Kazuko Koike
She is the founder and president of Kitchen Inc., an all-women studio that planned and produced design-related projects (since 1976). She is founder and president of Sagacho Exhibit Space, an alternative space for arts in Saga, Koto-ku, Tokyo (1983-2000). She is editor and author of books including "Issey Miyake, East Meets West" (Heibonsha, 1978), "Kukan no Aura" (Aura of Space) (Hakusuisha, 1993), and "Fashion: Fashion as a Form of Polyhedron" (Musashino Art University Press, 2004), "Japanese Coloring" (Libro, 1981), and "Japan Design" (Libro, 1984). Major awards include the 1985 Mainichi Design Prize and the  1995 Japan Award for the Promotion of Art and Culture. In September 2012, she curated the exhibition "Ikko Tanaka and Future/Past/East/West of Design" at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo. In March 2022, her works will be displayed in an exhibition, "Alternative! Kazuko Koike Exhibition -- Soft-Power Movement of Art & Design".