is a Japanese fashion model, public figure and popular fashion blogger. She is an official fashion blogger for JFW, which is an international fashion exhibition, regularly organized by prominent Japanese fashion newspaper, Senken Shimbun.Satenstein, Liana(March 19, 2015)"The Best Street Style from Tokyo Fashion Week" Vogue Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2015Wake, Shinya (April 25, 2014)"Cosmetics recreate a computer-enhanced 'big eye' look" Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 16 July 2015"Fashion TV" Fashion TV. Retrieved 16 July 2015エンタメ(April 26, 2014)"これなんてご褒美!? 超会議で美人キックボクサーにお尻を蹴られてみた" Kai-You Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2015
Yuri is also a model who has appeared on television networks, such as Fashion TV and has been featured in such prominent publications as Vogue, Timeout Magazine and Asahi Shimbun."Timeout Magazine" Retrieved 16 July 2015画像出典(November 27, 2014)"ワールド系モデル！次世代のkawaiiは中川友里デス" Retrieved 16 July 2015
Early life
During her childhood, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Yuri studied Japanese tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and gymnastics and enjoyed expressing herself, through these traditional Japanese arts. She had planned to begin modeling work, after high school graduation, but her parents would not allow her to leave the prefecture, unless she attended college. Yuri moved to Tokyo, to study, and began her successful modeling career in the final year of her college degree.Rocky (February 19, 2013)"It Girl Tokyo – Yuri Nakagawa" The Third Look Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2015(March 12, 2014)"Yuri Nakagawa w/ lilLilly, Chocomoo & Fleamadonna in Harajuku" Tokyo Fashion. Retrieved 21 October 2015"Ellegirl Magazine" Retrieved 16 July 2015
In popular culture
In 2015, Yuri Nakagawa was featured in the novel Trueman Bradley - The Next Great Detective, second novel in the Trueman Bradley series, by Alexei Maxim Russell. In the novel, the protagonist, who is a private detective, and a Japanophile, is obsessed with Yuri. He uses her Instagram posts as a source of inspiration, to help him uncover the secret of resonance, the lost art of instinctual inference, which he purports was one of the secret tactics of the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes."Livedoor News" Retrieved 16 July 2015(March 16, 2015)"Street of Shibuya, Tokyo" Fashion Snap Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2015(October 20, 2015)"Street of Shinjuku, Tokyo" Fashion Snap Magazine. Retrieved 26 October 2015
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