Michael Costello has costumed many famous celebrities and the designer’s biggest fan got the chance to get dressed by him.
Adalia who is 13 years old is suffering progeria, a rare genetic condition that gives her a smaller build. The teen loves fashionable outfits like everyone else and Costello surprised Adalia with a pair of custom-made dresses for her 13th birthday party in an Instagram video.
Michael wrote: ‘’People always ask me who my favorite celebrity is to dress, and I always struggle thinking of a name.
For me, the most rewarding part of it all is how my dress makes them FEEL. When someone wears Michael Costello, I want them to feel beautiful, confident, and absolutely fearless! Thank you so much @adalia06 for giving me the chance to dress you! When I first met you, your bright smile and warm heart brought so much joy.
You’ve inspired me to create and reminded me of the reason why I got started in the first place. Thank you for just being you wishing you a very happy birthday.’’
The clip shows Adalia unwraps the gift from Costello and says “Oh my god, “This is Michael Costello.”
“I’m having a moment,” she adds.
Another video shows Adalia is enjoying and showing off her dance moves in the dress.
“They are so perfect and I even want to wear them while I’m just at home!” Adalia wrote in the Instagram caption of a post showing her opening the present. “Michael Costello you did such an amazing job making everything I wish you can make all my clothes! I love you so so so much and I send you a million hugs.”
Adalia has more than 13 million Facebook followers and nearly 2.5 million YouTube subscribers. She first met Michael several months ago in Austin, Texas, after she heard he was in town.
“It was the cutest. She was so adorable and so sweet,” he says of their initial meeting. “She’s so tiny that you instantly think she’s going to be like a baby, and you want to baby her. But I didn’t realize that she’s 13 years old, and she’s like any other savvy 13-year-old. She was a little sassy!”
“She said she loves J. Lo, and anything that J. Lo wears she likes to wear, and she loves flowy fabrics and sparkles and I said, ‘Okay, you’re my ideal client. You are the Michael Costello girl.’”
“Knowing that we have the capability to make something for them and to celebrate them and to make them feel good about themselves… I just wanted to make her birthday dreams come true,” he says.
“I feel like I’ve dressed everyone.
It’s an incredible milestone for my career. I feel like I’ve done so much and I’ve been blessed so much, and now what I really want to do is start meeting more people like Adalia… What’s it to me? A couple of days on the sewing machine? A few hundred dollars’ worth of fabric and time, just to make someone else’s dream come true.
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