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- Hi everybody, my name is Kayleigh Rayne,
and I'm four years old.
My favorite animal is an elephant.
(elephant noise)
I want to be a doctor
because I can give everybody shots!
Let me show you.
It's this outfit.
And guess what, guys?
This is a long sleeve.
This is the tutu, and this is me!
And this top is rainbow.
- Hey guys, my name is Ngozika Okeke,
a designer based here in Los Angeles.
- Hey guys, my name's Erin.
I'm a fashion designer based in LA.
- I'm getting elephants, rainbows.
What else?
Unicorns.
We have a lot of bright color at the bottom.
It looks like a tutu,
so I'm thinking a lot of netting, a lot of tulle.
- Purple tutu dress, and she has a unicorn on it.
Trying to see how I'm gonna do this.
- She mentioned something about some sleeves.
The drawing is amazing.
Spot on.
We'll see what we can do with it.
I feel like I can really work this out.
- What else can you expect from a four year old?
They liked them rainbows, they like them unicorns,
they like them tutus.
So I'ma have to supply her with her needs, okay?
- So, let's get to work.
- All right, challenge accepted.
Let's go, girl.
- So I'm thinking today,
I'm looking for a lot of tulle, stuff with a lot of color.
So I'm about to take you guys on the journey with me.
So let's see what we can do.
- I think my hardest part
is gonna be trying to find rainbow fabric that I like.
- Okay, you guys.
So one of the things baby girl kept mentioning in the video
was rainbows, so look what I found!
Rainbow tulle!
- [Erin] I just found rainbow elastic.
I mean, it's purple, which is probably good,
so it kinda matches the tulle skirt.
Look at it, look at it.
That's gonna be sick.
Okay yeah, we're gonna do this one then.
- [Ngo] So I think we're gonna go with this one, guys.
- All right, we got the goods!
Kayleigh, I'm ready for you girl.
Let's do this.
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- Ready to do it.
- Yes, I'm ready to go, let's go.
- Okay.
- So I looked at her picture
and I figured that my approach would be
to honestly chop it up into two pieces.
- So I started at the top,
which can typically be the most extensive work that you do.
So I wanted to get the hard part
kind of out of the way first
and then go into the easier stuff.
So what did you think
when you initially saw her dress, her sketch?
- You know, she has some color blocking going on.
At first, at the top, right?
So I was like, "Oh, I'ma take a color block approach."
Then she's like, "Oh, it's rainbow."
I'm like, "Where the orange crayon at, sis?
"I don't see no orange in this.
"I see a little bit of, where the red?"
I don't, I was like,
"Oh, okay, well I guess we're doing, we're doing rainbow."
How about you though?
- Just adorable.
First off, I just couldn't get over how cute she was.
- Yes.
- So I just was like, "Okay, let me play it back",
because I need to get over that.
So once we got over the cuteness, the adorableness,
I think it's something magical
about that whim that children have,
and I saw that in her outfit too, so I like it.
So I felt like it's a lot of opportunity to play with color,
to play with texture and just kind of mix it up
and do whatever.
So now here we are, five or six different fabrics,
trying to figure out how to incorporate them all.
- Huh, I found my love for fashion design
way back in kindergarten.
I was known as the girl in elementary school
who draws fashion figures,
and I used to do the whole big heads and cute outfits.
And everyone would tell me,
"Oh, you should be a fashion designer.
"You should be a fashion designer."
And I was like, "What is that?
"I don't even know what that is."
And so then I found out and I was like,
"Oh, okay, I could do this."
And so ever since then, I was just like,
this is what we about to do for the rest of our lives.
Kinda serious, but serious decisions happen
at young ages, sometimes.
- I can tell you right off the bat,
halfway through undergrad,
I was 19 years old, full of hopes, full of dreams.
Didn't know how to sew a seam, but we made it happen.
- That rhymes too, that was hot.
- Bars.
(Erin laughs)
You hear me.
Right now, I am attaching the overlay,
the rainbow overlay to, again, the bodice,
vocabulary word of the day, for the top of her dress.
Honestly, when I get done with this,
I want to ask her if I can make one for me too.
Can we be twinsies,
because I just want to wear rainbow tulle too.
I think one thing that's lost on a lot of people
about fashion design
is there is so much math involved as well.
Hems, seam allowances, measurements for the right people.
It's a ton of math.
- The top and the jumpsuit that I was making
was taking longer to cut out than I had expected.
I don't know why I'm freaking out
like I ain't got no more time.
I think it's 'cause I haven't started sewing yet.
I think that's why I'm like...
- But if you're mapping all your pieces out first,
I think that saves you time too.
- That was really the piece that I was excited to make
because I knew it would catch the lights really well,
and I didn't want to leave it out in any kind of way.
That's one thing.
Everybody has their own design style.
They have their own process style.
So however you start making your...
The zipper popped, but stuff happens.
Yeah, now I am in a tight seat
because I'm basically hoping and praying
that I don't have to use a zipper.
- [Ngo] Yeah.
- I mean, luckily I cut the, the bodice
and the jumpsuit part a little bit bigger.
Luckily I cut the, the sequin fringe bigger.
So, hoping we be all right.
- Halfway through the process,
I'm like, "Okay, I spent way too much time on the bodice,"
which is the top of the dress, but it was done.
It was out of the way.
So now I was making my way toward the bottom,
trying to figure out what the skirt was gonna look like,
what the waistband was gonna look like,
if I was gonna put a zipper, all those other elements.
But at the halfway mark, definitely the pressure was on.
I was sweating, you see it.
But you know, it is what it is.
- Oh, this is a whole 180 from how I was before.
I was chilling before.
I don't be doing these time things, my God.
I'm feeling the burn.
I haven't even started on my freaking jumpsuit.
I'm still doing the skirt.
So yeah, I definitely overestimated the time
that I was going to take.
I was trying my best to keep my cool and not to stress out.
- So I wanted to do some sort of jacket or bolero
as well as the dress,
but once I saw that time was running out
quicker than I thought,
then I decided to just do a lot of detail on the sleeves
and just kind of leave it at that.
- And then at the end,
I just had to kind of slap the sequined fabric
wherever I could find.
- The final look, I am very proud of.
It had a lot of the elements.
I didn't incorporate much of the, the elephant
or the, the unicorn, the actual animals.
But I think that things were kind of reminiscent of that.
- [Producer] Three, two, one!
(designers wooing)
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(camera shutters)
- Overall, I think it turned out really good.
I think it was amazing on her,
and I'm really happy with this.
- Yes!
(designers laugh)
- The final look.
Well, the skirt, I'm fine with, I'm happy with,
it turned out great.
If anything, I would have probably cut a little bit
off of the bottom,
just so that it didn't drag too much for her.
So I just made the base, kept it simple
and I wasn't able to do any finishing for the sleeves
or for the neck line, so please do not get mad at me.
I'm all about quality, but I did not have time.
- [Producer] Three, two, one!
(designers wooing)
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(camera shutters)
- I got the purple skirt, I got her rainbow
and I even added a rainbow of her name on her waist.
(Kayleigh exclaims)
- I'm definitely nervous.
I'm happy with what I did.
At this point, you never know.
- I'm nervous because I did not get to finish the outfit
the way that I wanted to do.
Hey, it is what it is.
We had a great time.
We gelled and had a good sewing experience.
Oh, no way!
Oh, you're kidding!
- It's the sparkle.
- Oh, you liked it?
- It's the sparkle.
- I was really not expecting her to choose my outfit.
The other outfit, let's keep it real,
that was popping, okay?
It was so nice.
It was beautiful, iridescent.
She loved the rainbow, so it is what it is.
- [Producer] Why is this your favorite outfit?
- Because it's rainbow and sparkly.
- [Producer] Because it's rainbow and it's sparkly?
Thank you to the designers.
- [Kayleigh] Thank you.
- [Both] Thank you!
- It's the sparkles.
- Bye bye!
- Bye.
- [Producer] Bye bye!
(designers laugh)
Shout out to Kayleigh for liking my dress.
Girl, I'm glad you did not look at them edges
that were unfinished, girl.
I just wanna thank myself.
I wanna, I wanna thank my cover stitch.
His name is Sergio.
He always been a real one for me, fam.
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