What If Disney s Frozen Had Fashion?
This past weekend, I found myself avoiding Saturday night socializing in favor of something that ended up being far, far more exciting: a midnight viewing of Frozen (which comes out on DVD today—I watched it on iTunes).
At this point, and for all intents and purposes, the Oscar-winning film is a pop culture phenomenon, a crystalline supernova of cyan-tinged, vaguely Scandinavian, and ultimately lovable cartoon characters whose fame seems to rival that of **Beyoncé’**s or **Lady Gaga’**s. Everyone, from every generation, is talking about Frozen, or Instagramming screen shots of it with quotes for captions and hashtags of glee, or singing it. Case in point: The “Let It Go” sequence—that insanely uplifting, shake-it-off and you-do-you ballad piped out by main character Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel—read this slowly, Mr. Travolta)—has nearly 150 million views on Disney’s YouTube channel.
About halfway through the aforementioned song, my viewing partner giddily inquired, “Is that dress Rodarte?” A fit of tear-inducing laughter later, we realized, well, actually, it could be Rodarte (the gown in question is ice-blue and sparkly). This launched a Vogue.com-facilitated investigation of recent runway seasons, and, lo and behold, more sartorial correlations were found. Thus, here we propose a very important question: What if Frozen had 2014 fashion?
Photo: © 2013 - Disney1/12This is Anna, the earnest do-gooder princess, the kind of naïf aristocrat who gets engaged to a man approximately fifteen minutes after meeting him, then leaves him in charge of the fiefdom whilst she tracks down her confused and vulnerable sister. She’s socially awkward, but you’d be too if you were kept in isolation for most of your childhood years. This dress, though, which she wears to her putative debutante ball, is not meek, nor blundering . . . .
Photo: Yannis Vlamos/Indigitalimages.com2/12From the Spring collections, this Carolina Herrera jade gown might suit Anna well, in that it’s a little more appropriate for a world eternally cast in summertime . . . .
Photo: Yannis Vlamos/Indigitalimages.com3/12But then of course there’s this number from Valentino spring couture, which is lent a bit more of a noble touch thanks to its diamante collar . . . .
Photo: Kim Weston Arnold/Indigitalimages.com4/12We think, though, that Anna would probably end up picking this fall dress from Valentino, as it’s basically the exact same color and shape as seen in the film, replete with red flowers (she is a romantic, after all).
Photo: © 2013 - Disney5/12Here’s Anna in a pretty chic (if impractical) hiking outfit—she’s actually unknowingly on point for fall 2014, in which vibrant and inventive outerwear is a standout trend . . . .