Fashion Fairy Tale Memoirs

I love stories and books. Ever since I was little, my mom had to make changes to the stories because I already knew them by heart and wanted something new and different. Well, this fairy tale memoirs are exactly what I've been waiting for.

Camilla Morton is the writer of these fairy tales with a fashionable twist. “It all started when I was trying to explain my job to my godson,” Morton told the New York Times. “And, I realized when you watch a couture show come together — the drama, the glamour — you literally see magic.”

One of my favorite fairy tales is definitely Sleeping Beauty, probably because I love sleeping. But in this book it's even better because fashion editors play the role of magical god-fairies and Christian Lacroix is the Prince who gives the Princess the dress she always deserved.

The other book is Manholo Blanhnik and The Tale of the Elves and the Shoemaker. I had the chance to see an exhibiton of his work, the blue shoes SJP wore in the Sex and the City Movie, and attend a talk between him and André Leon Talley at SCAD and Mr. Blahnik is a darling man. He is truly dedicated to his shoes, just like a magic shoemaker.

Blahnik's illustrations are beautiful, I propably enjoyed seeing the sketches more than the actual shoes... Maybe because I can't afford the real thing. But I really do think that the drawings are a work of art and would love to have the book at home and see the illustrations whenever I want.

So far, only these two have been publised. But while doing research I found other similar books. I hope they make more because when/if I have a daughter, these are the stories I'll read to her.

*The images and info were taken from this NYT article and Net-A-Porter.