The Fashion Diplomacy of Yukari Sunaga

Yukari is known as a fashionable lady who dares to wear quirky dresses.

As an ambassador’s wife, Yukari Sunaga has been living around the globe following her husband’s work in the diplomatic world. Arriving in Jakarta in 2016, the wife of the Japanese Ambassador to the ASEAN immediately became renowned among Indonesia’s diplomatic community as well as Indonesian society. With her warm personality and an amazing jazz singing talent, Yukari has mesmerised everyone she’s met.

Aside from her personality and talent, Yukari is also known as a fashionable lady who dares to wear quirky dresses made of antique kimonos that are a part of her mother and grandmother’s collection to recycling materials that are turned into a conceptual dress. She shares some of her most iconic dresses with Indonesia Design and we are honoured to feature it in this edition of design focus. Fashion is indeed one of the best universal languages and Yukari did a fantastic job sharing her country’s uniqueness through her approach to doing fashion diplomacy.

Indonesia Design would also like to bid a fond farewell to ambassador Kazuo Sunaga and his lovely wife Yukari Sunaga. We wish them all the best to their next posting in Doha, Qatar.