ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Are you going to stick with doing women's wear?
JERELL SCOTT: I actually started doing men's wear. Now I'm going to be gravitating more towards women's wear, because that's what people are more familiar with now, with me.
And who are those women who'll wear your designs? Are they young?
Well, my clothes are very expressive. I really design clothes to help people express who they are. You wear one of my pieces, it's like a conversation piece. People will come up to you, and you will get complimented. And I think that when you get complimented, you feel better about yourself. And when you're buying dresses at this price...you're certainly going to get that with my work.
So, to go back to the wedding dress. At the show, when that came down, everyone was kind of staring at the breast cups that slouched out. Explain that. It almost seemed like it wasn't done, you know what I mean?
Oh, it was certainly done. God, that dress took forever. I wanted to make something that would be kind of rich and luxurious, yet kind of organic. I didn't want anything that felt too structured. But I mean, with a strapless dress, the thing weighs like 20 pounds, in order for something like that to technically work — there was a lot of construction in that garment.
Yeah, it had to stay up somehow. How did it stay up?
It was like a totally bone bustier up there that was supporting that. I loved it. It's not to everyone's taste — not everyone wants the jeweled cups, but most people do. I've done a lot of stuff for Saudi royalty, and I like opulence. It's not for every woman, they're not gonna be running out to the bank or picking up the kids in this. But for me, especially a wedding dress, that's a woman's fantasy moment. If there's ever an appropriate time to wear jeweled cups, it's that day.
In your Bryant Park show, you didn't put the branch of orchids in her hair. Why not?
Actually, I liked my flowers. I was originally going to have orchids in the hair throughout the whole collection. But when I wasn't in the top three, I kind of got second pickings at the models. I love most of the girls I got, but a lot of them had really short hair, so I ended up going with this sort of androgynous coif, and there was no need for orchids in a boy cut. I was going to do this whole '40s wave thing, and if I had done that, you would have seen the orchids in the final look. But because I opted to completely not even do hair, it didn't really work.
And Kenley does all the stuff in the hair anyway, so you wouldn't want to do that.
Yeah, I wasn't going to have any pigeon wings in there!
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