Gerald McCann (fashion designer) Gerald McCann (fashion designer) Gerald McCann (born 1931) is a British fashion designer who was considered among the leading lights of the Swinging London fashion scene, alongside names such as Mary Quant, subsequently moving to the United States to continue his career. After early commercial success designing for other brands, McCann established his own label in 1963. He attracted the attention of influential US fashion buyers in the mid 1960s and soon began designing for the American market, as well as for key British fashion retailers targeting the youth market. He moved to the US to work on New York's
Japanese fashion as social resistance a mountain hag who was the namesake of the Yamanba (noh play). The play tells the story of a traveler who encounters this woman and questions whether she is a spiritual being or simply an old woman. Drawings and masks from this play depict Yamanba as a woman with a headpiece or wig of shaggy white hair, much like the bleached and backcombed hair of today’s Yamanba girls. As was traditional for characters Noh plays, Yamanba’s actor was clothed in a mask and complex costume. Today, participants in Yamanba fashion define themselves by their unusual clothing and a ‘mask’ of