"I always wear my own designs. I added a dark element to the cuteness of Lolita."
"I think of them as day-to-day clothes. It's not cosplay... sometimes it is registered as such, especially with the rise in popularity of maid cafes around Akihabara. I'd like people to realize that they're different."
"I love seeing fans cosplay me, it makes me happy."
†From The Tokyo Look Book by Philomena Keet (Kodansha Int'l, 2007) p86-89.
