Fashion Shows

Fashion Shows play an important role in Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3 and can increase the amount of customers that visit your Boutique. You have the opportunity to become a model and walk the catwalk in a number of different themed shows. During the main story line of the game, you will need to hold a number of fashion shows to complete the main story line and unlock new features in the game.

Visit Beaumonde Arena at Taylor Arcade to hold a fashion show. When you enter the Arena, you will be greeted by Ricky who is in charge of managing the fashion shows. A screen will appear with the following options: Choose A Theme, Choose A Venue, View Ticket Sales and Open The Fashion Show.

There are a number of things you must complete before the fashion show begins. First, you must choose a theme and venue. You are unable to select Open The Fashion Show until you choose a theme and venue and all tickets are sold. 

The first step is to select a theme. Different themes are available throughout the year and range from themes such as seasons, Halloween, tea parties and weather. Select the Choose A Theme option and the following screen will appear.

These six symbols represent the six categories that the themes fall under. The symbols DO NOT represent a specific style or image of clothing as multiple styles fall into each category. The six symbols represent the following categories:

• Cute (Red Heart)
• Cool (Grey Small Sprite)
• Fun (Orange Bubbles)
• Grown-Up (Purple Rose)
• Unique (Rainbow Star)
• Individual (Blue Icon) 

The game does not give you hints at what specific style will fit the theme and bases your final score on how well your outfit, hairstyle and makeup matches the theme. Multiple styles fall under each category and you need to pick the one you feel best matches the theme. Here is a guide on what styles belong to each category (please note that this is a rough guide based on experiments conducted and other players may have found outfits they created fitted into these categories):

• Cute - Girly, Baby-Doll, Lively and Preppy.
• Cool - Bold, Rock, Basic and Sporty.
• Fun - Lively, Sporty and Psychedelic.
• Grown-Up - Feminine, Chic, Bold, Basic and Preppy. 
• Unique - Psychedelic, Boho, Eastern, Gothic, Rock and Chic.
• Individual - Choose whatever style you wish.

Here is an example of a fashion show theme that falls under the Unique category. You will notice how the theme gives no clue on what the specific style is for the fashion show and you can interpret it how you wish.

Next you need to choose a venue for the fashion show. Select the Choose A Venue icon and you will be presented with five options. Select the one you thinks fits the theme best.

Now you need to sell tickets to the fashion show. When you serve customers at your Boutique, the Beautician or Hair Salon, they will occasionally be rewarded with tickets to the fashion show once they pay you for the service.

Ricky will keep you up to date on how ticket sales are coming along and send you messages on the progress. You can select the View Tickets Sales option at Beaumonde Arena to see how many tickets you have sold.

Models from the fashion show may visit your Boutique requesting an outfit for the show. This is a good opportunity to try and guess what style may match the theme. The models will not give you a hint at what style they are after but you can use the Take A Look option to take three turns to guess. Many players have stated that they never have models visit their Boutique or have them visit all the time. It seems to be random for when they appear at your Boutique. 

Once you have sold enough tickets, Ricky will send you a message saying the fashion show is ready to start. You do not need to head over to Beaumonde Arena straight away, the fashion show is available to start whenever you like. When you exit out of the shop you are currently in, Laurie will greet you and remind you to head over to Beaumonde Arena when you are ready.

Now it's time to start the fashion show! Select the Open The Fashion Show option to begin.

You now need to select an outfit, hairstyle and make-up set to wear in the fashion show. You will receive score out of five based on how well your overall outfit fits the theme of the show. It is quite difficult to get a five star rating as there is no one set outfit to match the theme perfectly. It all depends on what items you have in personal wardrobe and choosing a hairstyle or make-up set to match. 

The items you have available for the outfit are the ones you have in your personal wardrobe (every single item you have purchased at the Exhibition Hall, personal designs, DLC and amiibo items). You can only choose from the hairstyles available in the hairstyle portfolio and the make-up sets available in your make-up box. Here is the outfit I created for this fashion show and I focused on using Psychedelic items. However, even though this outfit had all items that fell under the psychedelic style, they were from different brands which hurt the overall score of the outfit.

My Kyary Pamyu Pamyu inspired outfit for the fashion show.

Once you are happy with your outfit, select the OK button and you will be greeted by Laurie and one of the models who will make a remark about the style of your outfit. 

Next, it's your turn on the catwalk. Once you are on the stage, the game will display the following options on the bottom screen of the 3DS. The three icons on the left are poses you can make and the three icons on the right are sparkles you can add to your character. Each stage has different poses and sparkle effects. The game allows you to take screenshots during the fashion show.

The three poses available on this stage.

Once the fashion show is complete, the game will inform you that posters around the city have changed and will now display your final pose from the fashion show. The game will now award you with a score out of five on how well your overall outfit matches the theme. My outfit was awarded a score of three stars. If you have chosen the Individual theme option, the game will rank your outfit based on different themes such as cute, unique and cool. For information on a Five Star outfit, please refer to this guide.

Characters from the game will greet you after the show and tell you what a great job you did. They will comment on the aspect of your outfit they liked the most and request you give them the same style (hardly ever happens though, just a programmed conversation). Ricky will compliment on how well the show went and say someone brought you a miniature as a gift.

Customers will now race to your Boutique to request an outfit based on the style you wore at the fashion show. Fashion shows are a great way to attract customers to your Boutique who like a certain style. For example, if you wear a Chic outfit in a fashion show, the customers that visit your Boutique will be requesting a chic outfit and will spend up to $17,000 on an outfit. 

Now you can start planning for your next fashion show! Head back to Beaumonde Arena to select a new theme and venue. You can complete in the same show again if you wish to try getting a better score. Tickets for the next show will sell even if you do not choose a new theme and venue straight away.

For further information on outfits that have won five stars, please visit the following guides:

• Five Star Outfit - Girly Theme
• Five Star Outfit - Cool Theme
• Five Star Outfit - Fun Theme
• Five Star Outfit - Grown-Up Theme
• Five Star Outfit - Unique Theme

Here are some examples of scores from fashion shows in Style Boutique 2/Style Savvy 3.