Julie Valk is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College London. She is a social anthropologist who has produced a substantial body of work on the Japanese kimono industry and contemporary kimono culture. Her work has appeared in HAU: the Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2020), the Journal of Material Culture (2020) and Fashion Theory (2018). She has research interests in economic anthropology, the sociology of expertise, financial systems, Japanese society and culture, as well as clothing and fashion.

• 1. Kimono in Crisis? The Paradox of Contemporary Kimono Culture2. The Kimono and the Kimono Industry3. The Rise of the Formal Kimono in the Post-War Years: Selling Status and Commercialising Knowledge4. The Path of Resilience: Weathering the Economic Crisis and Managing Public Perceptions5. Azumaya: The ‘Nail That Stuck up so Far that No One Could Hammer it Down’6. The Kimono as Fashion: Lifestyle, Taste and Individuated Consumption7. New Directions: Second-Hand Retail and New Business Models8. Crisis and Hope Interwoven: The Future of the Kimono Industry

Julie Valk is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College London. She is a social anthropologist who has produced a substantial body of work on the Japanese kimono industry and contemporary kimono culture. Her work has appeared in HAU: the Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2020), the Journal of Material Culture (2020) and Fashion Theory (2018). She has research interests in economic anthropology, the sociology of expertise, financial systems, Japanese society and culture, as well as clothing and fashion.

• 1. Kimono in Crisis? The Paradox of Contemporary Kimono Culture2. The Kimono and the Kimono Industry3. The Rise of the Formal Kimono in the Post-War Years: Selling Status and Commercialising Knowledge4. The Path of Resilience: Weathering the Economic Crisis and Managing Public Perceptions5. Azumaya: The ‘Nail That Stuck up so Far that No One Could Hammer it Down’6. The Kimono as Fashion: Lifestyle, Taste and Individuated Consumption7. New Directions: Second-Hand Retail and New Business Models8. Crisis and Hope Interwoven: The Future of the Kimono Industry

Julie Valk is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College London. She is a social anthropologist who has produced a substantial body of work on the Japanese kimono industry and contemporary kimono culture. Her work has appeared in HAU: the Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2020), the Journal of Material Culture (2020) and Fashion Theory (2018). She has research interests in economic anthropology, the sociology of expertise, financial systems, Japanese society and culture, as well as clothing and fashion.

• 1. Kimono in Crisis? The Paradox of Contemporary Kimono Culture2. The Kimono and the Kimono Industry3. The Rise of the Formal Kimono in the Post-War Years: Selling Status and Commercialising Knowledge4. The Path of Resilience: Weathering the Economic Crisis and Managing Public Perceptions5. Azumaya: The ‘Nail That Stuck up so Far that No One Could Hammer it Down’6. The Kimono as Fashion: Lifestyle, Taste and Individuated Consumption7. New Directions: Second-Hand Retail and New Business Models8. Crisis and Hope Interwoven: The Future of the Kimono Industry