'Vogue: Fantasy and Fashion,' edited by Vogue’s archivist Laird Borrelli-Persson, celebrates the magazine’s many reinterpretations of fantastical tales, from Alice in Wonderland to Snow White.
Alice in Wonderland. Turn a page, and you’ll find yourself on a yellow brick road paved with Dior by John Galliano gowns and Marc Jacobs mini-dresses . Flip through again, and you’ll be guided through an enchanted forest by pianist Eddy Duchin, actor Frank Fray, and baseball player Hank Greenberg as a few of the seven dwarfs . Other fables get the Steven Meisel or Steven Klein treatment, and many of them have the recognizable stamp of Grace Coddington.
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. As Borrelli-Persson put it: “We create fantasies when we need them the most.”
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