Goal:

The goal of this project was to create a style guide for a public figure. I approached the re-styling of Lily Collins as a form of storytelling to capture her essence. I sought to find a balance between maintaining her individuality/ personal taste while reducing the modernity and exaggerating the glamor. Each of the looks exude sophistication, sexiness and romance with a touch of occasional androgyny to break the boundaries of traditional femininity and explore the possibility of endless transformation.

Within each chapter I used the ‘Kibbe body types’ system to help inform my decision making for different cuts and styles. The theory is based on the amount of yin (sharpness) and yang (softness) within an individual with each falling on one axis or the other. There are 13 different ‘types’ and Lily Collins falls into the ‘Flamboyant Gamine’ which is characterized by ; a petite build with a more squarish body shape and daintier limbs.