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Showing posts with label clothing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clothing. Show all posts

Friday, July 18, 2008

E.L.A(lice) and Ela (Queen of Roses)

Mentioned in the New York Times article, "Lisbon Comes Alive" (July 13, 2008), clothing store "Storytailors isn’t so much a retail outlet as a cabinet of wonders where the ghosts of Lewis Carroll and the Brothers Grimm haunt the racks. The 18th-century warehouse brims with hoopskirts, corsets and elaborate lace getups adorned with richly patterned fabrics and kaleidoscopic colors. ...each year’s line of clothes began with a classic fairy tale, myth or legend, either Portuguese or international. The [designers] then hire writers to transform it into 'twisted stories,' whose characters and experiences form the basis of various collections. These literary-sartorial mash-ups, [include]... 'E.L.A(lice) and Ela (Queen of Roses)' (the tale of a schizophrenic girl that mixes elements of Alice in Wonderland and a Portuguese myth about a queen that transforms roses into bread for the poor)."

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Clothes for young & old, rich & not poor

The Portugese clothing website dressing fairytales/historias para vestir has several dresses for little girls made with Alice in Wonderland fabric, very colorful, while designer Charles Anastase has a dress for grown-up girls with a black and white Tenniel design (on sale for *only* £240).