Birds: Cute? Creepy? Couture?

Birds for some reason have become a muse of sorts for creative geniuses of different genres, waxing and waning between extremes of immense cuteness, subversive allure, and incomprehsible couture. it's like we've fixated on them, for perhaps the vulnerability that they have; their delicate beauty. Here are some of my favorite bird-inspired objects and fashions of late. I myself can't decide which one I like the most.

Cute

On the cute corner we have, of course, the Disney Princess Snow White who often enlists birds and other critters to do the cleaning up for her. (Ditto for Enchanted's Princess Gisele).


I do adore these collage prints from Mulberry Muse artist Wendy Paula Patterson. Love the robins egg blue, the decidedly French femininity, the delicious feeling of nostalgia.


Artist Lizzie Buckmaster Dove's (how coincidental, noh?) pop-up masterpieces are another fave. The clever mix of vintage zoological illustrations with the whimsical 3D shapes is just genius, don't you think?


Creepy

Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller The Birds, starring Tippi Hedren really set the bar for stylish avian horror. Of course, there is nothing horrific with Tippi's gorgeous and prim ensembles.


Check out this hauntingly beautiful editorial from Vogue starring super sylph Tanya.


Couture

Royal Ascot fever seems to have taken hold of the runways, as seen on this circular wonder from Ralph Lauren, and John Galliano's threatrical rendition. They're not exactly my cup of tea, but they set off the clothes beautifully.


Trust Carrie Bradshaw to put a bird on her head and still look good.

Carrie: i put a bird on my head for him...
Miranda?: oh, is that what it was? i thought it was feathers-
Carrie: no. it was a bird



Fendi's feather mini is a tough chick rendition that i really I wouldn't mind wearing, while Sonia Rykiel's ethereal print reminds me of woodland nymphs and other such storybook notions.

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