It shouldn’t be a surprise that I ended up being a fashion designer and having a love for all things vintage. I grew up in Pennsylvania where my grandparents had a side business collecting antiques and selling them at flea markets every weekend. I think this is where I fell in love at an early age with going to flea markets. I would go with them and watch my grandmother collect and sell her vintage linens while my grandfather sold his furniture and tools. As I grew older, I would continue to go to flea markets and the Goodwill and start to buy clothes to take back to my room, ripping each apart and re-sewing them into something new. I learned to sew at a very young age from my mother who liked to make my dresses, doll clothes and Halloween costumes, so, I was always around creating and making things. My father had a tool shop in the basement, and my brother and I would go down there to saw, hammer and even turn wood on a lathe. I had my own vice and tools that my father gave me. I thought this was normal and never thought it would be a career path for me one day.
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