Windlight Magazine-March 2016 Issue Volume 2, Issue 3 | Page 172

Every now and again a designer emerges who truly does blend extraordinary fashion with real ability as an artist. One such is Zib Scaggs, owner and designer of the very successful brand Zibska. For years now Zib's extraordinary jewelry, makeup, hair and clothing have delighted and inspired fashionistas, stylists and models around the grid. Not all though are aware of just what an accomplished graphic artist she is too. I was lucky enough to interview Zib for Windlight Magazine, and get a glimpse into her creative world.. ELEESEREN: Hi Zib, its so nice to meet you and be able to ask you a few questions about your art and your designing. Zibska is huge, well known and very respected brand in SL Fashion, can you tell me a little about how Zibska started, and how you have developed over the years? base would wear were drastically different. I do not create based on what will sell, what is hot or the latest trend, I have always left it to the creative muse, sudden inspiration, whim. I did not want to change the reasons behind my designing, which would inevitably lead to burnout, so I decided to close the in-world Zibware locations, regroup and see where the new adventure would take me, a month later Zibska was opened. ELESEREN: And Zibska is one of my favorite shops! May I ask, when you design, what inspires you, how do you come up with your ideas? ZIB: Much of it comes from nature, the mathematical precision combined with the seemingly random patterns one finds in the world. It could be the play of light and shadow on the buildings outside, crystalline formations or the dance of plumage on a bird of ZIB: I started creating clothing in paradise. Sometimes I will work off SL early 2007 for myself and friends a random sketch from my kiddo, or then launched the Zibware brand a misunderstood turn of words which focused mainly on swimwear which causes one to ponder a and club wear. Late 2010 I had moment. More often than not it is realized what I was designing and simply a matter of ‘what if’, that wearing and what my customer combined with Second Life’s lack of 172