“Gothic lolita”, is most peoples go-to mental image when they think of Lolita fashion. The original concept of Lolita was modesty and a basis in Victorian fashion and quality of manufacture, so gothic style lolita dresses are often long, frilly and have dark colour schemes. The style became popular in the 1990s in Harajuku as it mixed the then very popular goth fashion movement with the growing Lolita fashion trend. Brands known for selling Gothic Lolita clothing are Atelier- Pierrot, Alice And The Pirates and Moi- Meme-Moitie. For the design of Adele, her outfit is based on the more complex modern Gothic lolita style, which incorporates more elaborate prints, frills, head dresses and accessories, with a focus on colours such as gold and crimson and well as just black. This particular subset of lolita fashion (Mori, meaning forest in Japanese) is based around “Sweet lolita” but using more earthy and cream tones than the garish pinks and purples that Lolita brands like Angelic Pretty are known for. In my research throughout various lolita blogs I tended to notice that the vast majority of lolita wearers stick to a very particular colour palette, and the brown/cream scheme was particularly popular. A lot of designs have prints that have things such as chocolate, biscuits and teddy bears on them, which lends itself well to this colour scheme. “Sweet lolita” is the lighter, fluffier counterpart to Gothic Lolita, adopting the silhouette and using lighter pastel colours and child like designs (such as carousels, kittens, teddy bears, confectionery etc. etc.). Unlike Brigittes design, Colette's is based more on the traditional colour palette of sweet Lolita, which is a lot of pink and lilac and white. Makeup and wigs are also a large part of the sweet Lolita look, many sweet Lolita's wear bright pink cheeks, pastel coloured wigs, long false eyelashes and unusually coloured contact lenses to emphasize the fantasy, dream like cuteness of the designs. Colette is representative of the growing popularity of Lolita fashion outside of its original Japanese fanbase, as it is now easy to find large communities of non-Japanese or white women who enjoy wearing Lolita fashion all over the globe. Originally I had concieved of Delphine's design just generically representing Sweet Lolita fashion (later relegated to Colette) but then I decided I wanted to base the design on her dress on the prints of a particularly popular Sweet Lolita brand, Angelic Pretty. The basis of the dress design is taken from the Dream Carousel dress line, featuring pastels, stars, hearts and unicorns. Delphine, is shown as being incredibly dedicated to Lolita Fashion, as she is out of bed the minute her alarm rings, picks out co-ords effortlessly and has cut her hair short so it's easier to fit under her very elaborate wigs. She is an excitable person who doesn't do anything in small measures and loves to dress herself in a way that she believes expresses her personality, which is why I thought she would be a good protagonist for an animation about anticipation. She wakes up burning with anticipation every time she knows she can dress herself up. She also represents the dedication one needs to dress in Lolita Fashion, as the dresses are often very expensive and the outfits on a whole involve a lot of elements and co-ordination, which would be very hard work especially for more hardcore Lolita practitioners who wear the fashion on a daily basis.