Harvard Club of Washington, DC

 The Kimono-Blue Jeans Connection w/Ann Marie Moeller AB '77

Ann Marie Moeller, a Japanese textile scholar, will explore influences from samurai edicts to contemporary fashions to illuminate the Japanese attraction to denim jeans

Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan

Harvard Club member Ann Marie Moeller AB '77 is a  scholar and independent curator of Japanese textiles who has collected kimono since her student years at Harvard. She was the Consulting Curator for Indigo Threads: Weaving Japanese Craftsmanship and American Heritage at the JICC, Embassy of Japan, and for the recent exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Kimono and Obi: Romantic Echoes from Japan’s Golden Age, which is also featured in Google’s Arts and Culture online exhibitions. She lectures nationally for a wide variety of institutions including the Smithsonian Institution, the Asia Society, The Textile Museum, the Japan Foundation and the Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan.  She is the main author of Reading Kimono: Nature Symbols and Motifs on Japanese Kimono to be published by Schiffer.  Ann Marie has also curated exhibits for the Kennedy Center, the International Monetary Fund, the National Cherry Blossom Festival and the Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan.