Biography
Born in Kyoto in 1953, Masao Hosoo graduated from Doshisha University’s School of Economics in 1975 and joined ITOCHU Corporation thereafter. After being seconded to Nortons in Milan, Italy in 1978, he returned to Japan and joined Hosoo Corporation in 1982. He took the posts of representative director and president of Hosoo Corporation in 2000. Mr Hosoo produced a kimono show at Japan Week in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2002 and he was involved in the planning of the Kyoto Premium project from its inception in 2005. He has displayed products every year at the Maison et Objet trade fair in Paris, France, from 2006 onward. He started a business in collaboration with the Yogyakarta Sultanate in Indonesia in 2005.
Mr Hosoo took a lecturer’s post at Doshisha Business School from 2007. In 2011, he ramped up exports of textiles which make use of Nishijin-ori techniques and materials. In 2012, he opened a combined workshop and showroom in Kyoto called House of Hosoo, and he also opened a showroom in Soho, New York, in 2013. He holds the post of deputy chairman of the Kyoto Association of Corporate Executives.
細尾真生（ほそお まさお）
１９５３年京都市生まれ。７５年同志社大学経済学部卒業後、伊藤忠商事㈱入社。
７８年イタリア・ミラノのノートンズ社に出向。８２年帰国後㈱細尾入社。２０００年
㈱細尾代表取締役社長に就任。０５年「京都プレミアム」プロジェクトに初年度より
参画し、０６年よりパリの「メゾン・エ・オブジェ」見本市等に出品。海外市場展開を始める。１１年から西陣織の技術と素材を活用した広幅織物の開発に成功し輸出事業を本格的に開始。１２年織物工房とショールームが一体となった「HOUSE OF HOSOO」を開設。１３年ニューヨーク・ソーホーにショールームを開設。織物の可能性を追求し、様々な先端技術との融合により商品開発を進め、世界に展開している。
（一社）京都経済同友会理事。
