Victoria: When did you start your business, Three Muses Inspired Clothing?
Candy: I had been doing costuming on the side for a long time, but decided to make it official and get my business license in May 2005. I originally called the company Three Muses after me, my mom and my grandmother, but when I went to register the business name I found there were already several companies with the same name. I tacked on inspired clothing to set the name apart. I didnt use costumes because I didnt want to be pigeonholed to one thing. Costumes to me are inspired clothing.
Victoria: What was the first costume you ever made?
Candy: I made costumes with my mom since I was very little, but the first one I made all on my own was Aeon Flux from MTVs Liquid Television in 1995. Wearing that out was an amazing experience. We hit every costume contest over Halloween weekend and I won 6 in a row. That was my first hint that maybe I could do something bigger with this costuming thing.
Victoria: Youve created costumes for some famous clients and even a Hollywood film. Can you tell my readers where your work has appeared?
Candy: My work has appeared in lots of random places from magazines to TV shows. The most well-known costume that pops up the most is the sci-fi slave girl aka Slave Leia. People will recognize that one from the movie Fanboys, where its worn by Kristen Bell at the end of the movie.
Victoria: You told me a story about entering a costume contest as Slave Leia that literally brought 300 people to their feet. Tell my readers the exciting tale!
Candy: I had been doing costuming on the side for a long time, but decided to make it official and get my business license in May 2005. I originally called the company Three Muses after me, my mom and my grandmother, but when I went to register the business name I found there were already several companies with the same name. I tacked on inspired clothing to set the name apart. I didnt use costumes because I didnt want to be pigeonholed to one thing. Costumes to me are inspired clothing.
Victoria: What was the first costume you ever made?
Candy: I made costumes with my mom since I was very little, but the first one I made all on my own was Aeon Flux from MTVs Liquid Television in 1995. Wearing that out was an amazing experience. We hit every costume contest over Halloween weekend and I won 6 in a row. That was my first hint that maybe I could do something bigger with this costuming thing.
Victoria: Youve created costumes for some famous clients and even a Hollywood film. Can you tell my readers where your work has appeared?
Candy: My work has appeared in lots of random places from magazines to TV shows. The most well-known costume that pops up the most is the sci-fi slave girl aka Slave Leia. People will recognize that one from the movie Fanboys, where its worn by Kristen Bell at the end of the movie.
Victoria: You told me a story about entering a costume contest as Slave Leia that literally brought 300 people to their feet. Tell my readers the exciting tale!
Candy: That was about 10 years ago in San Diego when I made my first Slave Leia costume. I had never seen anyone wear one ever. Now they travel in packs! I dont think the crowd had ever seen one either. I entered the costume contest and kept my robe wrapped around me the whole time until I stepped on stage. When I got to middle, I dropped the robe and spun around. The crowd went crazy, and right there in the middle of the contest the DJ announced I think we know who won this contest!
Victoria: What is your favorite costume that you have created?
Candy: All my versions of Wonder Woman. Shes my favorite character to do, but I dont like wearing the same outfit all the time. I keep making different versions of her outfits.
Victoria: You also have a successful career as a model and have been featured in magazines like FHM. How long have you been modeling and where has that lead you?
Candy: I started modeling at 20, which is pretty late to get started in modeling if you want to do fashion work. I had the height but at 59 and barely 110 lbs, I was still told I was too curvy for fashion and the agencies sent me on swimwear and commercial jobs. I also spent a lot of time as a promo and trade show model. I traveled a lot while modeling, from one coast to another. I even spent a month in Cancun as a Bacardi spokesmodel.
It was fun for a while but I got tired of the constant traveling and was very bored of all the swimwear work. I got into modeling because of the unique hair, make-up, clothes the crazy editorial fashion shoots. There was nothing very interesting about shooting swimwear. Catalog shoots would be the same hair and make-up and quickly changing in and out of 50 bikinis. So I started bringing things I had made and shooting that on the side. Then I started setting up my own costume shoots. I kept the regular modeling going so I had money to start my costume business. Once the business got going well, I stopped shooting bikinis and started shooting the fun stuff I wanted to do. And the fact that I was shooting it for my own business made it even better.
Victoria: You also have a degree in journalism, correct?
Candy: I have a degree in Magazine Journalism from the University of Florida. Its amazing how much I use everything I learned. I couldnt have picked a better major because so much today is communication based, but I should have minored in business. Instead I chose Cultural Anthropology. I had wanted to be an archaeologist ever since seeing Indiana Jones as a kid. Then I spent a semester cataloging pottery shards and found out it was not all about hacking your way through the jungle searching for lost cities of gold. I still love archaeology so I kept it as a minor.
Victoria: You recently created a stunningly sexy version of Harley Quinn. What was the creative process like?
Candy: Thank you! We were going to the Arkham Nights after-party and I wanted to do Harley, but not one that had already been done. I did the Arkham Asylum version previously at DragonCon. I figured there would be a lot of those there. The creative process basically was to go through boxes of costume stuff, pull out everything black and red and then assemble it as a costume. I added a few finishing touches to pull it all together and viola! I also made a matching hammer, which makes a fun prop.
Victoria: What is your favorite convention to attend?
Candy: DragonCon! Nothing else like it. The way it is set-up and the people that attend its the perfect storm of costuming.
Victoria: Can you give us a sneak peak on what youre working on next?
Candy: There are several projects in the works, as usual. Im re-doing my Rystall costume for CV6 and were planning a big cybergoth themed Alice in Wonderland group for DragonCon. Its a bit of a tradition since my first D*C. Weve done a wonderland group every year, but change it up a little each time. Its fun to get a lot of people involved and do a whole group of related characters. So far I have a cool pair of goggles and boots. Its the middle part I need to work on!
Im also really excited about our new YouTube channel where weve been doing a weekly round-up of stuff going on with Three Muses called MuseWeek http://www.youtube.com/user/ThreeMusesClothing
Boutique website: www.threemusesclothing.com
My costumes: http://www.candykeane.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/threemusesinspiredclothing
Twitter: www.twitter.com/3musesclothing
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