Tim Walker’s Pirelli 2018 Calendar Finally Revealed — Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s tale of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the calendar plays on oversizing and whimsical flourishes with help from a blockbuster cast.
Photographed through the fantastical lens of Tim Walker and styled by Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful with set design by Shona Heath, PIRELLI has unveiled pictures from its 2018 calendar: a wondrous celebration of black beauty. Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s tale of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the calendar plays on exaggerated sizing and playful flourishes with help from a blockbuster cast. And Daily Design News is about to share all with you!
2018 PIRELLI CALENDAR
Adwoa Aboah is Tweedledee; Naomi Campbell and Sean Combs are The Royal Beheaders; Slick Woods is The Madhatter; Lupita Nyong’o is The Dormouse; Whoopi Goldberg is The Royal Duchess; Djimon Hounsou is The King of Hearts; RuPaul is The Queen of Hearts; Adut Akech is The Queen of Diamonds; Alpha Dia is the Five-Of-Hearts-Playing-Card Gardener; King Owusu is the Two-Of-Hearts-Playing-Card Gardener; Lil Yachty is The Queen’s Guard; Thando Hopa is The Princess of Hearts; Wilson Oryema is the Seven-Of-Hearts-Playing-Card Gardener; Zoe Bedeaux is The Caterpillar; Sasha Lane is The Mad March Hare; and Duckie Thot is Alice.
“Alice in Wonderland is a story that I’ve drawn on for so long, it’s always been in my work and life. To have a black Alice is to have a new way of seeing Alice,” said Walker at the New York launch of his Pirelli pictures.
The genesis of the idea formed when visiting Roald Dahl’s widow, Felicity aka Lissy Dahl, some five years ago. “She said, ‘Do you know that the Bucket family in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was originally going to be portrayed as a black family?’ And I thought about how much this would have changed things.”
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Source: vogue.com
