"I like history and I’ve always been interested in the handicrafts of different eras, and the costume and the technology that underlay the costume, from making thread to weaving to embellishing. 

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"Because clothing and decoration is so important, you can see the technology, the level of wealth in a community, the influence of political movements, the effects of war and famine and everything like that in clothing. By the time I was in late highschool, I realized that if you could look at the fashion of an era, you could pin down what was happening in that period.

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"So it’s always been the hook that I hang knowing history on." 

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- Artist Kyra Matsui