It was a bad rumor, don't waste your time looking for a way to reconcile it with what we're getting. Looking for a fashion theme here is as pointless as looking for a hidden 8 theme.

It seems to me that Ghost has two themes like Gaim: Ghost/Fashion like Gaim's Fruit/Warrior. It's just the fashion part is related to transformation/form change and Ghost is the more general theme of the series.

Now that people start mentioning it, this does feel like Gaim 2.0....
We have multiple riders almost immediately out of the gate.
The Icons look similar to the Lockseeds
Gimmick surrounds the head and shoulder.

...Okay, so I'm rapidly running out of fuel, but this does seem to follow some trends that Gaim has...

Except it somewhat makes sense that people could mistaken this for more of a fashion theme rather than ghosts.

Historic figures as lock seeds. Sure why not.

Going with when we first heard the fashion rumor chances are the series main themes were still being ironed out and someone jumped to a keyboard the moment they started talking about fashion which turned into how Ghost changes form. This is why you always take early rumors with a grain of salt; either it's fake or the series is so early in preproduction that what was posted was just brainstorming by the staff.

Am I the only one that sees that Nobunaga Soul as a mid series upgrade. Seems awfully flashy just to be another soul.

Yeah, seems like they're trying to recreate Gaim's gimmick magic. Which I don't mind at all, because Arms Change was easily, easily the best Toku toy gimmick ever.

If its mid-season we wouldnt get it in the first quarter.

if Specter is going to be in the series right off the bat, maybe Specter is the Garren to Ghost's Blade? and we'll get another rider down the way who will use a different belt? maybe even a different set of powers?