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she says. Before launching Rebel
laughs, “I obviously wash everything
Soul, Stybel was illustrating canvas
extremely well.
sneakers, like Converse and Vans,
“[The garments] kind of pick each
other. I’ll come home with things and with fabric pens. After making some
for bar and bat mitzvahs, she
think ‘These were meant to be
ABOVE:
signed up for a boutique show
together.’ It sounds silly, but I
Abby Stybel at Temple Israel in order to
get so excited when I combine
in her home
promote her shoes last spring.
[pieces] that are so perfect.”
studio.
“I decided I needed something
After pairing the pieces, she
to sell on the spot. The shoes
cuts up the shirts, sews them
are all custom and have to be pre-
together and embellishes them with
ordered. I wanted to come up with
studs and patches. Everything is
something for people to buy right
done by hand and out of her West
there,” she says. “I started making
Bloomfield home. Since every gar-
these shirts, and there was such a
ment Stybel employs is upcycled,
huge response. No one even really
Rebel Soul is an environmentally
looked at my shoes! I realized it’s all
friendly and sustainable line. (She
about the clothing. So, I thought, ‘OK,
also will do shows for special causes,
I’ve got something here.’”
like one she recently was part of
The first garment made with the
to benefit Jewish Hospice and
Rebel Soul principle and process was
Chaplaincy Network.)
a military jacket, which Stybel paired
For custom orders, she may shop
with a hamsa T-shirt on the back.
on eBay to find what someone is
Her personal style, a mix of boho
looking for. “I’d love to get into more
and hippy with a more traditional
custom work,” she says. “I think
edge — which Stybel says is similar
people have piles of things in their
to Mila Kunis’ character in the movie
closets they don’t want to get rid of,
Bad Moms — also best personifies
but don’t really wear. It’s therapeutic
the Rebel Soul customer.
to make these garments.”
“She is fed up with her job, and
Although she has always loved
frustrated with life, and she just
fashion, it’s not what Stybel studied
wants to let go a little,” Stybel says
or imagined she would be doing
of the character. “But since she has
with her life. Having been pre-med
responsibilities, she can’t drop out
in college, she decided she didn’t
of the world completely.” Embodying
want to be a doctor and went back
the balance between the serious
to art school instead. After studying
graphic design at Detroit’s College for adult exterior and the funky spirit
within, Stybel’s Rebel Soul Apparel is
Creative Studies, she worked in the
a fresh, fun way to dust off those old
field for several years before having
shirts — and the cobwebs that have
her kids, who are now 6 and 8.
collected on your rebellious soul. •
“I didn’t ever think I’d find myself
in the fashion industry, career-wise,”

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