#cosplayer interview

[tabithacerberus]

The newest cosplayer interview is up on my YouTube channel. Meet my friend Sammy I Ammy! The next two interviews will be some international costume makers so keep your eyes peeled!

[captain-ghost]

You can step out of character now hun 🫣

(Interview in question)

[jaegasms]

“She wanted to say yes, but she didn’t trust you”

Introducing a young Alice Molloy, if we’re going with the headcanon that she looks eerily like Armand 👀

[obiwhat]

camboy molloy 📹💵

[helenennie]

Harlequin Lestat cosplay I made. Probably going to enter it into my first ever masquerade! If I do, I'll post about the experience

[posthumanwanderings]

A very tall Ulala [source]

[bbambiiiiiii]

The vampire Armand!

[ghostbatt]

Claudia Cosplay 🦇

[notgilderoylockhart]

The Wolfkiller Cloak

So I have this thing where sometimes I see something on screen and my brain just short-circuits. It scratches my brain just right, I need to have this, I need to make this. And that’s what happened in nearly every episode of Interview with the Vampire, but especially in season 2 episode 3 “No Pain”. 

This cloak has seared itself into my brain. The soft shine, the drape, the movement of the fabric (as Lestat is dragged across the floor and smashed against the wall) had bewitched me, body and mind. So I went out researching and decided to make one for myself, based on this pattern for a hooded cloak.

The fabric I used was stretchy velvet (for budget reasons, 6m) and a black lining fabric with a small diamond print (for fun, 4m). The pattern I used doesn't include a lining and I did think about leaving it out but in the behind the scenes footage (and when Armand smashes him against the wall, thank you for that) you could clearly see that there clearly is a dark lining on the inside of the cloak and my brain decided leaving it out just wasn't an option. So I just cut out the front and back piece twice, one velvet and one lining.

It might be 35°C and sunny outside, but you gotta press those seams. At least for the lining fabric. Then we can pin the lining to the the velvet, sew them together at the collar and start hemming the sides. Be warned. It's a lot of fabric, so you're gonna need a lot of space. I would also recommend (if you're using a stretchy fabric like me) to pin and, if you're able, even sew the hems while it's hanging on a hanger. Yes, I handstitched the sides and bottom hem. Ever since I started looking into historical reconstructions, I have kind of fallen in love with the lack of visible seams. Not to mention that hand stitching has also become something of a favorite pastime of mine while rewatching IWTV.

Now I shortened it, which was quite hard to do simply because it's so much fabric and I don't have a mannequin. So I hung it up, pinned where I wanted to cut it, tried it on, took a video, so I could see the where the cut would be and went from there. Took me a few tries, but I'm quite happy with how it turned out.

Now that that's done, we can attach the shorter layer and the hood. My biggest issue was finding some fur, but lucky for me, I was cat-sitting for my downstairs neighbor who has been working as a theater seamstress for 40 year and who was out of town for the weekend, visiting her son who, unbeknownst to me, also worked for a big theater company. And both of them had made it their personal mission to find me some faux fur. And they did. This incredible faux fur was everything I wanted it to be. A wolf-gray with a red shimmer and some darker spots. I was over the moon.

And it was totally worth coughing up hairballs for the rest of the evening. In the original pattern there actually is a hood lining, but I just replaced that with the fur. I would absolutely recommend stitching the fur and the hood together, as the pattern instructions say. Do as I say, not as I do.

The other issue I had was the fur on the hood. I had ordered a faux fur hood attachment for a winter jacket, but the look and the feel just wasn't the same. So I went on ebay, as I so often do late at night, and kind of hit the jackpot. A fox fur stole, not one person bidding on it, 3 days left to go. Yup, I got it. 30 bucks plus shipping.

I mean, come on. What a difference.

The last issue, the final problem so to speak, was the fact that there was a big border of velvet on the inside of the cloak. Now I tried attaching a long piece of velvet fabric, but it just wouldn't sit right and after the 3rd time attaching and reattaching and getting increasingly frustrated I simply took the easy way out. I cut out a triangular piece of velvet and attached it right where the cloak would open. Sue me.

And there you have it.

And because it's summer rn and I don't have the energy to head outside at night to take some actual pics, I decided to whip something up in photoshop.

[dreadfuldevotee]

yk a less important thing this whole drama made me realize is how few louis cosplayers there are

[tabithacerberus]

Decided to add something new to my YouTube channel. I will be interviewing different cosplayers. To give you an inside on why they cosplay, their favorite builds, and future goals. First up is my friend MK Cosplay Nerd! Hope you enjoy the video <3

[fanwarrior-suffering]

Wolfkiller 🐺🗡️

aka baby Lestat

[jaegasms]

Femme!Armand you say

[thevagabondangelx]

Made a silly little edit of my tvc cosplays

If you see this, would else should I possibly cosplay as from the vampire chronicles 🤔

[thevagabondangelx-moved]

Thought I'd share a couple Armand cosplay photos from months ago. I really need to cosplay him again to get better photos

[obiwhat]

more of camboy molloy bc,,, hmph 🙂‍↕️🎀