Through her time at Tufts, Van Dusen made costumes for the university’s theater department, which ready her for internships each for the duration of and immediately after college or university with the style makes Norma Kamali and Proenza Schouler, and a postgraduation occupation in the studio of the designer Mary Meyer. All the even though, Van Dusen was creating her own vivid, sample-centric dresses — which she’d been executing because higher university — on the side.  “I would go to material or classic stores and test to obtain major bolts of material,” she claims. “I would make samples, get preorders from shops, and then produce the collection six months later…