'Fashion Star' Winner Hunter Bell gives us the scoop behind-the-scenes

  Fashion Star season two winner Hunter Bell, the designer of ready-to-wear Hunter Dixon, a native of South Carolina, but its sensitivity (and the Express mode, as they answered our questions no taboos!) Is certainly 100 percent in New York. We caught up with the University of Alabama graduate lecture on his experiences at the NBC fashion reality, its brand, and where she hopes to go from here.

StyleBistro: Congratulations on your victory Fashion Star! How did you feel when they called your name as the winner of this year?

Hunter Bell: It was a phenomenal experience. I kept telling myself to race with endurance and actually crossed the finish line seriously. It is six weeks, seven days a week, and it's endurance. You are up early in the morning and work until late at night. You have less than two days to complete a challenge before you are on another. They are constantly juggling and struggling emotions. You are dealing with a lot. So when she was called my name, it was as if I had crossed a finish line was. I did it. I ran the race.

StyleBistro: As a designer, a commercial success, your clothes in more than 200 boutiques around the world and celebrities including Rose Byrne, Sophia Bush and Emma Roberts are already stored fans, why do you want to Fashion Star?

Hunter Bell: We had success, and I was in Saks, I had my name on the wall of the Saks and all the press and all the celebrities. We had reached a point where we were not properly activated, and the company simply did not work. We all sales, we simply do not have the capital to support sales. He created a lot of problems for me in 2012, at which point I was exhausted and I started to think if this company does not want to be in this world, I gave it a good swirl, but don 'capital is not easy there is, then we may need to close the deal. I wondered what to do when the show contacted me. I was really in a state of vulnerability and confusion, and she said to me: "Here is a great opportunity for you There could not be a reasonable time..

StyleBistro: What happened to your business because you were in the show?

Hunter Bell: Certainly recognition. Certainly people who have known the brand, are now able to connect with the brand on a deeper level. I am very serious about the show, I was not on the show to become famous or to drama. I was really on the show to work hard, to tell my story, and really challenge me. It was an opportunity to really grow. I think that resonates with people. And I think people like the clothes because they are not hard to understand. There are certainly things that are portable. I think the story has resonance with people.

StyleBistro: What is the process of recording how? Six weeks!

Hunter Bell: You mean nothing to you! You show up and you arrive. There is no scenario, no, "This is what we do tomorrow., If you knew what you do tomorrow, your reaction would not be true. I'm a planner in my business and my life and that any form of calendar window to take? There is a unique experience.

StyleBistro: Is that all participants to live together?

Hunter Bell: We stayed in a hotel, and we all have our own hotel room. The cool thing is that we., The tools and resources that we needed Before we arrived, they contacted us and asked what kind of pens and what kind of sketchbook we wanted. They are not trying to shoot you, gave us all the tools and resources to enable us to be successful.


StyleBistro: How do you make your work from other candidates?

Hunter Bell: This is how to globally. You have to keep that in mind and sometimes competitors fought with him. I have two sisters and four cousins, and we are all shaped differently and have different aesthetics. My younger sister is 26 years old and bohemian. My older sister is a working mother. And that's just to understand that there are different shapes and sizes, the price level of the difference. It is certainly a time to be creative, and it is certainly a time to pull back and say: This is the mass appeal to the masses.

StyleBistro: you Nanette Lepore and Rebecca Taylor interned and then worked for Jones Apparel Group and Vineyard Vines. As all of these iconic American brands influence your work today?

Hunter Bell: Well, they are all so different. When I arrived in New York a decade ago, I was basically wearing a bright yellow umbrella and wearing a dress. Well, I wear black from head to foot all day. Nanette Lepore has certainly taught me girly, feminine world, which I loved. During my second internship at Rebecca Taylor, I was sitting in a matching 1 day and the sun went down and I had tears in my eyes. This was the moment when I knew I wanted to have a clothing line in New York. Jones Apparel Group is a great company. Work he taught me a lot about communication in China and abroad, how. Using plants such as mass production to communicate Vineyard Vines has taught me the technical design.

StyleBistro: What advice would you a designer who thinks about the competition, in a kind of reality show?

Hunter Bell: You know, I do not regret it, but my personality because I'm a serious person, but I'm so much fun I'm not as serious as I am in the show. I would balance the two. Definitely head down and come to the show to work hard and very focused, but do not neglect to have fun and have moments. It's a bit like when you get married and people ask what you do not forget on your wedding day, take a step back and look. Make sure you will enjoy it also because it is a unique opportunity in life.

This is my passion. I do not want to be rich and famous. I just want to create jobs and the people who are dedicated to me now.