10 year career – Memories from 2011: Otakuthon with Yaya Han

Celebrating my 10-year career! Back to August 2011. It’s my friend Riki (Riddle) who introduced me to Yaya Han during Dragon Con 2010. In 2011, Yaya was received as a cosplay guest by Otakuthon, a Japanese anime convention in Montreal, QC. Yaya remembered that I was from the province of Quebec and invited me to spend the weekend at Otakuthon with her husband and her. I was honored that she thought of me and accepted her invitation. It was only the 2nd time I was attending Otakuthon and I had sewed 2 cute costumes for the event, Eureka from Eureka 7 and Hiyori Sarugaki from Bleach. I was pleased to find that old pic of me with Yaya and a lovely French Canadian cosplayer and seamstress who’s been a loyal fan for many years, Maude Biskuit!

I knew that Yaya was planning to do a Catwoman cosplay, possibly in latex since she had seen my latex Sue Storm costume from NYCC 2010. So while she was in Montreal, I introduced her to the people of Polymorphe, the latex clothing company that made my Sue Storm costume. (Check out my previous posts for the complete story about Polymorphe and my Sue Storm costume.) That weekend, we hanged out together and Yaya could order her custom made black latex catsuit.

I met Yaya again later that year at Orlando Megacon. Here we are posing with our Polymorphe latex suits. Thanks again to Polymorphe’s team and their skilled little hands!