Tim Bur­ton’s film adap­ta­tion of Alice In Won­der­land isn’t out until next year, but if the promo pho­tos are any indi­ca­tion, it’s going to be the most visu­ally arrest­ing, lux­u­ri­ous Alice yet. Here’s a look at how new Alice stacks up against older Alices from a fash­ion perspective.

1. Alice

The new Alice is played by 19 year old Mia Wasikowska. From the looks of her outfit–a slightly-longer than tea-length gown, white booties, fin­ger­less gloves–in this photo, the film will be return­ing to Alice In Won­der­land’s Vic­to­rian roots. Her dress resem­bles car­toon Dis­ney Alice’s frock, but owes more in feel and atti­tude to Arthur Rackham’s haunt­ing, Earthy vision of Alice. Also, I just noticed this, but look how chubby car­toon Alice’s calves are com­pared to her arms.

Also glad that Wasikowska-Alice isn’t a super-blonde blonde.
2. The Mad Hat­ter

Johnny Depp was all but born to play this role. Or rather, it’s a role he’s been play­ing for film after film after film now. Looks like he’s a red­head in Tim Bur­ton’s flick. He’s also way more psy­che­delic and fright­en­ing than either Sir John Ten­niel’s imag­in­ing of the Mad Hat­ter or Disney’s portly, neb­bishy Mad Hat­ter (who by com­par­i­son looks like he is on his way to a con­gres­sional hear­ing instead of a tea party). The pink sash around the hat and pink shirt peep­ing out from behind the wacky cra­vat are a nice touch. Why does pink on guys always con­note crazy? I expect we’ll be see­ing a lot of this on Hal­loween and at cos­play conventions.

3. Twee­dledee & Twee­dle­dum

Maybe it’s the black and white prison stripe shirts, but Bur­ton must have been chan­nel­ing the Addams Fam­ily when he did his ver­sion of Dee and Dum. Matt Lucas plays both of them. They look men­ac­ing and slightly Mon­goloid in this illustration–you wouldn’t want to be run­ning into this pair on the play­ground any­time soon. Disney’s car­toon twins in their bright, pri­mary color jumpers look like effete clowns by com­par­i­son. Tenniel’s twins look like thugs.
4. The Red Queen

Lov­ing the heart-shaped geisha style lip­stick on Helena Bon­ham Carter’s pasty white face. The candy apple red hair–also a nice touch. The crisp white col­lar wing­ing up from the bodice of her blue vel­vet gown is a nifty homage to car­toon Dis­ney Red Queen. I like that she’s not decked out in head-to-toe red and that her gown isn’t a giant heart card. And that she’s not man­nish and butch like both car­toon Dis­ney and Tenniel’s Red Queen. Women in power–especially the vio­lent, vicious ones–are sexy these days.
5. The White Queen

There was no White Queen in Disney’s ani­mated ver­sion of Alice In Won­der­land. The White Queen is a char­ac­ter who appeared in Lewis Carroll’s sequel Though the Look­ing–Glass. Anne Hath­away plays her in Burton’s film. She looks amaz­ing and sort of like what every girl wishes she looked like at prom, or at her wed­ding. And wow, that blood red lip­stick against all the white! Will her gown have those puffy white Miche­lin Man rings around the skirt? One can only hope.

6. Won­der­land

The con­cept art for the world of Won­der­land is just spec­tac­u­lar. It owes a lot to Mark Ryden. It’s his jewel-toned, cool pas­tel, chiaroscuro color palette to a tee. Inno­cent with a hint of dark­ness, and a soup­con of psycho.

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