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Charmed Adventure Necklace and Tea Party Bracelet by Tom Binns for Walt Disney Signature…

This timeless story of Lewis Caroll married with the wonderful world of Disney and Tim Burton’s interpretation offers so much philosophical fantasy and peculiar surreal imagination,” Binns said of the collaboration. “It opens up a labyrinth of doors for my particular way of seeing the world, allowing me to express my fashion experience with my interest in art and cinema. Alice is the perfect story to release that creativity, and I cannot imagine a better story to cultivate my relationship with Disney.” (via)

I snagged this photo while I was at an event for Tim Burton’s retrospective at MoMA earlier this week. The entire exhibit is pretty wild. I don’t want to spoil any of the surprises, but it’s definitely worth a visit - costumes, props, napkin sketches, paintings, etc. There are also a few short films being played in the entrance hallway (just after the mouth above). There’s so much to see (more than 700 pieces in total) that I can’t wait to go back and swoon over everything when I don’t have to worry about juggling a cocktail and a camera at the same time.

This behind the scenes video is also worth watching. (via) Discussed: drawing, themes in his work, favorite movies and why he wears striped socks.

Blue Girl with Wine by Tim Burton…

Though one may imagine that Tim Burton’s idea of a celebration is sitting alone in a darkened room thinking about tragedies that befell him as a child, the morbid filmmaker will be honored in a more traditional manner by [MoMA]. The Modern said it would hold a retrospective on the career of Mr. Burton, right, director of “Beetlejuice,” “Edward Scissorhands” and the producer of “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” The exhibition will contain more than 700 drawings, paintings, puppets, costumes and other artifacts from Mr. Burton’s film career, as well as displays of his early nonprofessional and student films, artwork from his Web animation series “The World of Stainboy,” book projects like “Tim Burton’s Tragic Toys for Girls and Boys” and severed-head props from “Mars Attacks!” A film series is planned to accompany the exhibition. (via)

Tim Burton’s Magical Fashion editorial shot by Tim Walker…

In anticipation of his retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, filmmaker Tim Burton reimagines the season’s dark delights.

I’m really looking forward to this exhibit at MoMA.

Photograph of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter by Mary Ellen Mark for Vanity Fair… Find the full article about Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland here.

This will surely only combine my obsessions: Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland:

The first 3-D flick that Burton will direct for Disney is a live-action/motion capture remake of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s tale, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The book, filled with hookah-huffing caterpillars, porpoise puns, lobster quadrilles and croquet-obsessed queens, is a natural fit for Burton’s “gothic carnival” imagery.

The best-known of those failed versions is, of course, Walt Disney’s 1951’s animated film. Long considered one of the lesser films in Walt Disney’s animated canon, Alice in Wonderland received a hostile reaction from British critics and disappointing box office on its initial release. It was the only Silver Age animated film to never be re-released theatrically during Walt’s lifetime.

“(Alice in Wonderland) suffered from too many cooks - directors,” legendary Disney animator Ward Kimball told Leonard Maltin. “Here was a case of five directors each trying to top the other guy and make his sequence the biggest and craziest in the show. This had a self-canceling effect on the final product.”

In the late 1960’s, Alice in Wonderland became extremely popular (much to Disney’s dismay) as a “head flick:” a movie that university students would watch while under the influence of recreational pharmaceuticals. The original story, filled with Carroll’s lysergic imagery, has a long history of appealing to the drug culture.

“The stories are like drugs for children, you know?” Burton says. “It’s like, ‘Whoa, man.’ The imagery, they’ve never quite nailed making it compelling as a full story. So I think it’s an interesting challenge to direct.”

For Christmas I would really like a mecca with my favorite crazies (Tim Burton and Johnny Depp) to the nearest toy store …