Rinoa Heartilly
℘CLOTHING℘
2010 version was made out with of ribbed fabric and wings just drew with white fabric color.
→ UPDATE: In the 2016 version, duster was full hand knitted, it takes me a lot (more or less a year). I took a few lessons in knitting by an elderly friend of my aunt , who very patiently taught me various tricks and followed me during various phases of the development and in my panic moments . It was the most unpleasant work I have made in all these years as cosplayer , but also the more satisfying. As for the skirt , we created a pattern which we printed on fabric. I tried to focus on every detail from hair to boots.
℘Squall costume℘
We got highest waist possible pants and added loops for the belts in one leg for belts.
I’ve completely made Bomber by hand, trying to reproduce any minimal detail (like zip slider on the opposive side). We decided to not do it in faux leather but in deerskin fabric since in many references & videos it does’t seens to have any shine like leather.
℘2010℘
I love this version of Rinoa, she wears it the first time she meets Squall at Balamb Garden and ask him to dance with her.
The difficulties in this dress were:
1.Color shades and fabrics. We debated about it a lot.
2. The fabrics we get were very beautiful, expensive, delicate and damn SLIPPERY, it was a nightmare to work with it.
We learned the choreography in … 3 days? And we won the award for “Best Performance” at Katagames 2014. Although, unfortunately we messed half a step at the end ç_ç (We had widened too much).
→ UPDATE 2015: I change my wig with a really better one and we won again as ”Best couple” at Japan Fest cosplay contest. <3
℘VIDEO PERFORMANCE℘