Hildegard von Krone from Soulcalibur V

This is my latest costume. I worked five long and hard months on Hilde. Why Hilde? She is from far my favourite character from Soulcalibur! First, I was in love with her IV outfit, but when the Soulcalibur V was released, I found this one particulary interesting.

As I won a sewing machine at Paris cosplay I wanted to give a try to this version to use the gift and make something other than full armor. It was very interesting to sew, to dye fabric and fur, to create patterns myself. I spent more time on the fabric parts than the armor itself.

I made the purple jacket with "matelassé" aspect. All is hand made, the chain mail, the helmet with the removing part on the top, the eperons, the belts... I dyed the wig too in order to have the good "red/auburn".

The flag was the hardest part with the little red skit and the helmet.

Five months ago, I meet Laura, who worked on Hilde too, we shared lot of things thank to Hilde ^^ I was really happy to find someone who made Hilde in the same time. I finally meet Laura during Japan expo, and she was really kind and funny!

During the con the weather was very very hot, it was hard to wear Hilde's outfit, but I was at ease on stage ^^ I was however very very tired and my face show how I was close to faint è_è

This is the two links of my skit, sadly because of the light, no one saw my fighting pose at the beginning. Japan Expo 2012 Jeudi Concours Cosplay Hildegarde's first video and second video.

I have really lot of good memories of Hilde, it was hard as hell, but I was happy of my work for this time. Hilde is special for me ^^

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February 17, 2013