desymbol: Artist Starts Creating Colorful Wedding Dresses After Her “Fire” Wedding Gown Goes Viral

Taylor Ann Linko is a San Diego-based artist whose dip-dyed wedding gown went viral a few years back. The woman always had an artistic touch and dreamt of becoming an artist ever since elementary school. Yet despite this, she struggled for years trying out many different art forms while looking for her niche. And it was her magical dress that finally helped her find her calling. Nowadays Taylor upcycles old wedding gowns by giving them stunning colorful makeovers and you’ll probably want one for your wedding!

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Taylor Ann Linko’s incredible “Fire” wedding dress went viral a few years back

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When planning her wedding, Taylor knew that a simple white dress just wasn’t going to cut it. She went dress hunting and eventually found a beautiful “Savoy’s Bellezza” that she decided to customize by painting it with an airbrush.

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The artist finished the dress a week before her wedding and the outcome was absolutely stunning. A few months after the wedding, a UK gossip blog shared some pictures of her colorful dress and it went viral almost immediately. In a recent interview with Bored Panda, Taylor said that it was her dress going viral that got her into painting wedding dresses. She says she has always been a very colorful artist and wanted to incorporate her passion for color into her wedding.

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Soon after the pictures went viral, numerous people contacted Taylor to paint their dresses, and eventually, she agreed. The artist then rented a studio and started the business of wedding dress painting and finally made her dream of becoming a full-time artist a reality. And even though it was a little slow at first, in the end, it was all worth it.