This bomber jacket features a landscape design that sums up everything I love about Japanese surface design: abstracted symbols of nature, cropped vistas with partial reveals, bold organizational geometry, and large swaths of emptiness. I am particularly happy that I was able to align the pattern on the left sleeve with the horizontal motifs on the rest of the jacket. Narrow Japanese silks are not always so amenable.

I made the lining from another vintage kimono that I deconstructed. It's a heavyweight silk crepe stenciled with a variety of children's playthings. The back measures 22" from neckline to bottom hem and 26" armpit to armpit. The arm measure 30" from neckline to hem.