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" Hello Seventeen readers! Lily from Style Council here. So I&amp;#039;ve been tracking lots of the trends for Spring/Summer 2012, watching the New York Fashion Week shows online. The Internet makes thingsso easy-I was able to watch shows from both the top designers as well as the newcomers to the industry. One of the shows that I really fell in love with was the Band Of Outsiders collection. It was edgy with a romantic flare, featuring raw, unfinished hems and stark colors, but in flirty cuts. I think all the pieces are really wearable and beautiful! I immediately wanted to try to recreate a look.  It was a really easy outfit to pull together\u2014I went to Goodwill and found a long, simple black dress with a semi-full skirt. I cut the dress just above the knee, purposely cutting the hem in a jagged uneven way so that one side would be longer than the other. I then took the bottom half of the dress that I just cut off and gathered it around my waist and belted it underneath, kind of like a skirt! You could also gather and sew it to the dress at the waist (on the inside). This was a really simple DIY project\u2014it&amp;#039;s amazing how easily you can transform a drab garment into something really fun and current. To finish the outfit, I wore my strappy Jeffery Campbell platform heels, and topped it off with a vintage hat! There you have it, an easy DIY project for an cutting-edge runway look! xoxo Lily More Style Council Exclusives!  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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