Hikari yokoyama biography of christopher cross

Hikari is a successful female entrepreneur, art curator, interior designer, philanthropist and Contributing Editor at British Vogue. Born in Tokyo and raised in Chicago, Hikari began her career immersed in the art world. She worked for art collector Jeffrey Deitch, started an art blog called ArtObserved, before launching online auction house Paddle8.

Now living in London, she is the Founder of Naum House, specialising in art curation and interior design for a highly aesthetic sensibility, alongside Naum Flower, sustainable cut flowers from farm to vase in London and Oxfordshire.

Hikari Yokoyama, Curator, Trustee for Women for Women International - UK. "The facts show that women are paid less in museum director positions, have smaller.

Well, I grew up in a fairly normal way for the s — in a split level house in the economically optimistic suburbs of Chicago. Only I was born in Japan and my dad was Japanese. I had that classic bicultural, biracial feeling of feeling like I never fit in and I was desperate to fit in. That took a lot of energy and lead to a lot of false starts.

It was only when I finally made it to the city, to university that I felt like I could start exploring who I was without working so hard to camouflage. For years I have wished I was one of those people who knew exactly what they wanted to do, and did it. When I read the Steve Jobs bio, I was heartened by the story that he took a calligraphy class in university not knowing what it would be applied to, but then it helped him to create Apple and gave him an edge over the other less aesthetically inclined computer companies of the day.

Sometimes, I feel like my whole career has been a series of calligraphy classes. Patchwork Quilt Jacket. Like many girls, I was brought up as a girl to be pleasing, to be polite, tidy in my appearance and look for praise to know I was doing the right thing. When I got older, I wanted to be pretty, stylish, popular and get good grades.