Designer and fashion designer Yoko Kuwasawa was born on November 7, 1910, in Tokyo. She passed away on April 12, 1972. She entered the Western Studies Department of Joshibi University of Art and Design in 1928 and graduated in 1932. The following year, she enrolled at the New Architecture and Design School, where she studied design journalism, including architecture, interior design, and fashion. There, she learned about and was deeply influenced by the Bauhaus, a comprehensive school of visual arts established in Weimar by architect Gropius. Through an introduction from architect Renshichiro Kawakita, she joined Tokyosha, the predecessor of Hearst Fujingaho. From 1941, she trained in Western dressmaking under fashion designer Shigehei Ito. In 1942, she founded the Kuwasawa Fashion Studio and began her career as a fashion designer. She subsequently wrote about fashion design, served as a university lecturer, and advocated for industrial and functional fashion design.

Believing that comprehensive basic and specialized education in design was important, he founded Kuwasawa Design School in 1954 and Tokyo Zokei University in 1966. At the time, the establishment of a purely "vocational school for design" was groundbreaking. He passed away in April 1977.