Current mood:	accomplished
Current music:	Tokami - Demon Eyes (Astarise mix)
Entry tags:	astarise fashion

Fashion! Costumes!
All presented on my lovely Mania.
Actually photographing all this was ugh... let's put it this way: Mania is heavy. She doesn't have a stand. To balance her in an upright position I had to use 3-5 strings holding her from various places in my room -_- Of course I photoshopped them out later.

 

Belt + beads are from a shop :P The rest is 100% Astarise made.

The skirt is from a half circle. I made a mistake in calculations and the waist is too big so it's a kind of hip skirt. I hate that and will probably remove the pretty lace and sew it onto something new...

The fabric is from an old blouse sewn anew.



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Here I implemented an innovative, revolutionary, brilliant technique of attaching plastic bones. They're completely invisible yet play their role perfectly. This dress (jumper skirt?) only looks good with a black top. I tried it with white and I felt too sweet lolita ._.

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It also has plastic bones but used 'normally'. I'll have to alter the corset part because instead of cinching it gives me 2cm...
I'm in love with the lace here. It was red and I dyed it black - the result was 50/50 awww yeah.
I think I've already shown this top here once ^^;

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I think that's my favorite blouse of all time. I'm making a similar one now but with black/white vertical stripes instead of lace.
The skirt has about 40 meters of lace :3

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I've shown this one before too ^^;

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I have no use for this dress yet ;-;


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Costumes!
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Evil princess.
It's a bit complicated. Umm. There's a transparent skirt, bustle made of soldered wires, draped overskirt, transparent sleeveless top and a bolero with hooks & eyes behind. The fabric was actually creme (polyester) + white (cotton) so dyeing it gave this nice result.
Last picture is from the diploma exhibition which was... a year ago XD

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Evil princess 2.
Black underskirt (one of my old ones), skirt/apron with a stiff collar - has straps with buckles in the back. The overskirt (transparent fabric) is a kind of cape over which the straps go. It's draped over a wire bustle. The blouse is altered by adding the cuffs.
Oh and hey, that's actually me in the oval picture XD Some pictures will have this oval form because they're to be printed like that from my portfolio.

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Evil witch 1.
The shoulderhorns are part of the dress. They're quite light (polyurethane foam + wires) and wearable, actually. The dress has some plastic bones (that revolutionary technique) and a corset lacing in the back. Around the knees the lining changes into pvc. The dress fabric is dyed cotton and it has a similar pattern to evil princess #1 but smaller.
I removed one of Mania's arms for these pictures o_x.

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Evil witch 2.
Another wire bustle/panier thingy. 3 of them, yay! Soldering is fun.
I wanted to combine 1880's bustle (back) with a 18th century robe a la francaise (sides). The whole construction goes under the skirt, then the draped overskirt and those leaf-like thingies ^^;; The stay is made of 1 piece. It's very stiff and not very comfortable but fits me well. I'll use it for something else, definitely.

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Some more pictures of the exhibition. It was in Hotel Polonia and there were celebrities walking around and I felt so disgusted with that atmosphere/society that I hid reading in the corner during the party. I had to stay till the end because I insisted on mannequins (other people had models and a walking fashion show). Gblewhgheghghh.





 

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More to come soon, as always XD