I started Ragmatazz because I believe nothing with a good story should end up in a landfill. The name comes from something indigenous cultures have always known: that ordinary things, like twigs, berries, scraps of cloth, become extraordinary through human hands. That’s still the idea. I take what’s been discarded and make it worth keeping. Reworked pieces. Curated thrift finds. Wearable art made in collaboration with artists who carry that same instinct. Plus-size bodies at the centre of it, always. Because we deserve to thrift well

The Longer Story

Ragmatazz has always had an old soul.

The name comes from a story I kept coming back to… the way indigenous cultures around the world took things that were essentially ordinary. Twigs. Leaves. Scraps. And turned them, through skill and creative energy, into something beautiful and lasting. That alchemy felt like exactly what I wanted to do with clothes.

So that’s what Ragmatazz is. I take what’s been discarded, i.e. pre-loved pieces, deadstock fabric, clothes headed for landfill, and give them a second life. Sometimes that means reworking them entirely. Sometimes it means collaborating with artists to turn a plain garment into something you’d frame. Sometimes it just means hunting carefully until I find the right thing for the right person.

A big part of that person is plus-size. The thrift world has a gap. Donations skew small, and plus-size shoppers walk out empty-handed more often than not. I started curating specifically for us because I was tired of that experience, and I figured I couldn’t be the only one.

The philosophy hasn’t changed: on our own, things go unnoticed. Together - patterns, cultures, hands, histories - we make something worth wearing.

What Ragmatazz Stands For

• Fashion is political. What we make, what we buy, what we throw away — none of it is neutral. Ragmatazz exists at the intersection of craft and conscience.
• Every piece is made from surplus, thrifted, or reclaimed textiles. Every garment saved is one less in a landfill. Every series is built around an idea worth wearing — feminist, political, spiritual, ecological.
• We are handmade. Small batch. Socially conscious. And proudly, loudly, Free Palestine.

How I Work

Everything starts with a material… a thrifted tee with good bones, a scrap of Tanzanian fabric from a dress that already lived one life, a screen-printed wall hanging found in a Rishikesh market. I look at what it already is and figure out what it wants to become.

I work in batches, out of Dehradun. Each piece is cut, stitched, painted, and finished by hand. No two are identical, not because I’m trying to be precious about it, but because that’s just what happens when one person makes things one at a time.

The Collaborations

Some of the best Ragmatazz pieces have come from working with artists who share the same instinct, that making something by hand is a political act as much as a creative one.

Dondup Wangmo is a Tibetan batik artist whose work I’ve been fortunate to collaborate with. Her art on fabric is the kind of thing you’d frame. We put it on tees instead.

Komolini is a maker and artist based in Rajpur whose love for craft, upcycling, and conscious making mirrors everything Ragmatazz stands for. Together we made a collection of hand-painted clay pendants on thrifted gingham necklaces; slow, considered, and completely one of one.

If you’re an artist or maker who works with reclaimed materials and wants to collaborate, I’d love to hear from you.