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Pro beach volleyball star Miwa Asao, 22, showed off the dress she will make her Paris Fashion Week debut in, at a Tokyo hotel this week. World-renowned fashion designer Yumi Katsura, 76, spent half a year completing the dress worth approximately 5 million yen. Katsura said she was inspired by the passion of American actress-singer Liza Minnelli, and designed it in the image of a young bird cruising through the sky.
Asao expressed her concerns about modeling in the Spring-Summer 2009 event on Jan 27, but said she was happy to be chosen. She also said: “It’s a really beautiful dress. When I saw myself in it, and with the make-up done for me, I thought I looked like an adult.”
Katsura said: “I wanted someone with beautiful legs for the short dress, and tailored it to suit Asao’s great body.”
© News reports
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loltehinterwebs
moar!
WilliB
5 million yen for that? I prefer the bikini. Who doesn´t?
oberst
she has a nice set of legs, not like the typical dikon ones. Lovely !!
zaichik
I agree with Cleo about the feather duster....
electric2004
Cleo: thanks for the translation and information. This way I like even more what I see.
onedragon
Beautiful Bird!
justmeinto
On the other hand if you think of that big feather duster around her as a big mixture of chocolate and vanilla cotton candy, I wonder if there would be a lack of volunteers to start licking away.
cleo
lectric -
It's probably a translation of otonappoku mieru, for which a better translation would be I thought I looked sophisticated or I thought I looked elegant, ie looking attractive but not in a cutesy way.
But that outsized feather duster looks neither sophisticated, elegant nor cutesy.
electric2004
At age of 22 she should be an adult, even by the Japanese standard of 20 years to adulthood.
temporaryVisa
I've never seen her wearing so many clothes.
ThonTaddeo
Herefornow and Razor, I agree completely! Let's see more photos like this one; who needs the beach volleyball gear?
alphawolf
I agree with Cleo, she is beautiful..
justmeinto
good one cleo (the feather duster I mean)
cleo
???
Why on earth would anyone hope that?
She looks like she went through a Star Trek transporter carrying a feather duster, and there was a mix-up.
bebert
Yes, the legs and look are stunning, but as for the dress, let us at least hope real fur was used.
nath
I love the dress, but taking months and 5 million? Good old Japanese bull on that. She wears it well though.
beowulf
Those legs go on and on, but I would still rather see her in her playing beach volleyball.
scoobydoo
I think she looks fine.
Spidey
Best Gamist!
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Spidey
Worst Dressedist!
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wanderlust
Let's hope that with all these commercial activities, she doesn't forget her training and how to play beach volleyball...
justmeinto
Even in that hideous dress she looks very good. Note to Yumi Katsura, world famous or not you might need a new pair of glasses.
smartacus
Actually, I think she looks more attractive like this than in her beach volleyball gear. A girl's legs always look sexier in stockings.
techall
just google imaged her....definite babe!
herefornow
Anyone looking at the dress, and not those legs must have ADD. I simply say WOW.
magpie
Cannot disagree with teh beautiful legs and great body comment!!!
But have to say that i agree with Sarge that the beach volley ball gear would be even more appetizing!
Sarge
I prefer the beach volleyball gear.
"Asao's great body"
No arguments there!
soldave
Cute girl, hideous dress (even more so than the usual Paris Fashion Week efforts).
nath
Well, at her tights look nice. How would one sit down? She looks like a pouffe (small cushioned foot stool, not male hairdresser/fashion designer); if she did sit down someone would probably sit on her.