Cheddar Gorgeous at the 25th Life Ball, on the red carpet at the Wiener Rathaus in Vienna, wearing the finished outfit. The cream headdress from the studio now part of a full look, gold and pale and enormous, exactly where it was built to be.
This is the pay-off for the work, seeing it out in Vienna on the person it was made for, in front of that crowd, on that carpet. A thing made in a Salford studio, worn to a ball in a European city hall, which is a good distance for a costume to travel.
Part of the Cheddar Gorgeous case study.