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- Mar 28, 2006
In the spirit of the current craze for the 10 years challenge - Javi in 2017, the Worlds SP. It is almost hard to understand it is the same person skating!
The costume(s) in 2007 Euros and Worlds were seemingly going with the themes in music - the Euros costume was referring to ancient Egypt rather than Armenia, but the music sort of allows it and he even has a few "Egyptian" arm moves. The Worlds SP was on Bruce Lee and the martial arts kit comes naturally from that.
He has never worn overtly blingy or frilly costumes, they have always been part of what he was doing on the ice, on the character etc. His hair got cut to a shorter style when he moved to Toronto and it has been like that ever since. I suspect that they have access to better designers, more money was maybe put into his costumes particularly after he started to win and get regular show gigs. But I also think that the costuming and hairstyle has been influenced very strongly by Brian Orser's sense of aesthetics, probably more than Javi himself or even David Wilson (as a choreographer he might have ideas about costumes as well). They probably agree on what fits and gets used, but Brian is maybe the lead. Look at how Jason Brown got overhauled stylistically and what he said eg about his ponytail - that it was Brian who wanted it gone.
Mid-December he gave in interview for Locas por vivir conference (or community or whatever) and they posted it in YT today. I did not have much time with it today, but discussion was on how to deal with pressure, stress, success, fans etc. The ladies are about lifestyles and well-being etc.
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The costume(s) in 2007 Euros and Worlds were seemingly going with the themes in music - the Euros costume was referring to ancient Egypt rather than Armenia, but the music sort of allows it and he even has a few "Egyptian" arm moves. The Worlds SP was on Bruce Lee and the martial arts kit comes naturally from that.
He has never worn overtly blingy or frilly costumes, they have always been part of what he was doing on the ice, on the character etc. His hair got cut to a shorter style when he moved to Toronto and it has been like that ever since. I suspect that they have access to better designers, more money was maybe put into his costumes particularly after he started to win and get regular show gigs. But I also think that the costuming and hairstyle has been influenced very strongly by Brian Orser's sense of aesthetics, probably more than Javi himself or even David Wilson (as a choreographer he might have ideas about costumes as well). They probably agree on what fits and gets used, but Brian is maybe the lead. Look at how Jason Brown got overhauled stylistically and what he said eg about his ponytail - that it was Brian who wanted it gone.
Mid-December he gave in interview for Locas por vivir conference (or community or whatever) and they posted it in YT today. I did not have much time with it today, but discussion was on how to deal with pressure, stress, success, fans etc. The ladies are about lifestyles and well-being etc.
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) and replaces the deleted ones with a lesser known videos or fancams of the same event. 
I think it's the first interview, from 2016. And he also said he had two costume designers who send their ideas and Brian/Tracy/David/Javi then decide. One of the designers specializes more in theatre / opera costumes, so he works with materials that are not so often used in figure skating. He did the first Charlie and also Elvis iirc...) Javi's "TCC" costumes are always great 
To be fair the interview was done almost three weeks ago so I hope it changed 
Eager to see him compete, although I'm sad this is his last competition
: Even though Javi was nowhere to be seen, we met some amazing people during our adventures trying to secure banner space. From a lovely local girl who not only helped us fix the banners but accompanied us all day to help with language and logistics around the arena, to the absolutely amazing volunteer girls who worked with us tirelessly to get approvals and make arrangements in order to get the banners up to the very very limited suitable spaces, to Javi fans from China(!) and Japan(!!!), I'm just in love with the figure skating community! :luv17:
