I agree with some others, I loved the costumes, but a lot of them just weren't very practical to move in.
Like that jacket he designed for BOW, I mean if I would have the money, that jacket would be hanging in my closet right now, but how on earth was petite Michael going to be able to move in a 10 pound heavy jacket? That's just too heavy to dance in, especially for someone his size and maybe even age.
And the HTW/WATW jacket, like Zaldy said..it's all metal so it's making sound. It was making a lot of noise around his wrists, not cool at all. His wrists and arms are very close to the microphone. The sounds of the jacket would mix up with his voice in the mic.
And then you had the WBSS outfit, which looked weird imo. Again, too many things that make the outfit heavy like the crystals. On top of that, Michael would be wearing those huge shoulder pads (which apparantly don't weigh a lot) which look very ''loose'' to me. Michael would be moving, jumping, dancing a lot during WBSS and it wouldn't suprise me if one of those shoulderpads would come off during his movements, it doesn't look like they are very good attached to the outfit imo.
I liked the Thriller outfit, it looked like Zaldy moved some light and flexibel fabric. It looks a lot more practical than some of the Thriler jackets Michael had worn before. It looked cool and hot, I want one in my closet asap!
I also liked what he did with the loafers and pants.
I loved the J5 suit, altough it didn't really fit the J5 theme imo. I'd expected the WATW/HTW jacket to be J5 and the purple suit to be for Dangerous or something. I think it's a little bit to dark for the J5 theme. Especially when I look at the decor they were going to use, which was all orange/yellow/retro, the purple suit would have looked horrible with that background.
But I loved it, it would have looked so good on Michael!!
I liked the MITM jacket, but just not for that performance. I prefer Michael singing it with just some simple plain longsleeve button up, instead of wearing a swarovski beaded jacket. It would have take away the message he was trying to bring across I think. Like when Beyonce was singing ''Halo'' for Hope for Haiti in a $8000 Balmain jacket. I was like ''Damn girl, you're singing for people who are poor right now, but you are wearing a $8000 jacket. You could have spend that money on those children who need it right now''.
We, as fans, know what kind of person Michael is and that he is always helping people. But it would make no sense for people who are just casual fans of his music and don't know anything about his social work, for him to stand up on that stage wearing a swarovski beaded jacket that is probably worth $5000 or something to sing how he cannot deny the poor and hungry, while the price of that jacket would probably be enough to feed a small country in Africa, just saying.
I like a lot of the things Zaldy designed, they just don't really look practical for an artist like Mike. He needs to move a lot, I already thought those knee pads he wore during the HIStory tour were not practical, and the outfits Zaldy designed are even more complex.
That heavy jacket for BOW would have make Michael tired, causing him to have less energy for his next performances.
BJ would have been kick ass of course, but I don't really think that Zaldy really thought about how much Michael was going to move. He was constantly busy with being ''innovative, because that's what Michael was all about'', but I think he got a little bit overcaught with it. He was constantly trying to come up with things that look different; adding crystals (crystals are always hard to work with, because they make a fabric ''heavy''), making huge shoulder pads...Michael is no Gaga. He doesn't need to look ''different'' to rock that stage. I think a lot of the thing Zaldy designed just wouldn't have worked on stage and with Michael movements. All of the jacket seem kinda heavy and hard to dance in to me, except for the Thriller outfit and BJ. And I just felt really bad for Michael Bush as well..
Excuse me, I'm on a roll right now.
