Sachiyo Harada was stepping down Paris’ Avenue de l'Opera erstwhile a young woman saw her, smiled and exclaimed, "Ah! You're nan onigiri (rice ball) girl!”
Harada was calved successful Hokkaido, but aft 20 years of surviving and moving successful Tokyo, she was successful request of a break. Her business of designing kimonos arsenic a freelancer and making bags nether her ain marque was a success, but nan activity and recreation of attending world manner shows, including aggregate visits to Paris Fashion Week, had led to burnout. In request of a reset, astatine nan property of 38 Harada moved to Paris successful 2003 for a sabbatical and what she calls her “second chance astatine life” successful nan City of Light.
Taking a infinitesimal to cod herself connected nan Avenue de l’Opera, Harada realized that nan twelvemonth earlier she had made classical onigiri and miso crockery for unit astatine a manner show successful nan city, and nan young woman was nan girl of 1 of nan attendees.