Art of Contrast Spotlight // Best Stylist
Today we are
featuring the winners of Best Stylist from Art of Contrast: A Night in Bollywood! Zoe Luiz and Sydney
Stonger styled two outfits together and they are both freshmen in the Fashion Merchandising
program.
Read below to hear
more on their styling process and their inspiration!
Modeled by Bianca Casto
“To begin our styling
process, we researched the culture of Bollywood and looked up images of classic
Bollywood outfits, makeup, accessories, etc. We then went to a few different
thrift stores around town: Goodwill, Fabulous Finds, and Einstein's Attic, which
actually ended up being a great thrifted costume store. We got most of our
pieces from Einstein's Attic, like the blue cape that Bianca wore, which was actually
originally attached to a dress! We cut the dress out from underneath the cape
and used it in our second outfit as a shawl on Erica's shoulder."
"We only spent about
two days shopping for the clothing items and then another day fitting the
models, so it was a pretty speedy process!"
"Our main challenge
was trying to make all the pieces cohesive and look good together, since we
couldn't design them to look exactly how we wanted. Rather than trying to make
everything match perfectly we decided to go for a very colorful look and match
the small aspects of the outfits, like all gold jewelry in one outfit and
silver on the other."
"Besides our internet
sources, we were really inspired by the Holi Festival in India. We wanted our
outfits to reflect this by using many bright colors that look good together,
even though they are very different.”
Congrats Zoe and
Sydney!
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