Cosplay to me is having the chance to get in to costumes and become someone else. It’s nice a few days a year and get away from all the things in my life I stress over. So for me cosplay is an escape.

How do you choose what characters to portray?

I try to pick characters of my skin type, there are a lot of charters who I’d like to cosplay who are nice and tan, but obviously I can’t do them. I try and chose something that I can morph in to easily.

Do you have any advice for young or less experienced cosplayers who are getting involved in cosplay?

Pick an easy costume; don’t try to do a Gundam mobile suit for your first costume. As over done as it might seem, just do a simple school outfit. Do something you can buy a pattern for, you can changed the colors and add details to it. Get something that’s easy for you, especially if you’ve never sewn before. Because reading off a pattern can be difficult, and you don’t want to attack something that has too much on it that you don’t know how to do. Take baby steps, and when you get a fell for the sewing you can take on more challenging projects.

Do you have a favorite costume?

It would be the two Seek costumes I put out. For one not a lot of cosplayers do body paint. That and Seek him self saw them and he showed that he really liked them and that he was impressed. It means a lot to me when some one who designed the costume sees the costume and they approve. So those costumes are defiantly very special to me, I love getting in to them.

One of the things your known for in the community is proliferating a style, that you not necessarily authored but popularized and are now the center of with your Loli fruits rave outfits, can you talk about that as an in cosplay fashion movement that centers around you?

I started it my first year at Otakon. I saw it in a Gothic Lolita Bible; there was a girl who was wearing a really cute top, colorful tights and boy’s underwear over it. It was in such an old issue that I was just blown away that someone in Japan had done something like that. I started doing the boy cut underwear and sort of Japanese street fashion. I didn’t know a lot about it when I started so I was just mixing a bunch of stuff I liked. I started creating the pony falls and the cyber falls and it just became something people recognized. If some one saw me at a convention they knew exactly who it was, it became ‘that’s Yuffie Bunny no one else dose stuff like that’. It just kind of stuck.

I’ll be honest I liked the attention that I got wearing it. I see so many rave outfits that the conventions that I’m not satisfied looking at. I’m just like that’s so typical, why would you wear something everyone else is wearing. It doesn’t make sense Costumers obviously seek the attention.

Now it’s become a fashion movement, I see other people who are imitating that style, because they’re American I believe there getting it from you and not from the Gothic Lolita Bible. What is being so obviously imitated like?

Well it depends, I’ve had people come up and tell me ‘I did it because of you and I seen other people do it were they’ll be like, ‘no this is mine, I came up with this’. I don’t act like I own the patent or anything; it’s just become something everyone associates with me.

It’s weird seeing some of the other cosplayers wear them, because some times I’m like ‘oh no your wearing it wrong’ but I don’t want to go up to them and seem like a bitch, but whatever.

It’s interesting because, you see the hair falls a lot of other places (like goth shows and raves) but you don’t see them at anime cons, why has it been so slow to catch on in the anime community?

You see them everywhere, at cyber shows, or raves and in the fetish industry. However the two communities aren’t necessarily compatible, there are a lot of anime fans out there who don’t just wear black and silver. I just recently opened up a commission business where I make them for anime fans. I want to offer something different that the cyber industry isn’t offering anime fans. I’m doing cyber versions of anime charters hairs, cyber animals, cat ears attached to the crin. I’ve seen more anime fans get in to it, but it feel like them when they wear it. I’m going to go do something else; I’m going to get some cute colors in there and do something they would defiantly like.

One of the things your well known for is being well known. You’ve had a lot of exposure in other media, on album covers, on MTV, I’ve seen you a lot of other places, some of these media outlets are related to cosplay but is often totally unrelated, however your always very upfront about being a cosplayer and so you’ve reached this wider audience with cosplay. Can you talk a little bit about what that’s like and also about how that happened?

It started when I was on room raiders for MTV, and I think they chose me in part because I made costumes. They were really interested in it, and after that premiered I got a very warm response from it. I thought this could be a really good launch board for getting my self out there. Most of the normal media doesn’t know about costumers. It seemed like a good way to come across as more interesting to them, and even if they weren’t interested in cosplay, it was different.

It got pretty big, it went from MTV to the newspaper, and then to magazines and I just recently did an album cover.

So if there are fans of Yuffie Bunny who are reading this where can they look for you in the Media?

In the media right now I’m working more in the music industry. So hopefully I’ll be doing more album covers. In the future, hopefully more fashion magazines, not in Seventeen or Vogue, I don’t expect to get in to those, but more indy fashion mags. My goal is to get over to Japan and model there.

My website is constantly be updated with everything that I do, the more shoots I do the more people notice the more work I get from it. So right now it’s just a process of whoring myself out and trying to be the best that I can be.