Meet The Stylist Behind Love Island’s New Designer Look
For a long time, Like Island has been synonymous with rapid manner, underboob dresses and Boohoo Male shorts. That could be about to alter, on the other hand. This year, in a shift which has been welcomed by the style business, Like Island has partnered with eBay, changing final year’s sponsor, quick-fashion model I Saw It Initially. It comes immediately after hefty criticism from advocates for sustainable manner (which include 2021 contestant Brett Staniland, who protested outside Molly-Mae Hague’s first catwalk show as resourceful director for PrettyLittleThing).
Helping the contestants embrace all points sustainable, is Amy Bannerman, a stylist, specialising in pre-loved apparel, who has earlier worked with the likes of Dua Lipa, Sophie Turner and Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness. And she states having the information about her new occupation was ‘the greatest simply call ever’.
Even though she may have dressed A-Listing shoppers, Amy says that sorting the islanders’ outfits was no different – and that she has interviewed each and every of the contestants to find out what they do – and do not – want to have on. ‘I just approached it like it would be any one,’ Amy tells Grazia. ‘[Speaking with my assistant] we might be like oh my God, they’d genuinely really like this or we really should get them this Jacquemus hat. Then we just went on-line and were being getting issues for the islanders – it is own shopping for these really sweet people today who are actually thrilled.’
Yep, you did just read through the title Jacquemus. It couldn’t be further from I Saw It Initial, but doing work with eBay usually means islanders will be sporting designer brands, with Amy title-checking Gucci, Aläia and Balmain. Understandably, the stylist provides that, pre-villa, the islanders ‘couldn’t believe’ some of the brand names she was displaying them. ‘And I imagine that’s what is so fascinating,’ she states. ‘One of the most important attracts for me about eBay is that you can purchase runway pieces, you can have designer items that you have preferred your full everyday living or that you missed out on the first time close to. They are all there if you happen to be affected person and you might be on the lookout for them.’
Amy clarifies that islanders will be dressing to four themes: Blurred Strains (considerably less gendered dressing, believe Harry Types), Enjoy Me Forever (necessary goods: like a denim minimize off shorts), Y2K (Amy says she was looking eBay for Jane Norman and Bay Buying and selling) and Dopamine Dressing (traditional Like Island neon). ‘I wanted to opt for four themes that encompassed all the things that I would want to contain,’ she claims. ‘The most important one I preferred to consist of was Really like Me Permanently, so it really is all of the items in your wardrobe that you get and keep for the rest of your life, like the ideal jeans, a good denim jacket, hundreds of genuinely unbelievable black attire from makes like Gucci.’
Definitely, apart from islanders putting on incredible dresses, just one of the major hopes of the partnership is that changing wherever the clothes are sourced on Like Island will have a knock-on outcome, encouraging far more folks to invest in sustainably. ‘I believe that is why everyone’s so every person in the vogue market is so psyched,’ claims Amy. ‘This is the most popular mainstream Television set clearly show. And it reaches these a cross section of generations. eBay could not have chosen a much better spouse to reach the audience that predominantly appear to be to store rapidly style.’
Photographer: Ian Harrison