Meet the Designer Behind Hakkasan's Hot Cocktail Uniforms

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• Barbara Bell [Photo: Vegas Magazine]
• Hakkasan sketch
• Hakkasan servers in Barbara Bell's uniforms
• Hakkasan sketch
• Barbara Bell sketch of a Hakkasan nightclub uniform
• And the real thing
• FIVE50 Pizza Bar sketch
• FIVE50 Pizza Bar sketch
• FIVE50 Pizza Bar sketch
• FIVE50 Pizza Bar sketch

Get the inside skinny on Barbara Bell, the designer behind uniforms at some of Las Vegas' top restaurants. She created the looks at Hakkasan, FIVE50 Pizza Bar, cocktail servers at El Cortez and Block 16 Hospitality's restaurants through her company Bell Uniform Design, based right here in Las Vegas.

For the FIVE50 uniforms, she went with dark denim, leather leggings and gold fabric. "The hostesses wear a fitted black above-the-knee dress with a gold zipper that goes down the back center. Some of the guys are in John Varvatos Converse shoes. I'd wear every single piece out," she tells Vegas Magazine.

Dress sizes range from size zero to 16 to accommodate every size server. Do the servers really want to show so much skin? "You might think that the girls want to show everything. They don't."
· The Woman Behind Vegas' Best-Dressed Waiters [Vegas Magazine]
· Bell Uniform Design [Official Site]