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Description
"And you keep telling me,
telling me that you'll be sweet.
And you'll never want to leave my side,
as long as I don't break these...
Promises."

This is my take on a couture Godzilla gijinka!

My inspiration for this cosplay came from the Chinese zodiac since it's the year of the water dragon! After lots of sketching, I created an original design for a Godzilla gijinka. I wanted to challenge myself by sewing something clean and couture that would also represent Godzilla in a more abstract way. The patterns were made from scratch, and there was a ton of applique work involved. For example, each of the "scales" is an individual circle I had to cut out and applique onto the jacket. Each of the "buildings" in an individual rectangle that had to be stitched down as well. In addition, everything is fully lined. It was alot of hard work and there are still things that I'd like to add on in the future, but I'm really happy with how it turned out and I can't wait to make more original gijinka designs based off of existing characters!

Major thanks to L.A. for being an awesome photog as always!

Photo by iM photography

Description
"And you keep telling me,
telling me that you'll be sweet.
And you'll never want to leave my side,
as long as I don't break these...
Promises."

This is my take on a couture Godzilla gijinka!

My inspiration for this cosplay came from the Chinese zodiac since it's the year of the water dragon! After lots of sketching, I created an original design for a Godzilla gijinka. I wanted to challenge myself by sewing something clean and couture that would also represent Godzilla in a more abstract way. The patterns were made from scratch, and there was a ton of applique work involved. For example, each of the "scales" is an individual circle I had to cut out and applique onto the jacket. Each of the "buildings" in an individual rectangle that had to be stitched down as well. In addition, everything is fully lined. It was alot of hard work and there are still things that I'd like to add on in the future, but I'm really happy with how it turned out and I can't wait to make more original gijinka designs based off of existing characters!

Major thanks to L.A. for being an awesome photog as always!

Photo by iM photography