Rapunzel at Tulips & Pansies - A Headdress Affair
By: Evangeline Lazaro
Photos below: Rapunzel Headdress by Zang Toi
Photos courtesy of Zang Toi>
NEW YORK, Jun 20, 2003/ FW/ --- It was one very glamorous night in New York's Copacabana
last Monday night. The 3rd Annual Tulips & Pansies - A Headdress Affair, featured New York's top designers
in their most original, most beautiful and most outrageous creation - a headdress.
And please don't call them hats, because they are definitely NOT hats. A better adjective
to use will be 'wearable art.'
Made of fresh flowers, these headdresses are one-of-a-kind creations, specially designed
for this annual affair sponsored by The Village Care New York, a charitable organization which
raise funds to assist New Yorkers living with HIV / AIDS.
The evening’s festivities include a runway show, cocktails, dinner, silent
auction and entertainment by Broadway’s hottest shows including Zanna Don’t,
Rouge, and The Look of Love.
Though it is difficult to choose which one is the highlight of the evening,
(everything was just fantastic), my vote goes to the runway show as the most
glamorous and outrageous.
Headdresses designed by top New York designers and florists which include Tommy Hilfiger,
House of Field and Zang Toi paraded on the runway,
with the "I'm beautiful, I'm pretty, I'm spectacular,' attitude.
One stand-out is 'Rapunzel', a collaboration of Zang Toi and floral designers RRED. Based
on the fairy tale of a beautiful princess with golden hair imprisoned in a tower by an evil
witch, Zang Toi and RRed created a contemporary version of the tale.
Their vision of a modern-day Rapunzel - her long, flowing, golden locks
braided with cascading ivy and romantic shades of pink floral.
But as soon as she hears the call on her cell phone (she does not have a land line
on her ivory tower prison), she lets down her hair, with a dramatic attitude, of course!
The night also included entertainment by Mondo Drama featuring Caroline
Rhea, Siobhán Mahoney, and Miriam Shor.
The event was co-chaired by Diane Von Furstenberg and Alfred Fiandaca.
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