/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

well what did we learn: to rock a blouseless coord you better be as ana as possible or ew
not a whale-chan myself, but god damn

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Wrapping Cherry, imo, is a better example for their weird Larme phase. It even was modeled without a blouse and with a Larme model, as if it was sending a message to that audience that "this is okay if you wear our lolita print Larme styled". It was a good, subtle fusion of lolita and Larme, hence it's success. Milky Swan was altogether forgotten and not something I ever hear anyone talk about. I think it was too blatantly Larme down to swans relating to Swankiss.

I feel like we shouldn't forget AP's micro-phase of crosses and crucifixes. What would you say would be the defining print of that? I feel like Cecilia Cross was the pinnacle of failure for AP's religious influenced prints, like how you think of Milky Swan as the peak of failure Larme-influenced prints.

What was really the most iconic cross print of that religious phase? Or rather, what AP print set off the whole "Holy" phase?

Angelic Pretty's 2016 collection and their 2015 stuff was met with some mixed impressions. A lot of people don't like were AP has been headed lately, but I have to ponder this;

Is Larme Magazine's influence on Angelic Pretty creating the new form of Ero Lolita?
Ero Lolita has exist in concept forever, but it's almost never properly pulled off; but AP's latest JSKs have been designed to be wearable blouse-less (a Ero Lolita feature) and they have been mixing in some very subtle yet mature elements. Looking at AP's design direction in this way, is the shift more or less acceptable?

"Fuck the rules, it's hot as balls" edition.