Finally, the website is up which means I can put a name to the 7 sections that were shown at the launch and from the labels such as "Fairies" and "Witches & Centaurs" Genesis is also doing a whimsical myths and magic theme with their 2008 portrayal "Tales"! On a side note it is interesting how several bands this year are doing similar themes and even have costumes with the same section names.
I digress, let me get back to the costumes... Genesis, Genesis, Genesis.... I do not even know where to begin! Firstly they totally desecrated one of my favourite theatre productions of all time, Phantom of the Opera, by making the male costume ludicrous!!
I digress, let me get back to the costumes... Genesis, Genesis, Genesis.... I do not even know where to begin! Firstly they totally desecrated one of my favourite theatre productions of all time, Phantom of the Opera, by making the male costume ludicrous!!
Phantom of the Opera
It is SO easy to replicate the distinctive Phantom mask that this garish green goblin gas mask is just infantile! This gets the worst male costume of Carnival 2008 for me !In fact many of the male costumes look like campy Halloween costume that one can purchase online. The only male section that looks halfway decent is the Centaur VIP section (Lord alone knows what the VIP entails) where it looks as if the male costume will be airbrushed!
The female costumes are certainly remarkable; I will give them that the majority are quite unique and one cannot say that they look like anything else out there, Genesis is in a league of their own. The "White Witch" looks as if she regurgitated Island People's Polar Bear, yet it is one of the better female costumes! Some of the frontlines are missing from the website, such as Mermaid, Snow Witch and Fairies, hopefully they are getting a makeover in the interim. My favourite female costume of the lot is Pocahontas, but with prices of between $2495.00 and $3500.00 for female costumes the pricing is not competitive. Sorry to be blunt but there are other bands with superior costumes, in terms of design and construction, for less money! In a year with so many new bands offering masqueraders costume choices galore this is the time to up the ante folks, not drop the ball!
The female costumes are certainly remarkable; I will give them that the majority are quite unique and one cannot say that they look like anything else out there, Genesis is in a league of their own. The "White Witch" looks as if she regurgitated Island People's Polar Bear, yet it is one of the better female costumes! Some of the frontlines are missing from the website, such as Mermaid, Snow Witch and Fairies, hopefully they are getting a makeover in the interim. My favourite female costume of the lot is Pocahontas, but with prices of between $2495.00 and $3500.00 for female costumes the pricing is not competitive. Sorry to be blunt but there are other bands with superior costumes, in terms of design and construction, for less money! In a year with so many new bands offering masqueraders costume choices galore this is the time to up the ante folks, not drop the ball!
White Witch
Pocahontas
9 comments:
mawning everybody
my fav is the white witch frontline. if i had the money or lets say i was rich, i would want that section and be a 2band FHO. white witch monday and silver mist tuesday.
i am very impressed with some of the designs particularly for the men. Good job!!!!
Those costumes looks cheap and ugly!
I am not in love with their offering. Plus, why do you have to click on each section name? Navigating the site seems to be a bit of a pain!
It seems that I visit mascamps the day before you write about it. I had a close up of the costumes, and again I can notice some great concepts, but maybe they didn't know how to take it further. I don't think Nina like the idea that I was there; seeing that this year we're actually competition; but close up we can see a mix of detailing and alos lack there of (unfortunatly in the same costume) which would make the entire costume veer on the cheaper side of things. I did like some of their ideas; but they have a finishing concearns I think.
But Saucy, Nina was in house and was actually touching up and re-doing some of their pieces before putting it on display; so we should see some upgrades in the costumes.
ADDAE
Addae I think they need to take a holistic approach to design and bring on board other designers. From what I read Nina does all the designs (as well as designs for her personal attire ) and I think she needs to put down the glitter and move away from the hot gun :P
dissapointed in genesis.
where are the beads and tons of feathers? i no that shouldd not be the case every year but i don't think slu, anu, and bds will be collabing with them next year.
at least they matched the theme.
I don't like to pass judgement, but the Genesis costumes are some of the ugliest and cheapest-looking (at those prices?!) I've seen in years. Fairies... hello? Hell no. They will need a lot of tweaking.
Genesis need to close up shop and run back to Big Mike, they were better together.
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