Sandra Sakata

Sandra Akemi Sakata (August 24, 1940 – September 21, 1997) was an American fashion designer and fashion retailer.

She was a proponent of the art to wear movement and featured one-of-a-kind creations at her boutique Obiko. Which she co-founded in 1972 with Kaisik Wong, Alex Mate and Lee Brooks on Sacramento Street, San Francisco. She sought to showcase the work of artists she met in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sakata graduated from California State University, Chico and received a teaching certificate from the University of Hawaiʻi. She worked as a flight attendant for Pan Am for six years before returning to San Francisco. In the mid-1970s she "found her true metier" and became a boutique owner. In 2014 the aforementioned Cacicedo along with Ana Lisa Hedstrom, fiber artist and former colleague at Obiko, compiled an archive of the artists and the work they made during their time at the boutique. It was presented at the Biennial Symposium for the Textile Society of America.This archive documents the Art Wear Movement in Obiko from the 1980s to the 1990s.