Again inspired by the concept of the ‘Snow Bite’ doll from the Monster High collection, the idea of Snow White’s pale skin being due to her being a blood sucker brought about this design. The image of her sitting in a coffin, surrounded by seven graves (her recent victims) made an amusing twist on the story.
In every interpretation I’ve noticed Snow White is dressed in yellow, and I approached that as her primary color. The basis was a simple peasant like dress with a black bodice and a-line skirt of purple, with an off the shoulder blouse. Then to give it that ‘vamp’ look, I added the under layer of black lace that covered her shoulders to a choker, and gave her arms a regal darkness. I loved the contrast of the black lace with the canary yellow of the top, the perfect meeting of the sweetness associated with Snow White topped with that dark twist. Blanca made the perfect model, with her ruby red lips and wavey raven hair.
The coffin was easy to construct, cutting up pieces of foam board decorated with images of wood work and lining the box with lilac satin (the traditional crimson red seemed so typical). I then printed and pasted onto cardboard seven blank tombstones for the seven graves. Originally I put the names of the Dwarves onto the graves, but somehow seeing Dopey’s name on a tombstone was a little too depressing, so I backed off, feeling the seven graves made the point fairly clear.
Though the outfit was great, I wasn’t as happy with the shoot. The box never seemed to be right, and I couldn’t get the right angles as I envisioned them of Snow Fright lounging so elegantly in her coffin.
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