Sayoko Yamaguchi was a Japanese model and actress.

 

Yamaguchi was a Yokohama native and a graduate of Sugino Gakuen's Dressmaker Gakuin design school in Tokyo. She broke into the international modeling industry in the 1970s. She was one of the first Asians to be featured in the world's top fashion shows and magazines. Yamaguchi made her debut in Paris in 1972. She went on to work in New York City and other international cities. Newsweek Magazine named her one of the world's top six fashion models in 1977. That year, she was featured on the cover of Steely Dan's Aja album. Yamaguchi went on to continue her career as a film and theater actress, as well as a costume designer. Yamaguchi died, aged 57, on August 14, 2007, of acute pneumonia.

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"momenti di bellezza nell'obiettivo di noriaki yokosuka"
VOGUE ITALIA, MARCH 1983
Photographer: Noriaka Yokosuka

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"rigorosamente sensuale"
VOGUE ITALIA, DECEMBER 1983
Photographer: Noriaka Yokosuka

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Kansai Yamamoto S/S 1984

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UNKNOWN PHOTOSHOOT, 1984

Photographer: Noriaki Yokosuka

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Valentino s/s 1985  :

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Kenzo  (Paris s/s 2000) - retrospective :

 

with Kenzo,  80s

 

Diamond event, 2004-09

 

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Kansai Yamamoto 1981-1982

 

Michaele Volbracht  1981 (probably f/w) :

 

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Sayoko Yamaguchi
High Fashion Magazine (Japan)
April 1984
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yves saint laurent s/s 1984 rtw

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yves saint laurent f/w 1984 rtw

yves saint laurent s/s 1985 rtw

yves saint laurent f/w 1985 rtw

 

 

issey miyake f/w 1981

jean-charles de castelbajac s/s 1982 

claude montana s/s 1982 

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9 minutes ago, fakediorpurse said:

issey miyake f/w 1981

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claude montana s/s 1982 

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Toko togashi

2 minutes ago, fahad.s said:

Toko togashi

oh wow thank you! ive never heard of her before wow 

thierry mugler f/w 1986 rtw

kenzo s/s 1974 rtw

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US Vogue February 1975

"European Fashion - the Movers"
Photographer: Deborah Turbeville
Hair Tony, Bruce Libre & Laurent Godeffry
Makeup Tyen, Thibault Vabre, Chrisophe Carita, Eduardo & Federic, Olivier Echaudemasion & Jean-Marc Maniatis

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Harpers and Queen UK Feb.1977 - photo Francois Lamy

also showing unknown models

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