Fashion News: Sue Wong's Alice in Wonderland Collection

Designer Sue Wong is one of the few brands that has been hand-selected by Disney to create a special collection inspired by Tim Burton’s upcoming remake of Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway.

The Sue Wong for Walt Disney Signature collection will feature pieces influenced by key story characters including Alice, the Red Queen and the White Queen and will showcase unique details inspired by the film, such as Victorian antique lace and vibrant details, while offering Sue Wong’s signature style: romance, femininity and amazing hand-detailing.

The collection will launch in February at Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdale’s. Sue Wong joins designers such as Stella McCartney, Tom Binns and LaRok in designing Alice in Wonderland-inspired collections; however, Sue will be offering the only high-end dress collection.

What do you think of Sue Wong's Alice in Wonderland-inspired designs?

Curiouser & Curiouser...Bergdorf Goodman Holiday 2009 Windows

We may have to wait until March to see Tim Burton's take on Alice in Wonderland (still above) but New Yorkers will have a holiday treat to tide them over, starting on November 20 thanks to Bergdorf Goodman.

Inspired by the imaginative works of Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, Bergdorf’s Senior Director of Visual Presentation David Hoey and his team of artists are working at a fever pitch behind the scenes (the windows are shrouded and still in process) to create a “Curiouser and Curiouser” take on scenes and characters portrayed in Carroll’s works.

Here's what you can expect to see:

 

• An all-mirror window will include a floor-to-ceiling Venetian mirror featuring a girl trying to enter a large fireplace as portrayed in Through the Looking Glass.
• A window featuring a library made out of paper will inhabit paper animals such as a cat, flamingo, turtle and a lizard, all taken from Carroll’s fantasies.
• An interpretation of a game room with a regal theme will house a birds-eye-view of a chess game and will feature a King and Queen playing with over-sized chess pieces. The window will be filled with playing cards, a vintage roulette wheel and several games such as mahjong and backgammon.
• A Victorian themed window will depict a tree house surrounded by a forest of roses and a girl sitting on a tree branch playing with a Cheshire cat.
• The all-wood, ‘Drink Me’ window, inspired by Alice in Wonderland, will be the most fanatically detail-focused window, filled with an excess of staircases ranging from full-scale to tiny. The window will contain hundreds of staircases all connecting into little doorways and rooms and will feature a full-size mannequin standing with a miniature girl who holds the key to one of the doorways.

 

Bergdorf Goodman is located at 5th Avenue and 58th Street. Visit the holiday windows from November 20 through January 6, 2010.

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