As an artist with a niche talent for recreating runway and red carpet looks, Angelica Hicks knew she could DIY Zendaya's Louis Vuitton outfit from Paris Fashion Week. So, the Brooklyn-based Brit borrowed her boyfriend's tuxedo jacket, scrunched a set of bedsheets into a bubble skirt identical to Z's, and ripped the white 'We Heart Our Customers' cover off her dry cleaning to strategically use it as lapels. A red Coca-Cola label became a brooch, and a black plastic bag from last night's Chinese takeout turned into a designer handbag. The pièce de résistance, in Hicks's opinion, was the crocodile Haribo gummy flipped marshmallow side up—a perfect interpretation of the white button on Zendaya's blazer.
"I found the Haribo crocodiles at the deli check-out when I was buying the Coke [to use as the Louis Vuitton brooch]," the social media superstar says over the phone. "I had this light bulb moment and just knew the candies were the perfect final touch. That ah-ha moment doesn't come every time, but when it does, it's extremely satisfying, and it's [usually] when I [start to] think, 'Oh shit—this look might pop off."
