Costumes for the Famous...

In this picture, we used Red [EM] dye for the hair, while the hair stylist had a hard time because of the hair length, it turned out very wonderfully. The complaints about how long it took were dismissed after the final result came about, but then there was the make-up to worry about. After that was all finished, the costume came on. Hand made, out of nylon and leather, this particular outfit took days of work to make. It had to be lined because the model’s allergy to nylon, and that made it take even longer to make. The final touches to the outfit consisted of adding studs to it, which looks easy, but it’s a really long, complicated process. The tedious nature of studding the outfit added on about a day’s length of work alone, but when it came to the making of the mask, nothing compared to it. After much complaining from Die (model shown, guitarist in band Dir en Grey) the mask fit him how he wanted it. It had to be made five to six different times to make him happy about it, but in the end it was all worth the effort. The mask is made of the same material, and that too, had to be lined over and over again as to not make his allergy act up. Replacing the studs on the mask was not an easy task either, because of the patterns that they were wanted in, they had to be removed every time.