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Astarise Fashion (yet again~)
Hello uh, July~~ XD'

Actually I had completely different entry planned but it so happened that I was offered a random photoshoot on Monday. Random free photoshoot.
Well, there's this one big Polish fashion portal whose representatives were all over me and 'ahhh your stuff is so cool and original omg ♥' and asked me to let them write an article about me (ok... o_O) as well as to have my things photographed. They organized everything: the model, the makeup artist, the photographer, the place and transport so I should consider myself really lucky because if I wanted to hire each above mentioned component of a photoshoot myself, it would cost me a fortune. And a real fortune if they were pros O_O

They booked the place before asking me though, so I'm not quite happy about that because it was a big saloon with super luxurious modern furniture. Half of them were from crocodile skin so I felt like in a crocodile cemetery ;_; And a cow cemetery too, since there was a lot of leather.
And even though the place was quite big, there were very few compositions suitable so it was a disappointment. If I had been completely in charge of this, I would have chosen something different. Actually for me this was the first situation when I had to discuss and compromise my ideas with somebody (photographer-san) >_> It also felt very weird to dress up model-san. Model-san, despite being very nice and friendly, was smaller than me and wayyy shorter so I had to use safety pins to make my clothes look somewhat decent on her. Also, because of the height difference, we decided that she should be sitting instead of standing in the first outfit~

So the first set is the outfit which I like best and the photo of which (with me wearing it) has already been posted here.

To make the corset look fitting, she's got a whole big shirt stuffed into the front of it hahaha~ But it's good because such unrealistically-proportioned silhouette was in my initial design drawing XD
The pictures are almost not photoshopped. I only lessened the colors and deleted the flowers that were painted on the wall. I left them in the last picture though.

Next is something I haven't posted pictures of yet, but I have posted the design XD.






Photographer-san insisted on that shell-lamp ._.; Also~! The whole outfit includes a white puffy petticoat but I lost it somewhere in the abyss of my working room O_O; This is how it looks with it. The bottom black stripe is not laced to the skirt in the picture with the mannequin:

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- The blouse has a hooks & eyes closing at the back.
- The black stripes are elastic.
- The pantyhose are hand painted.
- I made the mini top hat about a year ago. The outside is from velvet and the white brooch is detachable. Here's how it looks on Kyouichi (who's baa~ald XD):



The inside is from a different fabric~ (and it's all black, despite the flashlight)

The third one uses a blouse from an outfit I had very little time to make. I thought I'd choose to maker something simple then, and simple = sleeveless. Actually it proved to be as complicated as the sleeved ones haha^^;


She's sitting completely unladylike >_> Despite my protests photographer-san found it cool. And yay for the parasol~! The composition didn't look good when it was opened though ;o;

The blouse consists of 10 parts and I'm very happy with the pattern. It fits me perfectly (well, me, not her ^^;;;). Yay and let's look at the detail of the seam. This is me being perfectionistic:


And the design:


Yes, I will buy myself a new scanner soon and then I will replace these ugly, underdetailed photos. My problem is that I don't know which scanner to buy >__>;

And unfortunately that's all from the photoshoot. Photographer-san took abut 300 shots of each set @_@ Everything took too much time, which we eventually ran out of.

Oh yeah, look a group picture <3

That's the main classroom where my things (poster = not mine) were an exhibition for a whole semester, haha. Mannequins are a privilege here, most people's stuff hangs insignificantly on coat hangers...
Of course that's definitely not all I've made for school muahahah. The rest just awaits its turn to be photographed >3

Also~! Photoshoots are fun! (<- this wasn't my first one ne) I've decided I want to take part in more photoshoots from now on. It's a really cool thing. Especially after I've watched those hundreds of photoshoot materials with jrockers ^^

Speaking of, omfghell, ムック頑張って!!! Somebody should ban me from reading Japanese blogs/mixi because the news makes me almost cry. As a form of support I shall wear my ムック tour tshirts every day. Or something *sends mucc her love*