Hiroko Matsumoto (松本 弘子, Matsumoto Hiroko, 11 August 1936 – 21 June 2003) was a *anese model, first *anese model who worked in Paris, from 1960, to the late 1960s, considered to be a first *anese supermodel.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Filmography
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Biography

Pierre Cardin met and fell in love with Matsumoto in 1960 during a trip to *an. She would eventually follow him to Paris where she was Cardin's top model. Known as Miss Hiroko, she was the first ever *anese model for a French clothing collection.

Matsumoto ended her modeling career in 1967 and married Henry Berghauer, a manager at groupe Pierre Cardin. Berghauer went on to become a manager at Hanae Mori, and later of fashion company Hervé Léger. In 1970, Matsumoto played the prominent part of Kyoko, the *anese lover, in French director François Truffaut's movie Bed and Board. Many of the dresses worn in the movie were designed by the Hanae Mori fashion company.

A few years later, Hiroko Matsumoto married Jean-Claude Cathalan, who, at the time, was a manager at Roussel Uclaf He later became the president of Revillon, Parfums Caron, Jean-Louis Scherrer and is the current president of Comité Montaigne. Their daughter, Maxime Cathalan, was kidnapped in Neuilly-sur-Seine at the age of 20 months in front of her nurse. The child was returned on 23 June 1975 for a ransom of 1.5 million Franc.

In 2003, Hiroko Cathalan died in Paris at the age of 67 after a long period in the hospital. The cause of her death remains uncertain.

Filmography

References

External links

• Fashion portal
• *an portal

• Hiroko Matsumoto at IMDb