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2026.07.24 Couture on Ice: Yuzuru Hanyu x Satomi Ito Photobook Couture on Ice（クチュール・オン・アイス） 羽生結弦×伊藤聡美 写真集 Info: https://otonaristore.com/products/9784867910887

Thank you, Martina, for asserting my observations. I am so glad that you are still active. Most YouTube channels about Hanyu that I enjoyed and learned a lot are dormant now (like "Figure Skating Fans"). In this past weekend, I came across the blog https://www.tumblr.com/the-real-xmonster. That blog is like a time capsule. From it, I got to observe how people have reacted to every Yuzu incident in real time, more detailed and more shocking than illustrated in Yuzu's biography. I felt like I was traveling backward in time to witness his journey. Moreover, her technical analysis and knowledge about figure skating is so good. I hope the content she left on the blog can be preserved forever, so valuable.

Any fanyu from Saudi Arabia..

Chan had amazing skating skills and a wonderful 4T. His biggest flaw was the axel, he did a lot of mistakes on it. Fernandez has excellent skating skills and he was really good in connecting with the public. Uno's butt sticks a lot. And in order to raise his BV he cut transitions and skated a lot on two feet. He knew how to skate, but to be able to do more jumps, he simplified his skating. The judges should have noticed this and lowered his PCS scores, but they didn't. And his 4F was a really ugly jump. It was always cheated, but the judges gifted him huge scores. There are a lot of skaters better than Chen in spins, transitions and body movement. He learned to jump, and in his programs he did almost only jumps. But he was from US, and between the US press who praised him a lot and US federation who was able to influence the judges, the results were the ones we know.

We first met this beautiful dream figure one winter's day in February as he created a perfect summer day for us in Tokyo Dome

Posting this because I haven't seen it before ! sorry if it was already posted... Aqua behind the scene

THANK YOU for your reply@Lou Because, upon reading it, this book is MAGNIFICENT, with its dedicated costume designer, and it's a SUPERB idea. And to say "COUTURE" (French haute couture) is a guarantee of visual beauty, with a TOP-NOTCH model as well... Anyway, I have EVERYTHING non-French translated because my English is very bad : so I understand perfectly. I'm also sorry about this forum; I wasn't careful when sending French text . What you're about to read is ALWAYS translated by Google...

hello ! @Yuzuwinnie, Yes the name of the photo book is "couture on Ice", as I have understand it is a project of ITO san, the costume designer of Yuzu (and of many skaters in the world). She already have done some exposition and other book about the famous costume that she made, but this time, Yuzu is the only model (in the other books, is was only with the costumes, not the skaters) and the photo shoot was directly on the ice ! So we are really going to see the costume in the environnement they are made for. Some of those costumes have already been worn by yuzu (like the firebird one), and others are completely new. And yes, there was also videos of the photo shoot, and we might see it integrally as well one day but I don't know when... sorry This costume is fabulous too ! Ito san made it for him without any request from him about a program has I have understand, and he use it for his collaboration with Taisei Miyakawa, you can find it on his YouTube channel ! I hope it help to understand ! (sorry I answer in English because this is the internationale forum)

THANK YOU You're a life saver omg 🥹

Bonsoir @Lou , vu que je n'ai pas X ..... je découvre cette histoire de hanche !? : mais aussi qu'est- ce- que c'est ce livre photo qui se nomme ( si je comprend bien " ) COUTURE .... et donc ici c'est un extrait de vidéo de la séance ? : est ce la dite vidéo pourra être visionner dans son ensemble !? et ce costume

This is so beautiful !! can't wait to see the result And the whole debate about Yuzu hip joint on X is hilarious (people are wondering how on earth it is possible to be that flexible with such control ! really it show how much work he puts into everything)

Machine Translated ------------------- 『Couture on Ice』 Special Video (Making-of & Exhibition Guide) ── ⊹ ₊‧ ꒰ა ❄ ໒꒱ ‧₊ ⊹ ── We've prepared a "making-of video" that closely follows the shoot at the exclusive skating rink, and footage of "the exhibition venue starting from 7/24 (※to be released after the exhibition period ends)." Please enjoy the world of the work alongside the photo book. [NEWS]

There's a playlist here with news compilation and interviews : https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ETc4z4Ezm/ This presscon after winning: Just after arriving at the airport:

Yuzu quoted AQUA's post! "I'm so grateful that you're getting excited about it..." (machine translation)

AQUA's Yuzu exhibition is very popular. So many people lining up!

Glorious Peacock King! Only Yuzu could pull off such a costume and look gorgeous in it.

I believe there aren't any videos due to copyright,, I also tried scavenging through YouTube and such but failed to find the full-length video aside from the 'You can speak Japanese' clip (T_T)

I’ve been checking out some other skaters lately, and now I totally get why Patrick Chan is a 3x world champ. People always talk about his “deep edge,” and honestly, his skating is utterly smooth. When I watch Patrick, I sometimes wonder if Yuzu could skate like that—though Yuzu obviously shines in other ways. I still don’t get *how* Patrick manages that flow; it’s like he never loses momentum. Javier’s amazing, too. I noticed his 3-turn entry into jumps, which Yuzu himself said he learned from Javi. Their styles are clearly different, but both have really strong skating, footwork, and jump quality (thanks, Toronto Cricket Club?). My favorite Javi program is his SP at the 2017 Worlds—the 109 he scored there was totally deserved. Sorry, I can’t break it all down better; I’m not an expert, just a casual fan. As for Shoma, his upper body always leans forward—he rarely keeps a straight line from his torso to his legs. His butt kind of sticks out all the time. Yuzu and Javi usually manage to keep their bodies in line, and it just looks way better to me. And honestly, I still don’t really get the hype about Nathan. Spins, transitions, body movement? I feel like plenty of other skaters are stronger in those areas!