Matsuri in her dress

Photo by my absolutely favourite photographer Jurai <3
I always wonder how he makes cosplayer look good on the photos even though they barely slept the nights (yes, plural >_< before ... I felt like a wandering corpse during the convention and the shoes were killing me ...

Anyway, Lady_Hinoto made this costume years ago and I always admired it. When she said, the next Connichi would be her last convention and I told her about my plan of doing Matsuri aswell, she said she would really like to see me as one of her favourite characters on her last con.
So I did it.

Matsuri is not a very popular, she is from one of CLAMPS earliest works, Soryuden and usally appears in a plain school uniform.
But when I saw an artwork of her as the reincarnated goddess I KNEW I had to make it someday.

I used -don't kill me- satin für the dress. I know, I know, people hate satin and for most costumesI do, too.
But on the artwork her dress had such a beautiful shimmer, so I tried satin and I think it's fitting, because it's an elegant long dress.
For any other costumes, like uniforms, I wouldn't dare to use such fabric

I guess I never wore SO many pink xD
But I like the costume, though I think the black hair ... well ... doesn't really suits me. But maybe it's just my imagination or a bad wig ^^