Dark Phoenix (from The X-Men) by Lilia Lemoine
Photographed by Fernando Brischetto of Sans Frontieres
"This past few months, I decided to cross the boundaries that I would normally stay in and do something just a tad dangerous. I have been wanting to shoot an X-Men Dark Phoenix cosplay for quite some time and the majority of the ideas made me say “meh” to myself. All it takes is a quick second to look on over to Deviantart and find photoshopped pictures of some really hideous fake fire on a Phoenix costume.. or better yet, a background of fire with a cut-out of her standing in fire pretending to be mean. None of it really excited me and photo manipulation is not really my thing. I love experimenting with it and have had some neat results with it.. but I like being minimalistic with the shop."
"It's very rare that I don't make my own costumes, but I love Ana's stuff and I was thrilled to wear a few of her creations that weekend!"