Re: YUNSIL Princess Leia white dress PROTOTYPE PICS UP
Hurry up is a moot point if you ask me.
People are impatient and instant gratification wears. How many Princess Leia dolls over the 300 dollar mark are you going to own in your life? We waited a year? So?... before hot toys put this out what was your best option? Sideshow? You care enough to pay almost the price of the figure for a new dress for your princess doll... waiting a few more weeks or months shouldn't be an issue.
The fabric is unacceptable as is and better than hot toys is not enough. Anything is better than hot toys and from what I've seen and believe me I have every reason to trust the judgment of chilipep as we have literally the same collection and agree on most things... (must be in the DNA)... it's not as good as the tony meis prototype that's where we disagree... I've studied that one a lot tonight and it's superior in most ways, and tony too abandoned the project because he could not find the right fabric... so there must be something to this...and Mike knows how to futz and make things look good. He has a better eye than most, I've borrowed a **** ton of ideas from stuff he's done.
But this is something that's important to me that thing had sat for a year and a half, two years or whatever I looked at it twice sice I got it because i despise the hot toys dress. And it's one of their best heads and probably the only good human head they did.
And we all know yunsil has bit off more than she can chew but she's told us for awhile now she was holding out for the right fabric, I thought it was horse**** and was anxious to rush this. But I've now done a complete 180.
I work in the fabric district of manhattan and I've been an art director creating brand identities for big fashion brands for 10 years... in literally surrounded by fabric all the time. I can go across the street tomorrow and find hundreds of white fabric. I can tell you first hand Asia has hundreds of more options for fabric than the us or even Europe. Many of the mills still come from Italy but lately the synthetic abilities that the Asian factories are able to produce are far better for this scale. It's why even major couture labels are having legal battles because they refuse to put made in China or Korea or Taiwan due to associated stigmas, but a lot of their fabric comes from there.
But at this point I'm going to go across the street tomorrow to see what I can find. I'm not expecting anything. But if I find anything I even remotely feel confident about I'll buy some of the fabric take some pics wrapped around my liea and if we like it send the sample to yunsil to see if she likes it and can work with it, hell I'll get her the fabric myself... All on my own dime and time because I feel so strongly that this is not the right fabric.
If I don't find anything and we let yunsil look for new fabric for the next few weeks (don't worry about fall vs spring fabric, it doesn't work like that trust me you need all types of fabric for ready-to-wear design... they literally use everything for every collection, problem is it just dries up..
It's a ****** job organizing these runs the effort is worth peanuts in the end and people have their pitchforks out so I emplore a bit more patience, worst case scenario? We fall back on this. At least we know we did everything we can to try.
Hurry up is a moot point if you ask me.
People are impatient and instant gratification wears. How many Princess Leia dolls over the 300 dollar mark are you going to own in your life? We waited a year? So?... before hot toys put this out what was your best option? Sideshow? You care enough to pay almost the price of the figure for a new dress for your princess doll... waiting a few more weeks or months shouldn't be an issue.
The fabric is unacceptable as is and better than hot toys is not enough. Anything is better than hot toys and from what I've seen and believe me I have every reason to trust the judgment of chilipep as we have literally the same collection and agree on most things... (must be in the DNA)... it's not as good as the tony meis prototype that's where we disagree... I've studied that one a lot tonight and it's superior in most ways, and tony too abandoned the project because he could not find the right fabric... so there must be something to this...and Mike knows how to futz and make things look good. He has a better eye than most, I've borrowed a **** ton of ideas from stuff he's done.
But this is something that's important to me that thing had sat for a year and a half, two years or whatever I looked at it twice sice I got it because i despise the hot toys dress. And it's one of their best heads and probably the only good human head they did.
And we all know yunsil has bit off more than she can chew but she's told us for awhile now she was holding out for the right fabric, I thought it was horse**** and was anxious to rush this. But I've now done a complete 180.
I work in the fabric district of manhattan and I've been an art director creating brand identities for big fashion brands for 10 years... in literally surrounded by fabric all the time. I can go across the street tomorrow and find hundreds of white fabric. I can tell you first hand Asia has hundreds of more options for fabric than the us or even Europe. Many of the mills still come from Italy but lately the synthetic abilities that the Asian factories are able to produce are far better for this scale. It's why even major couture labels are having legal battles because they refuse to put made in China or Korea or Taiwan due to associated stigmas, but a lot of their fabric comes from there.
But at this point I'm going to go across the street tomorrow to see what I can find. I'm not expecting anything. But if I find anything I even remotely feel confident about I'll buy some of the fabric take some pics wrapped around my liea and if we like it send the sample to yunsil to see if she likes it and can work with it, hell I'll get her the fabric myself... All on my own dime and time because I feel so strongly that this is not the right fabric.
If I don't find anything and we let yunsil look for new fabric for the next few weeks (don't worry about fall vs spring fabric, it doesn't work like that trust me you need all types of fabric for ready-to-wear design... they literally use everything for every collection, problem is it just dries up..
It's a ****** job organizing these runs the effort is worth peanuts in the end and people have their pitchforks out so I emplore a bit more patience, worst case scenario? We fall back on this. At least we know we did everything we can to try.
