When did you come upon this marriage of content with dresses that channel women?
The importance of dress was hammered to me over and over since very early childhood. I was told that the way we dress carries a very important message. It speaks to all who see us and tells them who we are, where we come from, what our values are. And so growing up I came to believe that in my dress there were traces of all the history of the family, of all the sagas, the miseries, the triumphs. I remember looking at the laundry line, at my dress hang to dry in the sun and trying to guess in which side the aunt who spoke 6 languages hid, in which seam the uncle who played the violin and who was lost during the war was resting. I wondered which melody he was going to play if he could see me staring at his hidden spot… So it was totally natural to start using the dress form as an open book, telling my views on women’s stories.
from a conversation with Catherine D. Anspon