Orly Shani

Orly Shani is an American Fashion Designer. Shani was featured in the hit show Fashion Star and finished in fourth place.

Personal Life
Orly Shani had grown up in Los Angeles, Calabasas. In high school Shani would always look through magazines for her love of fashion. She would always want to have these fabulous looks but for less bang for her buck. To imitate these looks, what she would do was go to the local thrifts store, and purchase a couple of items. Then later transform them into wonderful masterpieces. From there Orly has taken a couple of pattern classes, she quickly realized how much she actually loved fashion. It was not the technical side of fashion that she loved but it was more of the business and creative thinking of fashion. Once turning 19 she had made the move over to New York City. Orly Shani is best known for her specialization of comfy and convertible fashion.

Design aesthetics
Orly Shani’s clothing always had a Convertible element to them. She believed in having at least two different looks from one piece of clothing. Her clothing had a very girly yet classy type of look. One of her best-known looks was her convertible black mini skirt. One way to wear this was as a fitted black miniskirt, a quick zipper away to transform this mini skirt to a loose flowing skirt. This would be considered the second look, as this skirt would be considered a classy day to evening look.

Business
Orly Shani’s very first business was Orly Couture. This was a one of a kind vintage style series of clothing. She had started this business when she was 21 years of age. Her inspiration for this line came from her old high school days of modernizing clothing from thrift store.

Later on in 2010, Shani along with a couple of friends had started a new line called tuc+wes. Tuc+wes still features these convertible styles of clothing but as a brighter and more comfortable everyday wear.

Fashion Star
Orly was featured in the hit show Fashion Star. Although she did not win, she came in fourth place overall. She made $430,000 over eight weeks before she had been eliminated. The very first episode had introduced her convertible style featuring that black mini skirt as mentioned before.

Other
It is not easy for designer to make it now a days, Orly had to pick up another job as a bartender, With this job she is able to secure her stay in New York City and allows her to continue following her dreams of becoming a Fashion Designer.