“Disney has always known they’ve had the market on princesses,” adds Cleghorn. “It was the perfect marriage. How do we blend that Disney magic and make it something modern? This was the way to do it.”
It’s difficult to say what’s more brilliant — the fact that Disney is about to become a luxury label, or the fact that all the standard princess rules have been thrown out. You don’t have to be a blue blood or possess an infinite knowledge of a Disney heroine’s back-story to act the part. You just have to like what you see.
Sharon Steel’s favorite princess story is Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess, who never married. She can be reached atssteel@phx.com.
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