Where Are You, Olga?: Tim Burton

Tim Burton is famed for his dark, whimsical movies with some beautiful fetish-inspired costumes. My personal favourite of his big movie list is the Gothic but naive Edward Scissorhands. I'm also quite looking forward to his new 'Alice in Wonderland' interpretation, which is due to be released in 2010. Expectations from the movie must be quite high - at least mine are, because a book so brilliantly written needs a brilliant movie.

It's fascinating how in Burton's movies costumes take almost the central position in every character creation. Just like some of the characters from Alice-to be:

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The pictures hint at an elegant, richly textured fantasy world that honors Lewis Carroll’s 19th-century fairy tale while incorporating bits of Burton’s trademark weirdness (check the grimacing flowers in the pictures below).