Synopses & Reviews
In the fairie world, there is only one top designer of couture and accessories...
Prepare to be enchanted! While humans go about their workaday lives, there is a secret world of well-dressed fairies flitting about in fragile fashions that would take your breath away if only you could see them. Well, now you can. For the first time ever, elusive fairie couturier Ellwand allows mortals a peek at his ethereal designs in Fairie-ality, a catalogue so spectacularly crafted it befits a fairie queen herself. Showcased are nearly 150 creations including dresses, jackets, trousers, shoes, hats, and delicate unmentionables fashioned wholly from feathers, flower petals, shells, seeds, and other materials from nature. Consider these special features:
- Extraordinary production elements, including three specially selected paper stocks
- Metallic inks
- Fold-out booklets
- Vellum envelope with removable fashion card
- Numerous half-, third-, and quarter-pages, notably to showcase garments for a playful mix & match, offering dozens of outfits to create
- Drawings by celebrated fashion illustrator David Downton, capturing the graceful, but rarely glimpsed, fairie attired in Ellwands designs
- Witty and delightfully romantic captions by Eugenie Bird
- A breathless narrative by a young fairie guiding us from The Seasons start through May Day revelry and a Fairie Tale Wedding
Filled with authentic fairie lore that will lure fairie lovers by the legion, this superbly designed volume also offers many clever nods to human fashion history. Its fun, fanciful costume descriptions will amuse the fashion-savvy everywhere, while the stunning array of fashions themselves a veritable dress-up dream will leave readers of all ages spellbound.
Do you believe in fairies? How about high fashion? Enter the exquisite world of fairie fashion where feathered hats are designed for maximum lift, oak leaf jackets boast ample wing vents, and flower-petal flats are easily removable for flight.
Review
"The oversize edition is designed as an haute couture catalog; with saucy copy...and retro-Vogue illustrations it's spot-on and out of this world. Budding designers can test their fashion sense with a spread that overlays several 1/3 pages, allowing perusers to mix and match the ingenious outfits." Publishers Weekly
Review
"Styled as a couture collection for sprites and pixies, Fairie-ality is part children's book, part fashion parody. With its relentlessly whimsical design (foldout invites, vellum pages), it flies a little too close to angel shtick. But the sylphlike gowns...often look lovely levitating. And author David Ellwand replicates the coy cadences of fashion-speak with glee..." Joy Press, The Village Voice
Synopsis
Do you believe in fairies? How about high fashion? Enter the exquisite world of fairie fashion - where feathered hats are designed for maximum lift, oak leaf jackets boast ample wing vents, and flower-petal flats are easily removable for flight.In the fairie world, there is only one top designer of couture and accessories . . .
Prepare to be enchanted! While humans go about their workaday lives, there is a secret world of well-dressed fairies flitting about in fragile fashions that would take your breath away - if only you could see them. Well, now you can. For the first time ever, elusive fairie couturier Ellwand allows mortals a peek at his ethereal designs in FAIRIE-ALITY, a catalogue so spectacularly crafted it befits a fairie queen herself. Showcased are nearly 150 creations - including dresses, jackets, trousers, shoes, hats, and delicate unmentionables - fashioned wholly from feathers, flower petals, shells, seeds, and other materials from nature. Consider these special features:
Extraordinary production elements, including three specially selected paper stocks; metallic inks; fold-out booklets; vellum envelope with removable fashion card; and numerous half-, third-, and quarter-pages, notably to showcase garments for a playful mix & match, offering dozens of outfits to create.
Drawings by celebrated fashion illustrator David Downton, capturing the graceful, but rarely glimpsed, fairie attired in Ellwands designs.
Witty and delightfully romantic captions by Eugenie Bird.
A breathless narrative by a young fairie guiding us from The Seasons start through May Day revelry and a Fairie Tale Wedding.
Filled with authentic fairie lore that will lure fairie lovers by the legion, this superbly designed volume also offers many clever nods to human fashion history. Its fun, fanciful costume descriptions will amuse the fashion-savvy everywhere, while the stunning array of fashions themselves - a veritable dress-up dream - will leave readers of all ages spellbound.
Synopsis
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About the Author
Eugenie Bird is a writer who leads a busy life covering the newest developments in the world of fairie
haute couture while flying between homes in the Middle West and New England. Her farm is a well-known gathering place of
fashionistas searching for tranquility away from the hurly-burly of New York, London, and European fashion centers.
David Downtown's renowned and widely published portraits of winged and unwinged supermodels have earned him fame in both style circles. His illustrations of the designs of Dior, Chanel, Valentino, and Lacroix have appeared in top fashion magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, and In Style. He lives in East Sussex, England.
Ellwand, the premier contemporary designer of urban and field wear for the Other People, keeps his atelier in the ancient bluebell groves of West Sussex, England. Outside, a tiny unmarked door offers no sign to passersby, allowing the designer his privacy. Inside, masses of wildflowers, dried grasses, feathers and seedpods, pine cones, and polished pretties surround him as he works late into the night, turning his visions into one-of-a-kind realities. The otherworldly garments in Fairie-ality were all designed, handcrafted, and photographed for reproduction by the couturier himself. This is the first time that Ellwand has agreed to share his newest line with a human audience. Ellwand lives with his wife and daughter, just two miles from the site said to be the High Seat of the fairies.