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poetryincostume · 1 year ago

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Hey, what kind of costuming do you do? I'm obsessed with the corsets you've posted, they honestly look immaculate and I love the period inspiration. are you a historical costumer?

Hello!

Thank you so much, I'm so glad you like them! I've been wanting to make a ribbon corset for years, so finally making two has been very pleasing.

I broadly call myself a cosplayer as much as I call myself anything. I have a lot of feelings about the various labels people use and the forms of gatekeeping and snobbery that come from each. Really costume, in whatever form you may approach it, is an art form.

I have been working as a professional costumier in the UK film industry (tho not right now, thank you US studios for your greed) for the last 13 years. I’ve only been making for myself since 2017. I approach all of my projects the same way I approach my work - and have been so lucky to observe incredible designers working: I always end up falling into research holes and drag in historicsim, art, pop culture, and all sorts into my projects. But at the heart of it all, for me, is exploring character and narrative. Painting and sculpting characters out of fabric.

This is largely why I refer to my personal work as cosplay for ease: because I'm making characters or using character, theme or story as a leaping off point. See my little star warsy inspired jacket, and The Madwoman. The Saddest Girl In The World works as a standalone piece in this vein, but is also part of a bigger, whole costume that I started uuhhhhh a year ago. I want everything I make to stand on its own and express something.

Left to right: - Numa, Star Wars Rebels - I closely referenced the French Resistance in my research and making, but this is a true and true 'accurate' cosplay. - Olivier Mira Armstrong, Fullmetal Alchmist - also an 'accurate' cosplay, but I did deep research in historical tailoring, Japanese tailoring, and World War II military tailoring and created the entire costume using historical techniques. I won two competitions with this costume! - Princess Zelda, Breath of the Wild - an example of me building from the skin out. This is an accurately historical turn-of-the-century combination set made using historical handkerchief and insertion techniques and entirely handsewn. However I infused it with character and story by constructing the main body of the combinations of triangles, and piecing it together with three point needlework (more triangles), for a total Triforce infusion. There is a full set of similarly triforcey companion undergarments.

It's all fake and in space; it's all poetry. I'm playing. With costume. So I guess I'm a cosplayer, but when you're playing the limit is your imagination.

#ask and answer #bigsnorp #about xena #i don't think this is helpful. TLDR yes there is historicism bleeding through all of my work no i don't exclusively class myself as a #historical costumer. I'm just here to explore what i love intellectually and materially #and i don't expect anyone else to be doing things the way tht I do things bc where is the fun in that #can I just call myself an artist? it is art I like to think I’m making art #david zaslav personally owes me 200+ hours of overtime #absolutely delighted by the reaction to my ribbon corsets 🖤🖤🖤🖤#I just really love costume #so very very much

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simsdelsworld · 3 years ago

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The Sims4 : Tiland: Aterby Circle

#tiland - a fictional land connecting the Middle Ages with fantasy. Aterby Circle is an ancient mystic place inpired by Stonehenge.

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#ancient #fantasy #ts4 #thesims #the sims 4 #simsdelsworld #simdels #sdw #stonehenge #inspired #temple #monolith #magic #historicsims #tiland #sims4ancient #aterby #windenburg

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simtopia-pl-forum-thesims-blog · 6 years ago

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Świątynia Uxlun

Świat majów, Asteków i innych zaginionych cywilizacji od zawsze inspiruje wyobraźnię zarówno twórców gier jak i graczy. Niezwykłą piramidę pełną funkcjonalnych działających pułapek pobierzecie TU Autorem tej pracy jest użytkowniczka naszego forum o nicku #kropka A Wy próbowaliście już budować włąsne piramidy lub inne grobowce z zastosowaniem pułapek? Swoimi pracami możecie podzielić się w tym dziale. Dobrej zabawy!