DIY Your Own Designer Clothes at Home

3 Materials

$55

1 Hour

Easy

I was thinking about my next fashion DIY and I knew I wanted to add some designer style pieces to my closet. I decided to get creative and upgrade some old clothes into the most amazing Louis Vuitton and Gucci style pieces. All I needed was a stencil and some fabric spray paint and I was able to transform an old T-shirt and vest into fashion-forward closet favorites. If you want to learn the ins and outs of this incredible DIY, my tutorial is for you! Follow my simple step-by-step guide and get started on making your own designer style clothes.

Tools and materials:

Louis Vuitton cake stencil
Gucci cake stencil
Fabric spray paint

DIY designer clothing

Tape the pieces

For this super-fun DIY project, I decided to work on an old towel in the garage to avoid any serious mess. I started by laying tape over parts of the cap and sweater that I didn’t want to get any spray paint on.

Spray the clothes

Spray paint the clothes

Next, I placed my Gucci stencil over the cap and started spraying. I chose to use dark spray paint but feel free to get creative with your colors to suit your aesthetic. I then placed my Louis Vuitton stencil over the grey sweater and sprayed using the white paint. I quickly realized that this technique wasn’t working. The white spray hardly showed and the brown spray smudged from the stencil moving around.

Spray from a distance

It was time to try again and I hoped that the 3rd time would be a charm. I laid my vest down and taped all around the pocket. This time I just wanted to add the Gucci design to the front of the pocket. I held down the stencil and sprayed from a little further than I had before, using the brown paint. I loved how it turned out so I decided to do the other pocket as well.

Add paint smudges

To add a little bit of a distressed look to my vest, I sprayed some of the brown paint on a piece of cardboard, put my glove in the paint, and then used the glove to dab some of the paint onto the vest. This definitely gave my vest a grungy, vintage look!

DIY designer t-shirt

Feeling more confident with my spray painting skills, I grabbed an old T-shirt and got to work on adding a Louis Vuitton design to it. I tried to keep the pattern as close as possible but I actually love how imperfect it turned out. The T was totally transformed into a perfectly imperfect piece!