The Quick Bubble Skirt Hack Inspired by Louis Vuitton Skirt
In the September issue of ELLE Canada, Louis Vuitton featured a bubble skirt on several pages in the magazine. I was inspired by this design once I found a similar skirt that I knew I could DIY and create my own version of this bubble skirt. It’s not identical, but I am still happy with the outcome. The material they featured was a stiff jean cotton look and my find was a jersey cotton so lighter in weight. Below are the steps I took to get a similar look.
- Find a skirt that is ankle length so you have extra material to work with similar to mine below.
- Sew a 1 inch seem from 16 inches down from the waist. I already had a seam, but I added to that.
This is where your elastic will slide through so ensure it’s wide enough for your elastic and leave an opening at the end. I used 1/2 inch elastic. - Cut elastic the same length as the width of your skirt where you sewed the seam along. Mine was approximately 36 inches in length.
- Run the elastic through your seam using a safety pin at the beginning of the elastic to pull through and along seam.
- Once you’ve reached the end, sew the ends together, ensuring a tight stitch several times over and don’t forget to remove the safety pin.
- Finish sewing along the seam to close the elastic in.
- Cut extra material same width around as your skirt, leaving 1 inch for final seam. This will be the inside panelling. I just used leftover jersey fabric I already owned. It will not be shown so I was not being too picky with the colour.
- Sew ends together, inside out to create the panel. Keep inside out.
- Turn the skirt inside out and fold bottom of skirt up towards the waist. The seam where elastic is should be hidden inside.
- Place the panel around the bottom of the skirt inside out.
- Sew the top of the panel to the bottom of the skirt which is flipped up towards the waist.
- Turn panel up towards the waist. The skirt should now be inside the panel and the ends of the panel and waist of skirt should be touching.
- Sew along the waist seam to close the panel and skirt together. I used the same seam as the current waist to leave the raw edge out.
This is probably confusing, but if you know how to sew you should understand from the pictures what I did. It was just like sewing lining in a skirt, but my lining was the jersey material.
The ELLE Canada September 2021 Issue where I saw the Louis Vuitton Skirt. Below right Louis Vuitton jean bubble skirt. My final version of the bubble skirt worn 2 ways.
Outfit Details
Bubble Skirt: @civico51official @marshallscanada
MK Sweater & Sweatshirt: @michaelkors
Knee-High Boots: @karllagerfield
I hope this inspires you to be more creative when sewing and look for ways to hack what you already own into something amazing that you will love to wear! If you don’t sew, maybe this will interest you to take up sewing classes. Good Luck fashionistas xo.
Check out my instagram account where I posted the video and the REEL of the final skirt @toniintaffeta https://www.instagram.com/toniintaffeta/