Just playing around… like pieces on a chess board.

What happens when you take my favourite book ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll and divide it by one of my favourite photographers Annie Leibovitz… add in some of the worlds top fashion designers (both in person and in attire) and print it in the pages of Vogue….

This does (oh and my mind explodes with joy):

The Model is Natalia Vodianova as Alice here with Olivier Theyskens…

Tom Ford as the White Rabbit…

Marc Jacobs (?)

Karl Lagerfeld…

Jean Paul Gaultier as the Chesire Cat…

Viktor and Rolf as Tweedledee and Tweedledum…

Stephen Jones as the Hatter and Christian Lacroix as the March Hare… 

John Galliano as the Queen of Hearts and as his King Alexis Roche…

Donatella Versace and Rupert Everett for the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon… 

Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga as Alice’s Cat Dina… 

Now 1) if I need to explain to you who these people are you need a slap, and 2) if I need to explain the characters or situations from the books to you, you need more than a slap…

I posted this before on the previous incarnation of the blog but I couldn’t find the pictures I wanted to post today… So more tomorrow when I get done with work… for now, Gregory Crewdson…

I had the pleasure of viewing the work of Alex Prager at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London some time ago. The narrative suggestions as well as the general attractiveness of the image in terms of catching the eye made the exhibition very compelling. She has something thats a bit Cindy Sherman-esque, helped by her similar appearance but also likely an intentional nod to Sherman’s Oeuvre. Check these out from her ‘Big Valley’ series:

© Alex Prager

(no decent copy exists online so I had to scan this hence the fold line… *sigh*)