Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition with Dame Vivienne Westwood)

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WESTWOOD’S WONDERLAND: Vivienne Westwood has teamed with Vintage Classics on a special gift edition of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” to mark the tale’s 150th anniversary. This “perfect fit” quality of the cover contrasts with the strangeness of the other major features of Westwood’s anniversary edition. Grace Coddington, former creative director at American Vogue, described it as an “exhausting, exhilarating” and “magical” shoot, and Vodianova brought a combination of wide-eyed innocence and sulky humour to the photos that seemed to befit a contemporary understanding of Alice.

In 2003, American Vogue staged a memorable shoot featuring Natalia Vodianova as Alice wearing a series of custom-designed blue garments.

Wonderland believes in the agency and power of the cards; Alice says, “You’re nothing but a pack of cards”. Wonderland as symbolic of our present day society, and Alice becomes a rebel who sees through this madness. Original and outrageous, British designer Vivienne Westwood is one of the most recognised and influential designers of the late twentieth century. Alice in Wonderland by English author Lewis Carroll is celebrating its 150th anniversary and Vivienne Westwood is marking the milestone by designing a special cover for the book.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 150th anniversary edition has been released on April 4th in England and will be released internationally very soon. It places a moral responsibility on its readers to defy the establishment and, like Alice, notice the inconsistencies in accepted reason. Exchanging Valentines can be an awkward process, especially when you consider “Vinegar Valentines” and other snarky sentiments - whatever your tastes, enjoy the sweet and sour cards alike in this gallery!

Somewhere the book reviewing gods have a list of those classic titles that you cannot deny or begrudge their place in literary history, that are soon to have a 150th birthday party with my name on an invite. End Capitalism”, in its full and angry boldness, shows Westwood seeing things for what they really are. These designers are not alone in having been inspired by the extraordinarily imaginative world created by Carroll. There's her growing, shrinking, going to court, meeting obscure and obtuse critters, and there's her waking from the most famous dream created by mankind (before Dallas, of course).

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.More recently, photographer Tim Walker – whose entire back catalogue, with its interest in eccentric characters, dreamlike scenarios, and dramatic contrasts in scale, could be read as its own kind of wonderland – retold Carroll’s tale for Pirelli’s 2018 calendar. So this book, while honouring one birthday, is a full six years early to celebrate the 150th of what makes it so great. Westwood thinks of Wonderland as a place of conflict: here, Alice’s logic is in tension with that of the characters within Wonderland. By this point, you’d be hard-pressed to find a designer, photographer or stylist who hasn't jumped down the rabbit hole or slipped through the looking glass, whether it’s via Miuccia Prada’s love of headbands, Alice Temperley’s invocations of Alice’s escapism, or Comme Des Garçons making T-shirts featuring customised versions of Tenniel’s illustrations.