diff --git a/common/changes/@uifabric/variants/phkuo-variantsImports_2018-05-12-00-26.json b/common/changes/@uifabric/variants/phkuo-variantsImports_2018-05-12-00-26.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..53b7bfdddf6b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/@uifabric/variants/phkuo-variantsImports_2018-05-12-00-26.json
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "@uifabric/variants",
+      "comment": "have variants use OUFR instead of Styling as a dependency to ease bundling optimizations",
+      "type": "minor"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "@uifabric/variants",
+  "email": "phkuo@microsoft.com"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/variants/package.json b/packages/variants/package.json
index b8efc928aa790..bbe8a4035ec3f 100644
--- a/packages/variants/package.json
+++ b/packages/variants/package.json
@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "tslib": "^1.7.1",
-    "@uifabric/styling": ">=5.30.1 <6.0.0"
+    "office-ui-fabric-react": ">=5.100.0 <6.0.0"
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/packages/variants/src/variants.ts b/packages/variants/src/variants.ts
index 5ac76334b4368..31d4dab2f7efa 100644
--- a/packages/variants/src/variants.ts
+++ b/packages/variants/src/variants.ts
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ import {
   IPalette,
   ISemanticColors,
   ITheme,
-  IPartialTheme
-} from '@uifabric/styling/lib/index';
-import { createTheme } from '@uifabric/styling/lib/index';
+  IPartialTheme,
+  createTheme
+} from 'office-ui-fabric-react/lib/Styling';
 
 function makeThemeFromPartials(
   originalTheme: IPartialTheme,