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Favorites From Sixh – Animenext – June 11, 2011

Purplepenguin — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:06:21 +0000

These are my favorite shots from the Sixh show at Animenext. I wonder if these are the same fashions from all their shows (they’ve been touring around America at Anime Conventions) or if they choose different ones for each show. You can see all the pieces at www.purpleskymagazine.com

h.Naoto Fashion Show @ Otakon 2010

Purplepenguin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:12:16 +0000

The h.Naoto fashion show was long. I love his designs, but no matter how slowly you make your models trudge down the runway, most folks are too far away to notice the details that really make h.Naoto’s designs so fantastic. His little details, like the patterns on a shirt or the tiny buttons down a coat, are meticulous and symbolic.

I got there late, so this may not be all the designs he showed. There were two videos for the Hangry & Angry sub-line and Sixh. Both lines are basically the same concept of music and fashion melding together, intertwined so much that one can’t tell which influences the other and vice versa. They were both a little boring and not up to par with the work that went down the runway.

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Otakon 2010

Purplepenguin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:58:34 +0000

Every year Baltimore gets to host a little event called Otakon. Just imagine thousands of nerdy children, their parents, random hipsters and the occasional sane human converging at the giant glass walled Baltimore convention center dressed in every imaginable costume from Japanese animation, popular science fiction, fantasy and video games. It’s an insane amount of color, noise and BO.

This year featured quite a bit of Japanese fashion with the Ultimate Lolita Fashion Show and the h.Naoto Runway Show & Panel. The Lolita Show features work from local designers in North America. I was asked to walk for Morrigan NYC. I’m not a runway model, but luckily I can walk straight and keep my posture. I didn’t faceplant into the floor and that’s good.

I think these types of conventions are great venues for budding photographers to work with natural light and also work on posing people. There’s tons of folks walking around just waiting to get their picture taken. As long as you’re polite, they’ll be polite and you may come out with some interesting stuff. Even if you’re a sniper-photog with a long telephoto, the stuff that happens at these conventions won’t be replicated elsewhere and putting the photos together could make for a great story.

I had meant to take photos documenting what I did each day at the convention, but opted not to after a hectic press schedule. I did catch one of the Twin Bee’s, a bit of the h.Naoto show, a Jasmine You (visual kei band Versailles) cosplayer and some other random cosplay stuff.

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Tokyo Fashion Festa – MiELette Tautou

Purplepenguin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:44:08 +0000

I really loved every piece from this designer. The antique lace and sort of shabby chic lolita looked fresh, comfortable and perfect for spring time picnics.

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Tokyo Fashion Festa – Angelic Pretty

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:27:00 +0000

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