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Takizawa's collection "was so beautiful, it made everyone cry," according to Susan Koller, fashion editor of the French magazine "Self-Service." Franka Sozzani, editor-in-chief of Italian "Vogue," says Japanese designers are "so independent, they are icons in the fashion world."

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