Fairytales in fashion: two worlds collide
Once upon a time, there were Valentino rockstuds, Oscar de la Renta ruffles, Chanel lace... The stuff of rose-tinted fantasy for many.
From the runway to the red carpet (we're looking at you, Rihanna), couture gown after couture gown seem to be torn straight from the pages of Grimm's Fairy Tales, while fashion photographers aplenty have created ethereal dreamlands for us to float into through their editorials.
Ahead of the V&A's Tim Walker exhibition, we've rounded up our favourite fashion fairy-tale moments
'Heigh ho, heigh ho'
This re-imagination of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was shot by the legendary Bruce Weber in 1991. It features Beverley Peel as Snow White and the group Another Bad Creation as the dwarves. Long-term collaborator Grace Coddington picked it as her favourite Vogue image of all time, saying:
'Bruce is sentimental; he likes to tell a story through his images. It was a wonderful experience to do a narrative, especially since deciding to cast only black models and musicians challenged the preconceived notions that we have of fairy tales.'
