Seen on FM-Style: When The Sun Goes Down

Here we are back again with the review of the final of Cycle 14, the first Team Cycle ever hosted (that I know of). If you're up to date with us in Stardoll, you may have noticed that Cycle 15 is already accepting applications. If you didn't know that, now you know, so don't wait any longer and join the stardoll club: FM-Style, and once in there... If you think you have what it takes to be a part of the competition, APPLY on the topic.

Cycle 15 is a cycle to celebrate the 5th Anniversary  of the club. It's amazing (and a bit terrfying) how fast time goes by. As we have done a huge amount of different tasks, for this celebration (besides sponsoring the cycle ourselves) we are taking one task for each cycle that we've done before. Those tasks are our favorites or the ones that our club members suggested. There will be 16 contestants chosen for this Cycle and will last if everything goes right until the end of June.

That being said...

Welcome to the first ever #TeamCycle !

Task 10: When The Sun Goes Down (FINAL)
So, in case you haven’t noticed, we’re in the final. There’s a theme for this final but this theme it’s quite open, the concept you go for and creativity have a lot of importance in this task, so I would recommend putting a lot of though in what’s behind the final picture you deliver before creating the outfits.

That said, the theme and title of this task is “When the sun goes down”, meaning you have to create outfits related to the world of the night. As you can see there are a lot of possible approaches: party, concerts, drugs, galas and events, night jobs, etc. As a team you have to decide what are you going to do about it (a story behind the picture, everybody representing the same aspect, each team member representing a different thing all related to the theme…). Complete freedom, but make sure it’s cool, it has a meaning and that meaning is understandable. A proper photoshoot with all the prep and ideas behind it included.

Minimum outfits: 2 (1 each team member)

Maximum outfits: 6 (3 each team member)

Inspiration Album: 

For us, this task required being original and delivering something different at the same time that fashion forward and even a bit editorial-ish (just look at the picture from the inspo). Usually, inspiration albums are not just picture to get you inspired but something similar to what are we looking for. We were really looking forward for the final entries of this two powerful teams that were SHADES and Sarcasm. And what they were going to do was what was going to be decisive in who will win the cycle and get crowned as THE winning team. 

Those were the entries from the finalists with the score they got next to their name:

1. SHADES - 8.81

2.  Sarcasm. - 7.50

SHADES were super original with the theme and went for representing drugs that are usually consumed at night. Each member of shades created 3 outfits, delivering the maximum amount of outfits allowed, and their creations represented the stages of the consumption of two different drugs. Patricia (ManiakPupili) based her outfits on LSD and Fede (FedericoMosi) on cocaine.
On the other team, Sarcasm.'s theme was more simple, representing a squad going out. Outfits were very modern and well put together, but I think the simplicity of the theme behind it compared to all the work and creativity that SHADES delivered was what made that SHADES were declared winners of Cycle 14!

This was a super fun cycle to watch but more difficult to organize. We had to create a new figure, the coach, that was handling various teams to help teams to deliver the final entry giving advice without interfering and having in mind the deadlines. They had to make sure their teams were getting along fine and working on the tasks since the beginning, as when you work in a group you can't depend only on yourself and do it last minute. Despite the nerves and stress that this cycle cause, specially to contestants (we seriously apologized for that), I think it has showed how powerful team outfits are and that even if it is a bit hard at the beginning, working in teams can increase the creativity.

We already gave huge thanks to everyone involved in this cycle, whether you've been a contestants, judge, coach or even if you just followed the cycle. THANK YOU! FM-Style would not be happening if there weren't people committed to it. 

Don't forget to join FM-Style if you haven't yet! 🖤
And remember... Applications for Cycle 15 are open !!