DIY BALENCIAGA INSPIRED RUFFLE SKIRT

15th January 2013

One of my absolute favourite collections from the coming SS13 season was Balenciaga, I was so incredibly taken with the monotones, cropped silhouettes, exaggerated ruffles and dip hemmed skirts, not to mention the stacked gold rings (get thee to the hardware store!). Straight away I knew the collection would be the inspiration for one of my projects this year. I decided to try my hand at the monotone ruffled hem skirts, reworking a simple black skirt I picked up in a thrift store by adding a black and white ruffled asymmetric hem. Read on to see how to make your own.
DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt
DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt

This was the runway inspiration, I decided to go for a white ruffle lined with black as opposed to the black ruffle lined with white seen on the runway – feel free to mix it up depending on what you like.

DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt

You need: 
- A simple black skirt
- 1m (approx 1 yard) of white cotton fabric
- 1m (approx 1 yard) of black cotton fabric
- Dressmakers Scissors
- Black and white thread
- A Sewing machine
- Measuring tape
- Pins

DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt

How to:
1. Cut your skirt into an asymmetric style (shorter on one side than the other). You can go quite short of the shorter edge (almost to your underwear line) because you are going to be adding the ruffled piece which will cover you.

DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt

2. Take your measuring tape and measure the edge of the asymmetric hem of the skirt all the way around.

DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt

3. Using the method I showed you here in the fluted hem skirt tutorial, create two circular hem pieces  in both black and white.

DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt

4. Pin the two black and white ruffled hem pieces together.

DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt

5. Sew the two together on the outside edge.

DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt

6. Turn inside out and the iron flat.

DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt

7. Pin the inner edge of the donut to the skirt with the white on the outside and the black on the inside (or vise versus if you perfer).

DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt

8. Sew along the hem and then sew along the edge with the zig zag stitch to reduce fraying.

DIY Balenciaga Skirt
Voila! Get ready to party all night long in this monotone ensemble.
DIY Balenciaga ss13 Ruffle Skirt
Wearing: DIY Skirt, H&M white top, Coach Watch, Tony Bianco Heels, Mac ‘Lady Danger’ Lipstick, Plukka Ring, Pendant necklace bought in Paris

Outfit photos by Su Ann Tan