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VOGUE Fantasy & Fashion
Vogue Fantasy and Fashion, edited by Vogue’s archivist Laird Borrelli-Persson. The tome celebrates the magazine’s many reinterpretations of fantastical tales, from Alice in Wonderland to Snow White.
Turn a page, and you’ll find yourself on a yellow brick road paved with Dior by John Galliano gowns and Marc Jacobs minidresses (“The Wizard of Oz,” December 2005, photographed by Annie Leibovitz).
Flip through again, and you’ll be guided through an enchanted forest by pianist Eddy Duchin, actor Frank Fay, and baseball player Hank Greenberg as a few of the seven dwarfs (“Fables Retold: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” December 15, 1946, photographed by Irving Penn). Other fables get the Steven Meisel or Steven Klein treatment, and many of them have the recognizable stamp of Grace Coddington. Who else could create such covetable wardrobes for our modern-day heroines?
There’s a Surrealist sensibility to many of these spreads, and Borrelli-Persson explains that the movement flourished between the two World Wars. “In order to become better or move forward, we need to be able to dream or imagine something better,” she explains. No wonder she feels it’s newly relevant today.
In the face of a global pandemic, following the yellow brick road to a magical place—if just for a moment—certainly resonates. If only we could slip on ruby slippers to help us through these uncertain times. For now, we’ll find beauty and escape in the pages of Vogue: Fantasy and Fashion. As Borrelli-Persson puts it: “We create fantasies when we need them the most.”
All people in this work:
– Peter Lindbergh – Photographer
– Steven Klein – Photographer
– Steven Meisel – Photographer
– Grace Coddington – Fashion Editor/Stylist
– Phyllis Posnick – Fashion Editor/Stylist
– Julien d’Ys – Hair Stylist
– Pat McGrath – Makeup Artist
– Stephane Marais – Makeup Artist
– Mary Howard – Set Designer
– Aymeline Valade – Model
– Bette Franke – Model
– Elza Matiz – Model
– Zuzanna Bijoch – Model
All brands in this work:
– Dior by John Galliano
– Dolce Gabbana
– Marc Jacobs
