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
"Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate"
Photographed in August 2006 by Tim Walker, this editorial for British Vogue was shot at Glenham Hall in Suffolk. It featured Guinevere Van Seenus as the modern incarnation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Princess and the Pea.
