#couture council

[redcarpet-streetstyle]

[costumedump]

The Girl Who Lived In The Tree Collection

London, England

Fall/Winter 2008-2009, Commissioned 2010

Designed By Alexander McQueen

Acquiring Beauty: FIDM Museum Fashion Council, Est. 2011

FIDM Museum And Galleries

[semra-world85]

SHERRI HILL FASHİON

@semra-world85

[arquivonuvem]

Weekly Fashion News Report

The British Fashion Council released the first schedule for the London Fashion Week. The event will take place from September 15-18 (London Fashion Week)

After 10 years, Beyoncé is returing to the fragance industry. The singer/songwriter announced the perfume on her website in which is already available for pre-order for U$160 (WWD)

Balenciaga will be returning to its historical address in 10-12 Avenue George V. The location in which Cristóbal Balenciaga opened the French Couture House in 1937, will be used as the brand's main Couture and creative studio (Hypebeast)

Prada partnered with chinese women's soccer team (CNN)

In celebration of its 30th anniversary of the brand, Victor & Rolf release colaboration with Superga. The capsule collection includes reinterpretation of 2 different sneakes in the colors black, white and pink (WWD)

[game-of-style]

Maris Baratheon - Elie Saab Haute Couture Fall 2023

Maris Baratheon was a noblewoman from House Baratheon during the Dance of Dragons.  She was one of the four daughters of Lord Borros Baratheon of Storm’s End. She and her sisters were known as the Four Storms. According to her father, Lord Borros Baratheon, Maris was the cleverest of the Four Storms. She was less comely than her sisters, and grew angry that Prince Aemond preferred them to her At the start of the Dance of the Dragons, Prince Aemond Targaryen was sent by the green council to Storm’s End to gain the support of its lord for the greens. Lord Borros offered the hand of any of his four daughters to the prince, noting that Maris would make a clever wife. Aemond agreed to a betrothal, though the identity of the daughter is not known, save it was not Maris.

[gladosluver]

ooooh you'll share your hcs about the student council (and ryota too ig) ooooooohh, i am a ghost here to tell you to do so.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHH AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

heres a bunch of random headcanons i need to get out of my system!!!

tsubasa can play a piano and violin. aiko can play the flute. suzuko plays a clarinet. tomohiko can play a kalimba and shoji could do some CRAZY shit on an electric guitar and keyboard

karen owns a cat. or two. or three or four or five.. asukasei is deathly allergic and would start sneezing if they got too close to each other

sosuke goes to a haunted house all high and mighty just to scream at fucking EVERYTHING

kotomi used to think that "railing" someone meant to hit them with a train, not fuck them. she only learned the truth after she got mad and yelled "IM GONNA RAIL YOU" at kiriko and was confused why she started laughing

asukasei, aiko, and soshun have the cilantro soap gene

suzuko gets coffee every morning and orders the CRAZIEST drinks ever. like im talking that 15 sugar 9 caramel 12 mocha 7 cream type shit. she drinks it all too

daiki could prepare a 3 course meal for everyone and say it's "just some light work" and meanwhile soshun and sosuke cant even use a microwave properly

when they cant find something to suit their fashion preferences, suzuko and aiko get together and make their own clothes. ryota joins them and makes his own stuffed animals

taro woke up screaming one night because he had a dream taco bell discontinued the baja blast

during junior high, sosuke and tsubasa were twenty one pilots fans

kotomi dresses like she came straight out of the 2000s. full on pink/black/white mcbling flip phone juicy couture jean skirt stuff. class of 09' type fit honestly

once asukasei got bored and read the entirety of the great gatsby for no reason at all. he hated it

karen either paints her nails a new dark colour every week or goes months without doing anything with them

daiki owns a hamster and a rabbit and cares extremely deeply for them. they are SPOILEDDDD

shoji makes wired jewelry and is probably really into nu-punk too. sometimes tomohiko gives him scrap metal to work with

tsubasa once believed an AI generated image of a mermaid was real and has NEVER been able to live it down ever since

taro believes vampires and ghosts exist. ryota swears he saw a ufo and aliens once

some sad shit below muwhwuahuwh

unrelated somewhat but taro and tsubasa remind me of the song Caesia & Ruben

kiriko and karen had the same motive for opposite reasons. karen had a good relationship with her mother and was distraught to see her dead, but kiriko had an awful relationship with her mother and couldnt stand knowing she was still alive

the brain is active for several minutes even after death.

i really wish we got more info about these guys before they kinda died

[xogiada]

giada d'amiano.

(JORDANA BREWSTER, CIS FEMALE, SHE/HER) Oh, is that GIADA D’AMIANO I heard the FORTY- ONE year old is INTUITIVE. But don’t let that pretty face fool you, they are also MANIPULATIVE. Makes sense seeing how they are COUNCIL in THE SERPENTS gang. penned by ally

basics.

full name: giada rosalia d’amiano nickname(s): g, gia, ms. d’amiano face claim: jordana brewster age: 41 birthdate: may 4th star sign: taurus gender: cis woman pronouns: she/her sexuality: bisexual gang: the serpents, council  cover: boutique owner birthplace: milan, italy  current residence; new york, new york languages: english & italian theme song: gloria - laura  branigan

reflection.

face claim: jordana brewster. hair color: dark brown eye color: espresso brown height: 5’7 build: tall & slender, and loves her risotto alla milanese tattoos: tramp stamp from her rebellious teen years. small butterfly because her favorite aunt used to call her "piccolina farfalla" little butterfly in italian. scars: burn mark on her leg from boiling pasta

family.

mother: antonia d'amiano father: massimo d'amiano siblings: francesca d'amiano (35) tba d'amiano, tba d'amiano pets: tba

personality.

characteristics:  intuitive, clever, quick witted, savvy, manipulative, reticent, opportunistic, passionate, loyal, dramatic, particular, innovative, honest  fears:  small spaces and off the rack couture  hogwarts house: ravenclaw passions/hobbies: designing clothes specifically lingerie for her boutique, cooking her family’s secret recipes, entertaining, shopping, watching old hollywood films especially ones starring sophia loren, playing cards and smoking cigars, supporting ac milan football club, fashion week  drugs/ alcohol/ smoking: not opposed/ in moderation / cigarettes and cigars socially   colors: classic black and white, pops of red and jewel tones. aesthetics: cigar smoke and lipstick stains, having an ace up her sleeve, homemade vino, power suits, imported issues of vogue italia, stilettos tapping impatiently, family style dinners, fur lined dressing gowns, upping the ante, sketches and 100s scattered over marble countertops, sips of espresso, focaccia to finish off the last bits of sauce, 3AM strokes of genius, a spritz of dolce & gabana, mascara stained satin pillowcases, fashion week in milan.

biography.

Giada was just a child when her father uprooted his family from Milan, Italy to New York City to join her grandfather in the Serpents gang he would eventually become a council member of. Growing up, she was the principessa, and apple of her mafiosa father’s eye. Though she was surrounded by the family business, daddy’s little girl was always thought to be just that and young Giada was kept as in the dark as much as possible when it came to his dirty work, deemed by her father a man’s business.  It was a challenge that made his endeavors all the more intriguing to her. While her mother urged her to help her with Sunday dinner, Giada found herself sneaking off to play cards and smoke cigars with the neighborhood kids. She was sharp, intuitive, and business savvy taking after her father more than mother. Quickly, she learned the ways of the streets, and the higherary of the families. Eager to prove herself, Giada used her cleverness to hustle kids and make a pretty penny. Her efforts only disappointed her parents, and the more Giada was kept away the more she began to rebel, even falling for a boy from a rival family.  Naturally, it couldn’t work and by the time Giada was 17, she was shipped back to the motherland in hopes of straightening her out and keeping her away from the family business. She lived with her Zia Teresa outside of Milan learning the ways of the old country. Her zia taught her all the secrets behind the family recipes, how to sew, tend a garden, and above all else that the most important thing in this life is family.   After living in Italy for five years, Giada returned from the fashion capital not only with renewed sense of clarity, but with a degree in fashion merchandising. She and her siblings became incredibly close afterwards, and she is the first one to invite everyone over for Sunday dinner and a round of scopa. She found love and met a person who would later become her ex-fiance. In return, her father gifted her Moda Bella, not only as a reward for a job well done but also as another distraction in hopes she would be too busy with the boutique to concern herself with business dealings.  And for a while that’s exactly what Giada did; she kept her cards close and played the long game. For while there is a queen in the deck, one must be careful how they play it.  When the D’Amiano patriarch passed, she couldn’t help but jump at the chance to become a part of the serpents in her father's honor. She started off small, offering up her boutique as a stronghold in addition to 30 percent of the earnings and eventually working her way up the ranks, even becoming a leader for a few short years.  Now at 41, Giada has gambled away her chance at love and a family of her own to be dealt in at The Serpents table. She earned a spot as a council member with a hunger to keep the momentum going. She is willing to do just about anything to prove that she too can play with the big boys.

PINTEREST I SPOTIFY | WANTED CONNECTIONS

[dippedanddripped]

CELEBRATING 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIP HOP, THE MUSEUM AT FIT PRESENTS FRESH, FLY, AND FABULOUS: FIFTY YEARS OF HIP HOP STYLE

The Museum at FIT (MFIT) presents Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop. The largest and most comprehensive exhibition to explore this revolutionary and influential style, this also marks the first time that the museum examines fashion exclusively through one musical genre. Over 100 garments and accessories capture the pivotal moments in hip hop fashion’s evolution, ranging from Kangol hats to custom Dapper Dan jackets and the Manolo Blahnik Okla Alta booties inspired by Timberland work boots. The exhibition is curated by Elena Romero, journalist and assistant chair of Marketing Communications at FIT, and Elizabeth Way, associate curator of costume at MFIT. Romero is the author of “Freestylin’: How Hip Hop Changed the Fashion Industry (2012).”

“It was important for The Museum at FIT to organize this exhibition, because hip hop—the most influential music genre of our era—has had such a profound impact on the world of fashion,” notes Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator, MFIT. “Furthermore, hip hop fashion and music are cultural expressions of the African and Hispanic cultural diasporas, which MFIT seeks to amplify as part of our goal to expand the understanding of fashion.”

Visitors will see looks worn and made popular by artists Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, LL Cool J, Chuck D, Missy Elliot, Aaliyah, Khaled, and Cardi B, to name just a few. Fresh, Fly and Fabulous will also feature designs by 5001 Flavors, April Walker, Misa Hylton, Cross Colours, Karl Kani, Shirt King Phade of the Shirt Kings, FUBU, Rocawear, Wu Wear, Mecca USA, Baby Phat, Pelle Pelle, and Sean John, as well as Lee, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Versace, among many others.

A digital guide for Fresh, Fly and Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style can be found at Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and cultural app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Bloomberg Connects app, available for download from Google Play or the App Store, makes The Museum at FIT accessible for either onsite or offsite visits through photo, audio, and video features offering insights into the world of fashion and design. The digital guide goes behind the scenes of the museum with exclusive multimedia content about designers, exhibitions, programs, and conservation. Visitors can plan their visit, access helpful insights on site, and dive deeper into favorite works at home—anytime, anywhere. Guide highlights include interviews with hip hop experts, designer spotlights, and details about works from our collection, with new content added regularly.  

The exhibition is accompanied by a book, Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style, published by Rizzoli with a foreword written by Slick Rick, and a symposium on February 24 that will be free and open to the public.  

Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style has been made possible thanks to the generosity of the Couture Council of The Museum at FIT and The Coby Foundation. Special thanks to Barrett Barrera Projects.The museum is open Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from noon to 8 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission is free. All visitors are requested to review the latest safety guidelines and protocols. For more information and the latest MFIT updates, visit fitnyc.edu/museum; register for the MFIT newsletter; and follow the museum on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

[bloodied-serpent]

For the character of your choice, 2, 9, and 14? :3

I haven't talked about Bahram in a while. Toreador time! 2. Favourite canon thing about this character? One time he took a selfie with the grandfather of some teenager that followed him on Instagram, who he encountered outside an active crime scene (the apartment of a kindred who'd been murdered) while dressed in full combat gear and carrying a sword. #Slay

Honorary mention of that time he sat on the Giovanni Primogen's lap while the Prince and the Council discussed how to take down a powerful Lasombra. He likes attention, what can I say.

9. Could you be roommates with this character? Absolutely, he's a delight. We could share outfits and have gay little house parties.

14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

Haute couture, of course. He's a fashion model, in Paris, and his sire is a designer. I'd be a criminal to deprive him of his hand-embroidered silk bodysuits.

Thank you for indulging me!

[scotianostra]

On February 26th 1672  the Border woollen industry was  established when  Philip van der Straten of Bruges set up the first mill dressing and refining wool at Kelso

Van den Straten came over to Scotland to set up the business, but first had to wait for the correct paperwork to be completed, by the powers that be, when it did it read;

‘Anent a petition presented by Philippus van der Straten… intending to reseid in this country and imploy a considerable stock of money in dressing and refining of wooll, in order to which he hath already sett up a work and imployed diverse workmen who are now refining and dressing of Scottes wooll at Kelso… being born in Bruges in Flanders.’                         Register of the Privy Council.

This certainly wasn’t the first time a Flemish man came over to ply his trade here, the first influx was said to have happened in the 11th century,.The Flemings were so expert in making woollen cloth, that it was said of them that their skill in the art of weaving was a peculiar gift conferred by nature. Large numbers of weavers came over from Flanders.

In the reign of Alexander III. considerable quantities of wool were exported to the Continent in exchange for linen, silks, and broadcloth; but there is no mention in the records of those times, so far as I can see, but a lot of our mediaeval records were lost when Edward I plundered the country and took everything that  defined our nationality south in an attempt to turn us into his fiefdom.

 About the year 1600 seven Flemings were brought to Edinburgh to instruct the people how to make "seys" and broadcloth at home, so as to be independent of a supply from England. There were many difficulties in the way, however, and no record remains to show that anything came of the scheme. When "the Hospital of our Lady," which had been founded in Leith Wynd, Edinburgh, by Bishop Spens of Aberdeen in 1479, passed into the hands of the Town Council in 1619, it was converted into a work-house, and named Paul's Work.

The woollen industry really took off in 1771 with the introduction of stocking frames by a canny merchant, Bailie John Hardie. The Pringle brand began life in 1815, with Barrie, Innes Henderson, Lyle & Scott, Peter Scott and many others following.

Over time, stockings evolved into ‘combination’ garments, and eventually knitted underwear made the leap into outerwear, in the form of pullovers, cardigans and the classic British style icon, the ‘twinset’, invented by Pringle’s.

The woollen industry saw a downturn in the late 20th century due to overseas competition, but is thriving once again, with renewed emphasis on design, superb quality, cutting-edge technology and exquisite hand finishing.

Hawick has a long association with the world’s most famous designers, from Dior, Bernat Klein and Chanel to Vivienne Westwood and Clements Ribiero.

Today, couturiers and designers from Italy, France, London’s Savile Row and Highland estates are still regular visitors to Hawick’s mills. And the Hawick-couture partnership is a secret no more!

[costumedump]

The Girl Who Lived In The Tree Collection

Fall/Winter 2008-2009, Commissioned 2010

Designed By Alexander McQueen

London, England

Acquiring Beauty: FIDM Museum Fashion Council, Est. 2011

FIDM Museum And Galleries

[shopdew]

Rohit Bal (1961-2024): A pioneer of Indian fashion    

For those who embarked on their fashion careers in the 1990s, a time when Indian fashion was still carving out its place on the world stage, Rohit Bal was an inspiration and a guiding force. His influence was so profound that, following the Fashion Design Council of India’s (FDCI) announcement of his passing on November 1, 2024, almost everyone in the industry—designers, stylists, photographers, models, and fashion writers—came forward to share cherished memories of working with him. Bal, affectionately known as "Gudda," was one of the most respected and beloved designers in Indian fashion.

Read about Rohit Bal – The Indian Fashion Pioneer

Born in Srinagar in 1961, Bal began his career in 1986, after graduating from Delhi University with a degree in history and further honing his craft at the National Institute of Fashion Technology. He blazed a trail on the runway, seamlessly blending India’s traditional craftsmanship with bold, modern aesthetics. Known for his lavish shows and dramatic style, Bal’s creations featured luxurious fabrics like velvet and brocade, often adorned with his signature motifs of flowers and peacocks, which helped to redefine Indian couture on a global scale.

Bal was among the first Indian designers to make a mark internationally, dressing Hollywood icons such as Cindy Crawford, Uma Thurman, Pamela Anderson, and Naomi Campbell. His vision and artistry not only transformed the Indian fashion industry but also cemented his legacy as a pioneer and an icon, celebrated for elevating Indian couture to new heights.

[qnewsau]

Meet the queens of 'Canada's Drag Race' season 5

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Meet the queens of 'Canada's Drag Race' season 5

The Queen of the North herself, Brooke Lynn Hytes, is back for another lap of Canada’s Drag Race alongside mainstay judges Brad Goreski and Traci Melchor.

Before the season premiere of Canada’s Drag Race on November 21, meet the queens who will be vying for the crown.

Helena Poison

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Helena Poison is a designer who spends her weeks performing drag in Toronto, and her weekends taking out-of-town gigs. She is a skilled makeup artist who knows her way around prosthetics and special FX makeup. Her drag career started when she grew tired of doing makeup for others, and her friends pushed her to step onto the stage.

Jaylene Tyme

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Jaylene Tyme has been a drag performer based in Vancouver for more than 30 years. Her show, Legends Cabaret, celebrates the art of drag and world class celebrity impersonations where she transforms into a variety of iconic divas including Dolly Parton, Cher, Marilyn Monroe, and Barbra Streisand. Jaylene’s legendary status has garnered her the title of Empress 35 of Vancouver and Chairperson of the International Court council.

Makayla Couture

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Makayla Couture attended a musical theater high school, where she first discovered her passion for performance. She had an appearance in season 2 of Canada’s Drag Race where she took part in the makeover challenge and met her drag mother, Icesis Couture. She proudly represents both the trans and Black communities with confidence and strength.

Minhi Wang

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Minhi Wang is a busy queen who works a full-time government job, is a part-time physiotherapist, and volunteers at a long-term care home by performing drag. She was a founding Pit Crew member in season 1 of Canada’s Drag Race, and is an active water polo player and a member of the queer water polo team, The Toronto Triggerfish.

Perla

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Perla has a unique editorial perspective on fashion and has worked in the industry for 10 years. She prides herself on having an arsenal of skills including singing, acting, and doing versatile makeup. However, she is best known in the drag scene for her wig styling and famous hair whips. She is the winner of the Absolut Empire’s Ball 2022, an annual event founded by Scarlett BoBo, which celebrates the dazzling artistry and creativity of drag.

Sanjina DaBish Queen

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Sanjina DaBish Queen calls herself the trans, Fijian, Bolly-hood queen of Toronto. Her signature drag style features a powerhouse of dance performances that incorporate her Fijian background and magical energy. She is a lead instructor in the Drag Masterclass run by the City of Toronto.

Tara Nova

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In just a few years, Tara Nova has climbed her way to the top of the Newfoundland & Labrador drag scene and has become one of the most booked queens in the capital. She is a self-taught seamstress who was recently awarded a grant from Arts NL to continue designing and creating. She wants to carry the mantle for the East Coast and show the world just how resourceful Atlantic Queens are.

The Virgo Queen

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The Virgo Queen has been dancing and singing her whole life. Before beginning her career in drag, she was a finalist on the Canadian reality series The Next Star and had her taste of fame at the young age of 14. She embraces her full heritage as someone who is biracial and half-Indigenous, using it as inspiration to craft her unique voice as a drag artist.

Tiffany Ann Co.

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Tiffany Ann Co. is a proud first generation Vietnamese immigrant, and she is excited to represent her community on screen. She has a background in competitive hip hop, and with a little wind machine, head mic, and a rhinestone or two, Tiffany can make every performance feel like the Super Bowl half-time show.

Uma Gahd

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One of the top queens in her city, Uma Gahd is in high demand, hosting and performing 15-30 shows every month. Uma Gahd is enthralled by old school drag and can effortlessly put together silly and conceptual performances that touch on gender and politics. She sold out her one woman drag comedy play, Are You There, Margaret? It’s Me, Gahd, three nights in a row at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Xana

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Xana is the “Drag Mogul & CEO of Vancouver.” She is fiercely protective of her community and passionate about creating a safe, diverse scene — including advocating for better pay, inclusive spaces, and reclaiming her Indigenous roots. She has raised thousands of dollars for Canadian charities which go to performer funds for disenfranchised communities and trans health care. When asked why she devotes so much time to these causes, Xana says, “If not me, then who?”

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[firadessa]

No cause your so right on how it's one of Disney's best franchises but it doesn't get the recognision it deserves and I'm still made about it

Here's some things I don't like on how Disney treated the series

1. Removal of classic Flash games in 2013 from the Disney website like Lightball challenge, Tink's Fairy Tag, and Dragonfly Race leaving them lost/nearly impossible to find, or in a seemingly broken and unplayble state. Additionally, printouts and other downloadables that could have stayed were often removed after website updates. I hate when normal features of a website get removed, and Disney Fairies had this the most as someone who spent a lot of their time on the disney website as a kid

2. Having the audacity to make an html5 game called Pixie Party Couture with pixie hollow assets, like a year after the game shut down. Like literally Tabby of the Never Council was in the dress up game

3. It's mostly mismanagement, but cancelling the original draft for Tinker Bell and not updating the marketing material, even when it had been pushed back by a year. Especially on the 2007 website for the first year it was out.

5. Not crediting people enough? like for the original TB draft and the books authors being "Disney Storybook Art Team" even in the book, leading people to dig to find who worked on their damn books

6. Failing to capture an audience for Pixie Hollow, yet Toontown which had been somewhat slow on content iirc yet Pixie Hollow still never had a problem with new and original concepts, as well as fun events. Again, mismanagment, but it sometimes makes me sad knowing Pixie Hollow, while it was popular, had a signifigantly smaller audience then the others. And honestly, I don't think it's the fault of Pixie Hollow, but poor marketing. Which puts the stress on the employees for working on an "unpopular" game, which clearly had people playing it and a good retention of players. It was cancelled like 5/6 years in, when it could have at least lasted another few years because it was 2013.

7. Keeping Pixie Hollow's "beta" on internationally, and showcasing that they could have still kept the smaller more relaxed experience of creating a fairy and creating a page for the character. But since they wanted to transition to mobile apps in the US, most people who grew up with the site did not know of the international versions. Which closed around 2016/2017. Meaning if you were a hardcore Pixie Hollow fan or lived outside of the US, you got 3 more years of PH- just a more toned down version

8. Pages were found on the Disney website that misleading people that the game was going to come back, but they were just leaks/archived pages from the original website. These pages were easy for others to find, one person even found a login page confirming Disney still had the account data for Pixie Hollow.

9. Removing the book characters from the franchise almost entirely except as side characters or very specific instances like in Pixie Hollow. Even if those characters could still be recognizable or interesting, they never started pushing them as actual characters within the movie's shared universe until like 2014. The characters had 3 years to exist and existed for longer than that because they waited for the release of Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg to even debut the franchise.

10. Shortening down a full length movie Race through the Seasons, into Pixie Hollow games leaving the director to scramble into making it a 30 minute TV special, when that wasn't the assignment.

11. People made more ideas for Disney Fairies projects. And they just sat there and waited until they wanted to shut the studio (Disneytoon) down, barely producing anything!

12. Prioritzing another franchise so much that when people ordered a Disney Fairies magazine they sent out the other one when they pulled it instead of cancelling the orders. When there was a Youtube channel, it got replaced and the videos were unlisted with uh *this more popular*! franchise 👸😮‍💨 Only lead to confusion in both cases I assure you

13. Playing hot and cold with us because people didn't know they didn't cancel the entire thing, or if it was offically completely done. Which is understandable because of the whole Youtube rebrand as Disney Princess, and also poor marketing and releasing in the US

14. The first book was the first to release internationally, yet a lot of international translation ceased completely around the mid 2010s

15. They made another Iridessa book. And they only released in Japan and Australia. Written by a prominent Black author. Extremely rare. Leading to someone in 2017 having to scan it for people to read it. Iridessa and the Secret of the Never Mine

16. Not including Joel Mcneely's songs on the inspired by Tinker Bell soundtracks. Which again, mislead people because they are not the actual soundtracks

17. This is more on the Pixie Hollow team, but the lack of support from the closure is not something I liked. Like I get it if they weren't properly able to add a proper farewell celebration like Club Penguin's in 2017, but naming the closing event Pixie Hollow Farewell wasn't a good move. Like did they forget that's a fictional place that many kids are attached to and a game? Wish it was the "Fly with You Forever" party or something more creative. The closing announcement felt very out of character and was assigned one of the NPCs, which I remember recieving mixed announcements. Leading them to make a new post that came across as more sympathetic, and add free membership for the remaining period. But there was a lack of attention when it came to the games closure, probably due to the fact it was rushed and 4 games were planned to close on one day. And we deserved a proper goodbye and tribute to the characters of Pixie Hollow like the council and others, making the ending more bittersweet instead of just bitter. Oh, but they'd actually have to code that in the fairy game so they didn't bother.

You know what maybe I’m just tired and feeling the existential dread of growing up, but actually my small, petty hill to die on is that I don’t think I will ever forgive Disney for abandoning the fairies franchise. I cannot even properly express what those movies were to me as a kid. They very well may have been my first hyperfixation. But come on beyond the sentimental value, those movies:

Encouraged kids to take an interest in nature and be nice to plants and animals.

Depicted a (mostly female) friend group that spent virtually every scene they had together onscreen building each other up and supporting each other.

Featured a female lead who is essentially a mechanical engineer, and is not treated as any less magical or important for it than her friends who can magically make flowers grow or bend light (except for the first movie wherein her feeling less magical and important is the central conflict).

Gave said female lead a “love interest,” I say in quotations because while they are definitely implied to have romantic feelings for each other, he is never called anything other than her best friend and the two of them ending up together is never treated as an urgent priority. Their friendship is incredibly important to both of them, but no one acts like it’s a problem that they’re just friends for now.

Redeemed the mean girl pretty damn successfully (in my opinion), Vidia never apologizes for most of her actions onscreen, but she does realize when she’s gone too far and makes an effort to fix her mistakes, and from that point on she is integrated into the friend group who, as I mentioned before, spend 90% of their screen time uplifting each other.

In The Lost Treasure, let Tink’s temper have consequences, a good lesson for kids in not taking their friends for granted and treating them kindly, but also teaching respect for boundaries and personal space through Terrence’s end.

In Secret of the Wings, demonstrated that sometimes rules are there for safety reasons, but you can try to think of a creative solution to do what you want while still keeping things safe for everyone.

In Legend of the Neverbeast (admittedly not the greatest movie in the series), depicted the fairies having to say goodbye to an animal companion permanently, something most kids will probably experience at some point.

Inspired a banger of an online game and several banger songs.

And what has Disney done with this franchise they spent 7 years on (longer if you count the books)?

Allowed a massive decline in quality on the last movie made (Legend of the Neverbeast) and then acted shocked when it didn’t do as well as the previous ones.

Cancelled all fairy projects after that.

Shut down the game in 2013.

Made a bunch of the songs from the soundtracks seemingly disappear off the face of the earth.

I know it doesn’t make the top 100 shitty things Disney has done, probably not even the top 1000, but I am still extremely salty about it, even though it’s been almost 10 years.

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Falguni Shane Peacock, also known by initials FSP, is an Indian fashion house established by the designer duo Falguni Peacock and Shane Peacock in 2004.The brand focuses on couture, wedding wear, and occasion wear and is based in Mumbai, India. In 2022, Falguni Shane Peacock was awarded the hall of fame award by the Fashion Design Council of India.