My favorite outfit as a kid was a handmade shirt and skirt that my mom made me more a violin recitals. It was a shirred white top with peasant sleeves and a long, black, tiered skirt. She braided my hair on top of my head and stuck small roses into the braids. I felt beautiful, like Frida Kahlo. For both my mother and me, that outfit is the quintessence of my style. Since then, I’ve been trying to recreate and modernize that look.