Writer • Artist • Fashion Consultant
Kri Yamada is a writer, artist, and global fashion futurist. Her creative praxis explores themes of identity, spirit, ecologies of relation and non-linear time as invitations to deeper meaning, connection and belonging. Yamada’s work is grounded in the paradox of re-integrating fragmented pieces of self, while releasing the notion of “self” altogether.
Her art is included in The Remembrance Gallery on the grounds of the former Puyallup Assembly Center concentration site and the Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology.
Kri’s work in fashion spans the creative and business spheres of the industry as a Creative Direction Consultant, Fashion Forecaster, Global Trend Reporter, Senior Brand Manager, Product Developer and Buyer. Her craft has been honed within iconic design houses, multi-channel retailers and start-ups alike, carrying her from coast-to-coast and style capitals worldwide.
She is an alumna of the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York) summa cum laude, Polimoda (Italy) and the University of Nicosia (Cyprus). Kri’s been seen in Marie Claire, W, Elle UK, and VEVO, among others.
Photos by Simbarashe Cha
Facilitator • Coach• Being
Kri is also a spiritual life and creative coach certified by Wholebeing Institute, member of the first Embodied Social Justice Program co-directed by Rev. angel Kyodo Williams at The Embody Lab, and further trained in Somatic Sex Education at the ISSSE.
She is a member of the Tsuru for Solidarity Healing Arts Collective/Healing Justice Campaign, with a history of work in other community organizations including the IRC and Young Women Empowered’s API Solidarity Group.
Her service abroad includes co-facilitating intensive 9-day healing retreats in collaboration with Shipibo Curanderas/os and offering integration coaching in the Peruvian Amazon, while engaging frameworks for the de-colonization of healing work on Indigenous lands.
She moves through this incarnation as a queer, disabled and neuroemergent edge-walker of mixed Japanese and European ascent.
WORK / PRESS
Select Exhibitions, Public Art, Curation
“A2849431”, The Remembrance Gallery (public exhibit/memorial). 2024 - ongoing
“SECOND SKIN: Fashion for Meaning, Connection and Belonging” (curator). The Fishbowl. 2025
“Spiritual Materialism”, Scroll-ology, Northwest Collage Society (juried group show). 2024
Select Writing
“After Hours” and “Refuge” (poems). WA State Queer Poetry Anthology. Eds. Arianne True / Clare Johnson. 2025
”Lunisolar Planner for Mending Relation with Time” shelved at Mam’s Books. 2024
Select Features, Media, Press
“Generosity and Creativity Abound, Volunteers Sew Masks for Newcomers” on IRC (2020)
“What to Pack for Fashion Week with Nordstrom Global Trend Reporter Kristin Yamada” on The Thread (2017)
“Our Photographer’s Favorite Milan Hangouts” on Nordstrom’s The Thread (2017)
“How to Look Great at Work, According to 3 Women with Fashion Dream Jobs” profile Marie Claire (2016)
“Weekday Chicday” profile Marie Claire, October Issue (2016)
”For the Love of Art” campaign and profile Seattle Art Museum (2016)
“Vince Staples – Style Mix Designed by Nordstrom” presenter on VEVO (2016)
“Betty Who – Style Mix Designed by Nordstrom” presenter on VEVO (2016)
“People Wore Their Best Gucci to Gucci” Fashionista (2016)
“Fashion Week Dossier” profile on Nordstrom’s The Thread (2016)
“Coachella Street Style 2016: All About Accessories” W Magazine (2016)
“Best Street Style from Coachella 2016” Racked (2016)
“Coachella 2016: Street Style” Elle UK (2016)
CONTACT
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