Style: Queen of Hearts

While searching Net-A-Porter for Queen of Hearts inspired goods, I came across this amazing Lanvin pin and just had to give it some individual attention.

Music: White Rabbit

Continuing with my Storybook theme and my Alice's Adventures In Wonderland focus, have the White Rabbit sound the trumpets and let me present to you "White Rabbit" from Jefferson Airplane.

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco who became pioneers of psychedelic rock. They were also the first band from the San Francisco scene who achieved mainstream success with their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. Psychedelic indeed.

Art: Grace Coddington for Vogue

 
Grace Coddington is a former model and the brilliant creative director for American Vogue.
 
In 2003, she embarked on an ambitious shoot with photographer Annie Leibovitz to convey the story of Lewis Carrolls' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. 

A Story Inside: Alice of Magic World

A Storybook themed restaurant can either be brilliant or incredibly tragic. This Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant in Tokyo, "Alice of Magic World", is actually kind of brilliant.

Style: Alice from Wonderland

A wonderland of style from Net-A-Porter to outfit you in the style of Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Music: What You Waiting For?

Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock. It is one of my favorite elements in music when an artist puts out a song that is directly inspired by their own life or feelings. "What You Waiting For?" is a brilliant example of this.

Book: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Literary Nonsense". That's exactly how I felt while reading Lewis Carrolls' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and trying to comprehend all the metaphors and innuendos. Wonderland is considered to be one of the best examples of the Literary Nonsense genre. The novel, written in 1865, uses sensical and nonsensical elements to defy language conventions or logical reasoning.

The effect of nonsense is often caused by an excess of meaning, rather than a lack of it. Nonsense is often humorous in nature, although its humor is derived from its nonsensical nature, as opposed to most humor which is funny because it does make sense. Even before I knew that Wonderland was an example of this genre, I knew there was something under the surface of every flamingo croquet stick and deck of cards.

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym for Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Wonderland was a story of his own imagination told to another Reverend and three young girls (one of them being Alice Liddell) while on a row boat trip up the Isis in Oxford, England in 1862. The story featured a bored little girl named Alice who went looking for an adventure.

The three girls loved the story and Alice asked Dodgson to write it down for her. Prompting Dodgson to begin the original manuscript, Alice's Adventures Under Ground. In 1864, he presented Alice with this copy as a Christmas gift and was already planning to expand the story for publication.