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When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.

People didn't just wear wedding dresses in the past. They also wore plain cotton shifts beneath them. As pretty as the dresses might be, and as lovely as they might look on display, if a museum doesn't hang the shifts beside them or acknowledge that the shifts existed, that exhibit's incomplete.

I still like my antique clothes.

A walk through the storage facility of the community museum where I worked might easily have convinced you that people in the past wore only wedding dresses, carried silver candlesticks, and played with porcelain dolls.

There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!

I have lots of vintage clothes.

I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.