On Tuesday evening after a gruelling 10 week wait, the winner of Styled To Rock was FINALLY announced!!! An episode which started off with a lot of pressure on the 3 remaining designers, Jacqueline, Heidi & Zainab. The girls had been working towards styling Rihanna for her Wireless performance this summer, with such a high quality of design & perfection expected from them in the latter stage the girls were under a lot of stress, stress only us the viewers could imagine..
The judges delivered Rihanna’s brief to the contestants which included A Cleopatra, tribal theme which sounds hard in itself.. Jacqueline was first to be eliminated as she mirrored Rihanna’s body suit from her Rated R tour ( which I went to hehehe) In the final Heidi the small fish & Zainab the dark horse waited in anticipation at the Barclay’s Wireless Festival to see which ensemble Rihanna finally picked..
It was such a tense wait for the girls and also the viewers, Rihanna finally pranced on stage wearing Zainab’s design which was absolutely fantastic, the cut, the finish everything was on point!! Congratulations Zainab!!
Zainab created a high- waisted pair of lacy shorts, with the bra having a lacy finish on the sides, which included embellished detailing on the bra which brought to prominence the “Tribal” essence Rihanna suggested in her brief. Zainab created an cut away Peacock Jacket with detailing on the cuffs which was fabulously crafted to create this wonderful ensemble!!
Rihanna later removed the Peacock beauty during her performance and showed the fringing on the back of the bra top, and the embellished detailing on the bra, and lace detail on the pants.
This is Zainab the winner & a model whom wore the outfit to present to Rihanna!! Congratulations again Zainab Looking forward to seeing your collection very soon!