Akira Isogawa: Unfolding a life in fashion over 25 years

When Akira Isogawa was a young boy in Kyoto, he would swaddle his body in one of his mother's tea towels as he trailed behind her while she was doing the housework.

"When she went into the kitchen I used to pull out our oblong Japanese tea towels and play with wearing them in different ways," he says. "These are my earliest memories of draping and manipulating fabric."