Remember when Beyoncé wore that sheer Givenchy clothes with hand-sewn crystals to the Met Gala aftermost year and bankrupt the internet? Yeah, same. India Ross, an 18-year-old aerial school student from St. Louis, Missouri, created a Yoncé-inspired look to wear to her brawl and now Ross is having her own moment of viral fame.
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"When I gave my artist my money, I said, 'Can you accomplish me feel like I'm Beyoncé?' And that's what she did," Ross said. Ross spoke to Cosmopolitan.com about all that went into slaying this look. Spoiler alert: You don't accept to accept bags of dollars to attending as absolute as Beyoncé.
How did you appear up with this idea?
I absolutely love Beyoncé. I watch a lot of appearance shows and anytime back I saw her accouterments at the Met Gala, I aloof knew that I was activity to abrasion that to prom. It was apparent and I admired all of the chunk and crystals. Everything about the accouterments aloof bent my attention.
Do you appetite to go into fashion?
I accept been committed to the Columbia College of Chicago. I plan to bifold above in appearance business and appearance affairs with a accessory in accessible relations and marketing. I appetite to accessible my own business and hopefully acceptable a celebrity stylist one day.
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You actively dead this look. What was the action of recreating the gown?
I came up with the abstraction and a bounded artist in my city, Toi Hall, advised it for me. We formed together. I knew it wasn't accessible for me to get the absolute Givenchy dress Beyoncé wore — I wish! So we looked about for being that was cheaper than what Beyoncé actually had.
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What abstracts did you use and how continued did it booty actualize the dress? I'm abiding you were so afraid to see it afore your big day.
We acclimated a cobweb material. She angled the cobweb actual back she was bed-making the dress because brawl is a academy action and I couldn't accept it as apparent as Beyoncé's. I saw a lot of comments adage it wasn't apparent at all, but that's because it was for prom. She begin jewels from our bounded Michael's and we aloof put them on to the dress.
I met with Toi in the average of April, and my dress wasn't accomplished until the day of my brawl [this accomplished weekend]. I was freaking out. Brawl doors opened up at 9 p.m. and I best up the dress at 5 p.m. My artist said that authoritative the dress was actual time-consuming. You can't aloof abode rhinestones anywhere because it would accept looked a mess. We'd be texting all hours of the night. She alleged and affected abject with me about my dress every day.
Prom was the best demanding action ever. I aloof capital to accomplish abiding aggregate was perfect. My dress wasn't done and I was afraid I was activity to absence my beard and architecture appointments. At one point, I didn't alike appetite to go anymore. My artist told me my dress wasn't done and to go to my beard and architecture accessories aboriginal to aces up my dress last. I was afraid my dress wasn't how I capital it. The timing of the dress afraid and fatigued me out the most.
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Girl, your poses were on point. You looked amazing! How did the dress accomplish you feel?
It actively acquainted like I was at the Grammys. At prom, it acquainted like we were about with a agglomeration of celebrities because anybody looked good. I acquainted so cute. My agents were calling me "Little Beyoncé." All of my classmates capital to booty pictures with me and the photographers at brawl took so many pictures of me. I acquainted like a celebrity.
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What about your date?
My date said "You are the best admirable affair ever." He was accepting so abundant absorption because I was his date.
How cute! Is that your boyfriend?
Yes, that's my boyfriend.
Did you apprehend your dress to get so abundant attention?
I affiance you I never anticipation that this would appear to me. This is a accurate blessing. I aloof anticipation I was a babe activity to prom. I knew I was activity to attending admirable because, of course, I chose the architecture for my dress. When I gave my designer my money I said: Can you accomplish me feel like I'm Beyoncé? And that's what she did. I did not apprehend for it to draft up like this. It's been wild.
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What are people's all-embracing acknowledgment to your dress?
It's 50-50. There's a lot of absolute comments, but I've apparent a lot of abrogating stuff too. I accept a lot of aplomb and I absolutely don't affliction what anyone has to say about me, whether you like it or not. I can booty criticism and I appetite to apprehend the acceptable and the bad because it alone makes me better. A lot of bodies said, "She appetite to be like Beyoncé." I do not appetite to be Beyoncé, I am India. Beyoncé inspires me because she has so abounding absolute aspects about herself that I attending up to. But I do not anticipate I'm Beyoncé, I am my own person. I accept my own style, my own beliefs, and my own life. I don't appetite to alive her activity but she is a acceptable role archetypal for everyone.
What's abutting for you?
Since I'm activity into the appearance industry, I appetite to do it all. I aloof begin out that Beyoncé is advancing to St. Louis, so I'm activity to charm addition one of her looks with my designer, Toi. I appetite to do article cipher abroad has done. Hopefully I get to accommodated her because that would beggarly aggregate to me. Her claimed stylist, Ty Hunter, put a affection beneath my account but I'm like, where's Beyoncé?
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