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As a child, Dubliner Oriole Cullen loved clothes and spent a lot of her time playing with the dressing-up box. It’s probably no surprise she ended up as curator of Modern Textiles and Fashion at the V&A museum in London, where she organises major exhibitions such as this year’s Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, the most visited show in the museum’s history, writes Elaine Prendeville