Disney Inspired Art & Photography

Disney is famous for bringing fairy tales to life, they have also inspired a number of artists and photographers with their take on story telling.

Here are a few examples:

I believe the next 4 images to be very interesting as the artist has taken the innocent characters of each fairytale and drawn them all in the same original situations but has made them extremely sexual. This way of approaching Disney is a strong contrast to the originals as the characters were made to been as sweet, innocent and child friendly... everything these new interpretations are not!







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Modern Day Interpretations

Over the past couple of years, the trend of brands and companies taking inspiration from fairytales and famous stories has risen.

The most recent adaptation is the films 'Red Riding Hood' and 'Beastly'. They both take the basic storyline of the famous films 'The Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Beauty and The Beast' and have modernised them. To see the different approach to the storylines is interesting as they have made the films extremely new and exciting whilst keeping the old well known aspects which have made them so famous.





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Possible Layouts for our Zine...

Having researched into the famous layouts and patterns that can be seen in the old, original fairytale books, I think that it would be relevant to the topic we are writing about to incorporate some of these old designs and make them modern so it keeps with the theme.

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GHD Fairy Tales

The world famous hair straightening brand GHD used fairy tales as the inspiration behind one of their advertising campaigns a few years ago. They took the original fairy tales and put a modern twist on it, empowering the female characters in the original stories. The adverts were available both in print and on television, you can view the adverts here and here.

Hayley Welton

Different Types Of Cartoon To Be Considered...

Disney: both old fashioned 2D cartoon and the more modern Disney Pixar. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's infamous Tom and Jerry Cartoons (Warner Bros.) Looney Tunes (Warner Bros.) Satoshi Tajiri's Pokemon (Nintendo) Akiyoshi Hongo's Digimon Matt Groening's The Simpsons and Futurama (Fox Broadcasting Company) Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy and American Dad (Fox Broadcasting Company) Posted by Lucy Stevenson

Stella McCartney & Disney

In 2009 Stella McCartney's advertising for her new range was inspired by Disney:





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Hermes & Cinderella

Another brand that have used the inspiration of a well known Disney film is Hermes...

Their 2010 spring/summer line was advertised in the style of the famous, Cinderella.






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Disney Inspiration...

As we plan to create a zine based on the modern take on fairytales and how they would look in today's society, i researched into fairytales as a whole and found that there is a trend within different brands andcompanies who are using disney inspired images and photoshoots for their adverts and products.

An example of this is a series oh photoshoots done by Annie Leibovitz who has photographed celebrities as famous disney characters for the "Year of a million dreams" promotion for Disneyland Paris in 2007.

Alec Baldwin and Olivia Wilde in 'Snow White'


Beyonce, Oliver Platt & Lyle Lovett in 'Alice and Wonderland'


Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony in 'Aladdin'


Scarlett Johanson in 'Cinderella'


Julie Andrews & Abigail Breslin as Disney Fairies


Julianne Moore in 'The Little Mermaid'


Gisele Bundchen, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Tina Fey in 'Peter Pan'


Jessica Biel as 'Pocahontas'


David Beckham as 'Prince Charming'


Rachel Weisz as 'Snow White'


Roger Federer in 'Sword and the Stone'


Vanessa Hudgens & Zac Efron in 'Sleeping Beauty'


Whoopi Goldberg in 'Aladdin'


Penelope Cruz & Jeff Bridges in 'Beauty and the Beast'


Queen Latifah in 'The Little Mermaid'


Keira Knightley & Brice Marden in 'The Wizard of Oz'



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Our Research Blog...

Welcome to our research blog. This will document everything that is relevant to our zine project and show where our inspirations came from.

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