Hello! I am super late the party but I finally managed to get my entry done and ready!

Kaoru is my absolute favourite character so I was raring to make something to enter as her; she has this certain charisma about her that makes me so comfortable the minute I put her outfits on. So naturally that was who I was going to enter!

I go by Emvee cosplay on instagram and am slowly churning through Bandori girls. At first I had ideas I wanted to enter and wanted to enter something completely new from my projects and different from other contestants for variety! A lot of my ideas were already entered by such talented people and I felt like I needed to bring something else.

So in my good old fashion; I chose the latest card that was released to make. So all in all this cosplay took 6 very long days to rig up specially for this competiton!

Each piece on my costume was hand patterned and then made by myself; silver parts were added with heat and bond to stop puckering in stitching. The rest of the outfit was restless nights of ruffling cotton and adding ribbon to other pieces to create the effect on many panels. I think by the end of it I was sick of seeing purple hahaha!

You can see all my progress for this outfit in a highlight reel(and check out my other cosplays from Bandori) here at: https://www.instagram.com/emveecosplay/