All pictures on this page by Kenneth Chan.
All pictures on this page by Kenneth Chan.
This costume was created because I love doing the Fanime masquerade. A while back, I'd sang the Aria de Mezzo Carraterra from Final Fantasy VI while dressed as Celes. And a lot of people remembered it and loved it. I wanted to do the same thing again, only this time with a dress that I made myself and with a significantly harder operatic aria.
I
was watching Rose of Versailles at the time, and one of the characters,
Yolandre de la Polignac (Gabrielle Martin) enchanted Marie Antoinette with
her beautiful voice. I thought, here is my character. I just need
to find and learn a beautiful operatic aria, make the dress, and sing.
It'll be great.
Conveniently,
Yolandre loses a daughter during the series. So I originally worked out
the skit to have her praying for her daughter. But then I realized
that I was being way too obscure. So I figured that it would be better
to be Marie-Antoinette, a far better known character, praying for her son,
who she also loses during the series. So, the character changed...sort
of. I still think of this as my Polignac costume, not my Antoinette costume.
Considering that all of the characters have blonde hair (except Jean) and
change clothing, I figure I could be any of them.
