He has made clothes for democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, and the late Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe.
TOKYO – Having fled Myanmar for Japan with his parents as a child, Mr Shibuya Zarny began his fashion career as a model in Tokyo and went on to make clothes for royalty.
Mr Zarny’s parents fled to Japan as political refugees in 1993 when he was eight. As a teenager, dressing with style became a way for him to avoid being bullied. As his career took flight, Mr Zarny launched his eponymous label in 2011, a year before finally securing Japanese nationality.She wore a lilac one to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012, a moment which Mr Zarny said “changed my life”.Alongside his catwalk endeavours over the following years, Mr Zarny acted as a mediator between Japan and Myanmar.
Fashion designer Shibuya Zarny checking the fitting of a dress on a model in his workshop in Tokyo in May 2024. PHOTO: AFP“So many refugees from Myanmar came to Thailand, at the border,” said the 39-year-old. Mr Zarny’s professional connections in Myanmar were scattered – just one challenge he has faced in recent years.
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