Carla has been involved with theater since an early age with school productions and UIL theater. She has been sewing/costuming since Junior High and became involved with LARP in 2003. Cosplay then became a passion in 2004. Carla is a master level cosplayer, and partner in Epps and York Apparel and Accessories, which specializes in cosplay and costuming.
Caroline comes from space, where she grew up defeating dire space pumas with her bare hands. Upon landing on Earth, she stumbled upon a large gathering of strangely-attired humans. As she walked into the convention center and saw hundreds of fans in strange costumes, she renounced her life as a space fighter and took up the fascinating human hobby of creating costumes. Since then, she has created dozens of costumes for herself and her friends. Her costuming work takes inspiration from many different sources, including anime and manga, video games, sci-fi, medieval and renaissance garb, and even written works. Her favorite part of costuming is crafting props and accessories, especially out of odd and unusual materials. Caroline has a BA in costume design from the University of North Texas where she was the lead designer for several university productions as part of her studies. She is currently working on her Masters at the University of North Texas while holding the position of President of the prestigious Mu Epsilon Kappa Alpha Chapter.
was born and raised in France by a Sci-Fi geek Dad an an Opera singing Grandmother. At the tender age of five, she kidnapped her Grandmother’s scissors and found some big paper bags from the Galleries LaFayette with the same print as Maxwell Smart’s jacket from Get Smart, and promptly made her first costume while her grandmother slept and she hasn’t stopped working on costumes since. She has always been involved in Drama Clubs in schools and was the de facto costumer and prop builder. Last century she moved to Texas looking for more adventures, where she also met her husband.
Since then, she has worked as a draft person, data entry specialist, seamstress/tailor for a Drag Queen costume store, photographer, translator, and freelance costumer/tailor. Even weddings are not safe as she has sewn her share of wedding and maid of honor dresses and also catered a few. For hobbies, she has been a member of the SCA for the past 30 years and has enjoyed several cons since coming to the USA! She is still looking for a good FTL drive, she’ll build the spaceship to install it in one day.
Maggie is a local Dallas, TX costumer who specializes in costuming that runs the gamut between historically accurate period pieces to Steampunk and movie reproductions. Maggie first began her interest in sewing after attending Texas Renaissance Festival in 1996. She learned how to sew on simple Rennie garb and then in 2002 she discovered Victorian fashions. And along with that, she discovered a whole new world of costuming friends online. From those friends, who turned out to be local, the DFW Costumers Guild was born. Today she is the Con Coordinator for the DFWCG and is active in both sewing costumes, planning Costumers Lost Weekend, and working to spread the DFWCG word. Sometimes when she’s lucky, she also performs in her costumes with New Riders of the Golden Age as Lady Rider in the Joust competitions.
If you would like to learn more or follow her work, you can find her here:
DFWCG:
http://www.dfwcg.org
DFWCG Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/DFW-Costumers-Guild/49156352803
DFWCG Yahoo Groups:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DFWCG/
Costumers' Lost Weekend:
http://www.dfwcg.org/2007/index.php?t=20&m=202&c=minicon
Melfina has been making her own costumes and bringing her favorite anime, manga and Video Game characters to life since 2004. Art and cosplay go hand-in-hand for this cosplayer, who has been drawing, painting, and sculpting since her childhood and has always enjoyed working with new and different materials to create a work of art. She got her start in cosplay after learning the basics of sewing from her mother and taking an introductory home economics class in high school - soon enough, she graduated from making pillow cases to constructing wearable clothing and costumes. However, the interest in cosplay had been present since first watching Anime in the late 90s, thanks to Toonami’s Anime lineup. Outside of cosplay, Melfina has a Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, and works as a graphic designer by day. She lives with her husband in the DFW area.
If you would like to learn more or follow her work, you can find her here:
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/MelfinaCosplays
DeviantArt:
http://livingdoll2.deviantart.com/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/RyokoNut
Mundee has a long record of judging cosplay, having sat as a judge for six years at a number of anime conventions, including AnimeFest and Jafax. She has been involved with the cosplay community over the past 20 years, where she has obtained much of her knowledge about cosplay and also through her Art History degree from the University of North Texas in 1992. Her intimate familiarity with anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture has given her the knowledge and insight of different costuming designs used in competitive cosplay competitions.
