiction in the early twentieth century’ and is published in Studies in Japonisme (2015).