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Amidst the spectacle of the forthcoming Victoria's Secret Fashion Show it'll be easy for some of the craftsmanship to get overlooked. There are legs. There are lights. There's huge hair. There are sparkly props. And, we get it, there's also Taylor Swift. But, we still need to pay our respects to the handiwork that goes into the awe-inspiring looks that come down the runway. For that, we've got Swarovski to thank.
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00:03When I make something for Victoria's Secret, it's like you make a dream come true.
00:08For Victoria's Secret, I make something completely special.
00:13We begin with the drawings of the butterfly, of the corset, and the belt.
00:18I want to have everything in one drawing.
00:20It's difficult to show it on one drawing, but it's why I make samples after.
00:24I make the sample with a little thread.
00:26I go to somewhere to ask the guide, can you make me like that?
00:30I put the fabric, I sew everything with the hands, and after we begin to work with the crystals.
00:36Swarovski gives me the chance to see large.
00:42It's a nice quality of crystals.
00:44You can make your own degradé of color.
00:47You can take all the sizes of stone and you can mix together.
00:50You can really do what you want. Look.
00:52And after, you can mix everything. The degradé is very nice.
00:56You have the crystal corset.
00:58This one is completely brodery.
01:01You make first the base of the corset, and after you make the brodery, you can choose whether you want
01:05like beads.
01:06After we put all these different kinds of hotfix on, you have the belt, completely with crystals.
01:13You have a metallic thread inside. It's not crystal mesh. It's something new.
01:17The woven crystal, you can make shapes. You can give a very nice attitude on the crystal.
01:23I put all my metallic threads, I put the crystal inside, and I wove, wove, wove.
01:28And I see, ah, it makes a shape. And after I take the crystal, and I do what I want.
01:35Every piece like that, it takes four hours, six hours to make one of these.
01:41I need to make the sample of the belt, send it to someone, making me a very nice frame.
01:46After I make all the fabrics, I put all the crystals on. It takes a lot of time to do
01:51the crystal outfits.
01:53In my studio, we're working from 8 o'clock in the morning till 10 o'clock in the night.
01:58When I make the dress in Paris, it's on a mannequin. I don't have somebody walking with the dress.
02:05I don't see the movement.
02:07In New York, we tried on Lily Donaldson. I saw a lot of little pieces we need to change.
02:13Add more crystals on the butterfly. Some butterfly was too much like balancing like that.
02:19We need to fix. We cut everything again. We put on a new frame.
02:23I think I make four or five fitting on Lily to get a very perfect outfit on her.
02:29I think we have 88 pounds of crystals, 150,000 of crystals. It's very heavy.
02:38Swarovski, it's something strange. You feel something. It's very interesting in the Swarovski stones.
02:44You have a part of my soul inside because I take a lot of time, a lot of love to
02:49make that.
02:52Working for my collection, working for Victoria's Secret, I'm working for somewhere else.
02:55We see a lot of techniques and we mix everything together and Victoria's Secret have the most beautiful piece now.
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