Chanel Haute Couture satin jacket and skirt.
Happy Birthday, Natalia Vodianova!
Fashion editor, Grace Coddington.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
Hair: Julien dYs/Island dYs; makeup, Gucci Westman.
Set design by Mary Howard.
Prop fabrication by Jean Hugues de Chatillon.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
Lewis Carroll dressed her as an innocent in satin and ribbons.
Disney made her flaxen-haired and saucer-eyed.
NowVOGUEjoins this illustrious roster, with Annie Leibovitzs photographs of a cast drawn from fashions own often fantastical universe.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
Alice is my dream girl, and so is Natalia, says Grace Coddington,VOGUES creative director.
Shes a rare, rare model.
Her trip has been every bit as fantastical as Alices fall down the rabbit-hole.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
Leibovitz cast the poetic Olivier Theyskens, a photographer himself, as Dodgson the cameraman.
Like Leibovitz, Theyskens is a great admirer of Dodgson and his contemporaries.
I love the timeless beauty and freshness of those girls, says Theyskens.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
They are so lovely, like little cats.
Standing next to an elaborate antique camera apparatus for his portrait, Theyskens felt transported in time.
It took so long to take pictures back then that little children were almost sleeping, Theyskens says.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
And Annie said to Natalia, Youre entering a dreamland!
and she was nearly asleep, too!
Wonderland was the reality, and in a way it still is!
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
Jones, naturally enough, playedVOGUES Mad Hatter, whom he describes as his professions patron saint.
Tom Ford was similarly enthusiastic about his casting as the fastidious White Rabbit.
Ford wore a perfect white suit from his Saint Laurent mens collection.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
He was immaculate, with a little camellia and little white gloves, Coddington says.
But he was unprepared for the scenario that Leibovitz had conceived for his character.
Coddington reports with a laugh.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
He was really a good sport.
(Cary Grant played the role in Paramounts version; he wept through his rendition of the song.)
And Jean Paul GaultierI couldnt imagine anyone else as the Cheshire Cat, Vodianova says.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
As a child I tried desperately to climb trees, but I never succeeded, he says.
Until now, at the age of 50!
Cats are supposed to be very agile, but this was the contrary: a paralyzed cat!
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
The cast members each had an opportunity to realize the Alice gown of their childhood dreams.
Coddingtons only injunction was to create something in Alices signature blue.
The designers rose to the challenge of their own costumes, as well.
Photographed by Annie Leibovitz,Vogue,December 2003
Christian Lacroix arrived in a suitable crumpled suit to play the distracted March Hare.
A Louis XVI folly garden beloved of the Surrealists was the setting.
I feel very chosen, Vodianova says, byVOGUEbut also by the book, which is very precious.
Alice is a very special little girl.
Olivier Theyskens, in the guise of Carroll, captures model Natalia Vodianova as Alice Liddell.
Natalia wears a Rochas iridescent blue-flower ruffle dress specially designed by Theyskens.
I wonder if I shall fall rightthroughthe earth!
How funny itll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards!
The Antipathies, I think
DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLEFaster, faster, faster she fell!
Chasing Tom Fords White Rabbit, our Alice disappears down the never-ending dark passage.
Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche sky-blue silk-satin dress.
And yetand yetits rather curious, you know, this sort of life!
.How was Alice to know the innocent little bottle would make her grow to such a size?
Dress from the Helmut Lang made-to-measure studio.
Details, see In This Issue.
BEAUTY NOTE Go ask Alice: For sweet-little-girl lips, try LOreal Colour Juice in Raspberry Smash.
and how have I gotten here?
As visiting royal Karl Lagerfeld looked on, Alice caught the baby, which grunted violently.
Chanel Haute Couture embroidered satin jacket with a draped satin skirt and cream leather boot pants.
The Chanel designer wears Chrome Hearts necklaces and belt.
Were all mad here.
Im mad, youre mad.
How do you know Im mad?
Alice asked sweetly of the cat with a grin as devilish as anything she had ever seen.
Blue silk-jersey draped dress by Gaultier Paris.
I know what youre thinking about, said Tweedledum, but it isnt so, nohow.
Rolf Snoeren,left,and Viktor Horsting wear matching suits and bow ties of their own design.
Your hair wants cutting, said the Hatter.
He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity.
the March Hare and Mad Hatter shouted.
But Alice plunked herself down, desperate for some biscuits after a long day of living backward.
Christian Lacroix Haute Couture dress with painted and sculpted mink dickey over a lace top and frilled lame skirt.
Stephen Jones (right) wears a custom-made hat of his own design.
Lacroix, as the March Hare, is at far right.
You make me giddy!
Dior Haute Couture by John Galliano hand-painted polka-dot dress.
Reeling and Writhing, the Mock Turtle replied.
And then the different branches of ArithmeticAmbition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
I never heard of Uglification, Alice ventured to say.
THE MOCK TURTLES STORYWhat is his sorrow?
Alice, in Atelier Versace, asked the Gryphon.
Once, sighed the Mock Turtle, I was a real turtle.
Atelier Versace layered silk-tulle and chiffon-organza dress lined in lace.
Donatella Versace and Rupert Everett are in Versace.
How nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass House!
Im sure its got, oh!
such beautiful things in it!
Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquiere crystal pleated silk chiffon dress and gray ankle boots.
Shot on location at the Chateau de Corbeil-Cerf.
