These are beautiful. Marvelous blend of the best of the old with the best of the new. I'd buy one of these if they were a thing. Thanks for sharing those wires too!
There is this program called Marvelous designer, should be of good help for a suit. http://nerohelp.info/uploads/posts/2013-10/1380822590_marvelous_design_02-1280x720.jpg
They are not. It's about firmware. And most companies fail at it. Marvel controllers in SSD's are safer choice. I can recomned Intel 5xx or Crucial M4.
Character I'm making, inspired by feudal Japan Marvelous Designer for the cloths, the braids are done with 3DS Max splines and placed using path deform, body anatomy and extra wrincles on Zbrush