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
'Beauty is not hard to define, It is there inside when you open your eyes'
The annual Metiers D'Art collection turned ethereal in 2014 with Karl Lagerfield's acclaimed exhibition at Schloss Leopoldskron. A short-film featuring Cara Delevingne and Pharrell Williams in a modern-day fashion fairy tale coincided with the show, where they sang a duet called 'CC The World'.
