Look forward to Camilla Morton’s series of fashion themed fairy tales. The first fairy tale to debut in the series will be Sleeping Beauty, by Christian Lacroix. Each story will be inspired by a designer and loosely based on real life events gone fairy tale. I love this idea and would like to own each book in the series. For me, fashion and fairy tales are very much related. When most women think of, or, are asked to describe their idea wedding day, they automatically go into princess mode. They want to look like a princess, feel like a princess, or be a princess, if only for that day. The guy standing next to them is so far from the guy that will not take out the trash, wash the dishes, pick up his socks or get up in the middle of the night with the baby. He is Prince Charming. Next up Morton will magically fictionalize Manolo Blahnik in the tale of The Elves and the Shoemaker. Read more about it by clicking on the link above.
Any story that begins with the words “once upon a time” is pretty much guaranteed to follow a well-trod narrative path populated by princesses, evil step-relations, maybe a frog. But in the hands of Camilla Morton, fairy tales are taking a very fashionable twist. “It all started when I was trying to explain my job to my godson,” Morton says. “And, I realized when you watch a couture show come together — the drama, the glamour — you literally see magic.” For “Christian Lacroix and the Tale of Sleeping Beauty,” the first of what will be a series of fantasy designer biographies (Manolo Blahnik and the tale of the elves is up next), Morton has spun the ............
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