It all started with The Dress. It had been handed down in Fred's family from the 1860's, meticulously hand-stitched but not quite finished, until his mother sewed the last pieces together to wear it to a costume ball when Fred was a child living in Australia. Over a year ago she handed it to me, saying she felt I would know what to do with it. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it, but it was a long time before all the elements came together and I finally got to realize my concept.

I'm always intrigued by anachronisms; the idea of mixing old with new, like looking at a woman in an antique photo holding an unexpectedly modern magazine.