Tia Adeola

In her work, Tia Adeola aims to "rewrite history through fashion" especially for people of colour ("The Founder"). The designer uses embellishments like ruffles – a callback to the ruff collars of centuries past, worn by the privileged and wealthy – as a subversive response to the classical art history she learned in school.¹ By using ruffles in her own designs, Adeola "[places] the power of the statement ruff in the hands of a young and diverse community of women.”²

¹ Vincent describes ruff collars worn by the wealthy in The Anatomy of Fashion: Dressing the Body from the Renaissance to Today, which connects to the subversive context of Tia Adeolas's mask.
² Sinclair highlights the contemporary reclaiming of ruffles in Tia Adeolas's designs.

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