Miwa Asao swaps beach volleyball gear for glamour of Paris fashion week
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TOKYO —
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.”
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Razor
Actually, I think she looks more attractive like this than in her beach volleyball gear. A girl's legs always look sexier in stockings.
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soldave
Cute girl, hideous dress (even more so than the usual Paris Fashion Week efforts).
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Sarge
I prefer the beach volleyball gear.
"Asao's great body"
No arguments there!
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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!
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herefornow
Anyone looking at the dress, and not those legs must have ADD. I simply say WOW.
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techall
just google imaged her....definite babe!
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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.
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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...
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Spidey
Worst Dressedist!
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Spidey
Best Gamist!
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scoobydoo
I think she looks fine.
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beowulf
Those legs go on and on, but I would still rather see her in her playing beach volleyball.
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Yelnats
I love the dress, but taking months and 5 million? Good old Japanese bull on that. She wears it well though.
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bebert
Yes, the legs and look are stunning, but as for the dress, let us at least hope real fur was used.
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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.
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justmeinto
good one cleo (the feather duster I mean)
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alphawolf
I agree with Cleo, she is beautiful..
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ThonTaddeo
Herefornow and Razor, I agree completely! Let's see more photos like this one; who needs the beach volleyball gear?
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temporaryVisa
I've never seen her wearing so many clothes.
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electric2004
At age of 22 she should be an adult, even by the Japanese standard of 20 years to adulthood.
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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.
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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.
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onedragon
Beautiful Bird!
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electric2004
Cleo: thanks for the translation and information. This way I like even more what I see.
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zaichik
I agree with Cleo about the feather duster....
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oberst
she has a nice set of legs, not like the typical dikon ones. Lovely !!
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WilliB
5 million yen for that? I prefer the bikini. Who doesn´t?
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loltehinterwebs
moar!
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