/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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They've done toned down designs before, this Phantom one is way before their jellyfish dress that fucked up everything, gave them a huge ego and started them on charging foreigners more. I wouldn't even say they had their own style anyway, aside from Mozarabic Chant and jellyfish everything else they've produced always looks like another brand's style, eg- "jetj style" Le Rentissement Versailles or Twelve Constellations, "aatp style" Transilvania Moonlight or Dullahan, "ap style" Red Queen or Venice Carnival, and so on. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Moitie is just out designers to hire and picked someone who could copy "moitie style" without actually replicating anything.

I'm way more worried about the quality. Granted I don't own a lot of Krad, Mozarabic Chant and Jellyfish were so super hyped up and then when I finally saw them in person I realised people don't actually say Krad is good quality per se. Most people actually selectively say "It's good for taobao brand", or "I was expecting much worse", or "I have this one particular specific burando dress that I dislike more than this dress". They get very selective and there's a lot of qualifiers why they say it's "good".

And given that Moitie just went through a change in ownership and maybe don't have access to their old manufacturers I'm just really worried that they're just gonna use Krad's manufacturing and then slap a Moitie label at the end. This is even worse because there's always going to be some issues you'll never see in photos until you hold the dress in your hand and feel what the fabric quality is really like.

I don't know, I might just pass on this altogether unless I can actually see it somewhere before I buy it. Have a trip to Japan coming up so I'm hoping it coincides with the release. It'll be their first "new" design since the changeover so I want it to go well, but I'm not willing to encourage a drop in quality.