Miquita Oliver's Eternal Fashion: “I first wore this on Popworld. It was in the early 2000s - absolute chaos!

I stole this top from my cousin, Naima, when I was 18. She bought it at a flea market in New York, but it's from Victoria's Secret. I love the straps that cross in the back; it's simple, but very chic.

I first wore it on Popworld [the Channel 4 music show that Oliver co-presented from 2001 to 2006] with a very short skirt. We had no dress code - it was the early 2000s, it was absolute chaos! We had a stylist, but I didn't like working with them because I wanted to wear second-hand clothes.

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When we were young, my mother [chef Andi Oliver] and my aunt Neneh Cherry, who is Naima's mother, didn't have much money . Buying clothes from charity shops or Portobello Market is how we were raised. It's also how my Scottish and Caribbean grandmothers shopped. It is deeply rooted in our family. I never thought my clothes were "vintage".

Ten years ago, when I was 28, I got a job as a co-host of Channel 4's V festival coverage with Nick Grimshaw. It was a bit of a comeback for me. I put the top back on because the color looks great on TV, this time with the Levi's shorts I cut off and a pair of hideous Nike Dunks. These sneakers were the last time I tried to dress "currently". Today the shorts fit me differently because during lockdown I started doing a lot of jumping.

I'm extremely sentimental about clothes. They are our own personal story. I love wearing things again that I had a brilliant time in – putting them back on evokes those feelings again in a really visceral way. It's like stepping back in time.

I like to think of the person who first wore this top in New York. How did that make them feel? He came to me with stories and over the years I added my own. He survived about...