Among many a fashionista’s fantasies is to raid her style idols’ closets. But what happens if the closet is the size of an entire warehouse?
We head downtown to visit Galina Sobolev, the beautiful Russian-born designer behind the label SINGLE. SINGLE has made celebrities look beautiful since 2002, with the likes of Eva Longoria Parker, Jennifer Lopez, Fergie, Jennifer Love Hewitt and many other red-hot young Hollywood stars decorating this label.
With an entire SINGLE warehouse as our playground, we asked stylist Mike Sam to dress up voluptuous beauty Hannah Montana star Romi Dames to see what kind of magic results from whom Romi calls her fairy godstylist. The full interview can be viewed on our stylecritics channel on the upper right hand of this page or click here.

The Warehouse of SINGLE

Stylist Mike Sam and SINGLE’s Galina Sobolev

Galina on her love for prints and colors: “I love prints and I love color and I want to bring that feeling of happiness to a lot of the people, to the women that wear my dresses. And also I try to really encourage the celebrities to wear our signature prints. When they are photographed - a lot of people tend to kind of wear solids - the camera is instantly drawn to them. So what I find is that when the celebrity wears a SINGLE dress, they get so much more press and therefore it’s a kind of recognizable, recognition that comes both ways.”

Romi loved the warehouse. Being there makes her feel “like a kid in the candy store.”
On SINGLE clothes: “I love their clothes. The thing that I love about SINGLE is like there are so many different looks, I feel there is something appropriate for every occasion.

Galina sketches her ideas on what would look fabulous on Romi.

Galina describes this royal blue dress as very sophisticated, very refined and would look great on Romi.

Mike on why he chose this dress for Romi: “She has the ideal body. Very Marilyn Monroe body.”
Romi loves this dress so much it makes her want to call for a power meeting and say, “alright, boys, lay your cards on the table.”

This is what Galina calls the sexy secretary look. The skirt is made of menswear fabric to give it a little masculine touch.

Mike loves the color and cut of this dress but for Romi, its stylish and playful vibe.

This gray tank with tiered silk skirt and a gorgeous handmade necklace is what Galina calls the Romi Dames dress.

“It accentuates everything that we need to accentuate. I love the jewel details,” on why Mike picked this third dress for Romi.
Romi channels Gossip girl: “This dress totally reminds me of Gossip Girl, like, I want to be in New York City. I want to like, lunch at a fabulous place and go for cocktails!”

I didn’t want to leave the warehouse without my picks. This orange belted tunic which won’t come out until January didn’t come in my size but that didn’t stop me from trying it on. I looooove it!

Since this also didn’t come in my size, it required a few tricks from Mike and voila! - a cute sequined purplicious number for me that comes with a sexy back. I couldn’t take my eyes off it. Seriously.

My last pick and certainly not the least, is this floral maxi dress which was worn by Fergie earlier this year. For this interview, Galina wore this dress and added a large chunky belt for a fabulous touch.

At the 2009 Ivy Bethune Tri-Union Diversity Awards, ROmi wore a cute SINGLE dress.

Romi wore this fun pink ruffled top by SINGLE at the launch party of CAPCOM’s Street Fighter IV.

Julia Kudryavtseva of Hollywood Couture Russia, Galina Sobolev and Romi Dames. All these beautiful women are wearing SINGLE.
We had Romi interview Julia as she sells SINGLE in their fabulous Hollywood Couture boutique on St. Petersburg (think Rodeo Drive in Russia). Check out Romi’s interview here.
Catch Galina Sobolev on ‘Launch My Line’ premiering WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 AT 10 PM ET/PT on Bravo.
Romi described the warehouse experience perfectly, “like a kid in a candy store,” only that this is a case of being like a kid left with friends in the Wonka candy factory, and you either want to live in it forever or take everything home.


