MORE ABOUT MIWAKO

When I watched Paradise Kiss in high school, I didn't expect it to affect me the way it did — and to be fair I'm not sure most fans were even affected by it the way I was! The way the characters cared so much about fashion and design hit me in a way that made me rethink how I felt about those things. After studying music for most of my life I was genuinely thought that that was the only option for my career path, but this was the first thing that made me start considering my love of fashion as a viable option as well. When I started at MassArt in 2015 I applied and declared as a fashion major, and I loved studying there so much that I decided later freshman year to make a costume from this show as a way to show openly how much it meant to me. Don't get me wrong I still adore music and you will see me gushing about it in so many of my creations, but I'm happy that I embraced this other side of me and that I'm not auditioning literally every week.

To create this look I frankensteined a pattern for the garment together by modifying simple dress and shirt patterns that I already had, and then constructed the final piece with cotton blends. The "socks" are two pairs of tights spliced together with a lace trim in the middle. The wig was one of my first attempts at a more complicated wig; it is a base pigtail wig with two curly clips styled into big buns.