"It was fun to bridge the divide between [my illustrations and my videos],"
"I'm not a formally trained designer, but we had fun discussions on the specific shade of the pasta. I was quite vehemently like, ' This is the color of pasta.'"
"I went to Bloomingdale's and saw it in store for the first time," she says. "There were two teenage cousins who were shopping, and they took [the spaghetti dress] aside. Just watching them get it from afar, watching them stand there and be like, 'Oh.'"
Angelica Hicks is a British illustrator and content creator who recreates celebrity high-fashion looks using everyday household items, a practice known as kitchen couture. Her TikTok recreations include a viral Taylor Swift 2024 Grammy dress imitation that earned 44.6 million views. On Sept. 4, she launched a limited-edition collaboration with AQUA, a Bloomingdale's label, translating her illustrative humor into garments. Design highlights include a cocktail dress with beaded olive skewers, a pencil skirt with an eraser hem, and a spaghetti strap dress with pasta-inspired straps and crochet tomatoes. Hicks contributed to design choices and enjoyed observing shoppers' real-time reactions.
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