Tomo Koizumi interview: meet fashion’s king of ruffles

The art of big frills according to the Japanese maximalist

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Ruffles have always been a sign of exuberance in fashion. In Elizabethan times, the decorative collar was a signifier of wealth and status: the larger your ruff, the bigger the statement you were making about your material possessions, power and authority. The “cartwheel ruff”, for example, which was popular at the end of the 16th century, often comprised 600 pleats crafted from around six metres of luxurious lace.

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