#cubao

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First joiners 😂

First nascam 😂

I am back with another Cubao outfit, replicated from one of Gong Jun’s Paris Fashion Week looks.

This is the Julien Fournie haute couture outfit GJ wore to walk the L’Oreal Defile show on October 2, 2023.

Naturally, we started with the inner pieces first - pants and shirt.

The pants (the easiest part of any bao outfit) is made in a black stretch sateen (my absolutely favorite fabric to work with). The shirt is a black poly satin thing…I don’t really know what it is, just something I picked up because it was the right sheen. A bit slippery to work with but looks nice overall.

These two pieces will be used multiple times in other outfits so I suspect they will get pretty good use.

The most laborious part was the jacket. The pattern I used is the same as for the shirt but sized up a bit. To get it to fit better, I quickly sewed in some darts in the fronts and back. They don’t look great or are evenly placed, but they get covered up by the beading and collar. But the sewing was the easy part.

And then came the beading.

One sleeve of beading took about an hour.

After about 3 hours of work I had two sleeves and half a collar.

A break for lunch and then the final press. Beading too out 6-7 hours total with breaks in between (I had Legend of Anle playing in the background as a rewatch and I went through 9 episodes).

I am pretty happy with the end result for something I swore I would never make but then had a sudden burst of inspiration. I think it paid off because Julien Fournie himself commented and reposted to his IG stories. 🫣

Nothing beats some quality time with your bestfriend. Watching a movie and eating after. I think the last time we went to a cinema is when we watched a Korean action film The Childe by Kim Seon-ho.

We watched Lisa Frankenstein because we wanna see how Liza Soberano is in it. It has been two years ago I think since I last went to to Cubao. I think I watched UAAP.

Liza Soberano definitely delivered for her role as Taffy. What a nice start for a Hollywood debut. But unfortunately, the script is a bit loose for me. I didn't like the pacing plus the scoring is a hit or miss. It is visually entertaining though.