Electric Holiday

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Minnie Mouse Turns Supermodel in Barneys' Electric Holiday

After months of teasing us with sketches and screenshots, Barneys has finally released its animated short film Electric Holiday.



After months of teasing us with sketches and screenshots, Barneys has finally released its animated short film Electric Holiday. And as promised, the five-minute clip features just as many industry luminaries as beloved Disney characters.

The film sees Minnie Mouse daydreaming over a Lanvin dress in a store window. Her imagination takes her to Paris where, after a day of getting her picture taken by people like Steven Klein and Mario Sorrenti, she gets to wear the dress in a high profile fashion show. Franca Sozzani, Sarah Jessica Parker, Glenda Bailey, and Cathy Horyn sit and watch her from the front row, where she's joined by Cruella de Vil (in Rick Owens) and Daphne Duck (in Dolce & Gabbana).

Electric Holiday is the centerpiece of the Barneys Holiday 2012 retail project of the same name. The products are online and in stores now, and the film can be seen below.

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Fashion's Biggest Names Get Animated For Barneys' Electric Holiday

Barneys won't debut anything from its holiday retail project until Wednesday, but stills from the coordinating film reveal a host of fashion people turned into cartoon characters.
Fashion Cartoons From Barneys & Disney Electric Holiday

Barneys won't debut anything from its holiday retail project until Wednesday, but stills from the coordinating film reveal a host of fashion people turned into cartoon characters.

In addition to the list of boldface names already included in Electric Holiday, the Disney animated film will feature animated versions of Linda Evangelista, Cathy Horyn, Daphne Guinness, Naomi Campbell, Franca Sozzani, Anna Dello Russo (at left), and Nicolas Ghesquière, among others. All of them participate in some way in Minnie Mouse's ultimate daydream: to walk down the runway during Paris Fashion Week.

The short film follows Minnie Mouse doing just that. After falling in love with a Lanvin dress she sees in a store window, Minnie Mouse slips into a reverie about wearing the dress in the City of Light. During her daydream, she stops to pose for Juergen Teller and Mario Sorrenti and rubs elbows with Carine Roitfeld.

A sneak peek at the film below, and a look at stills of all the fashion people here in the gallery.

Photos courtesy of Barneys.

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Here's What Suzy Menkes and Alber Elbaz Look Like as Cartoons

We've already seen the iconic Disney characters Barneys has dressed up like fashion people for its Electric Holiday retail concept, but what about the equally iconic fashion people involved in the production?
Designer Cartoons For Barneys Electric Holiday | Pictures

We've already seen the iconic Disney characters Barneys has dressed up like fashion people for its Electric Holiday retail concept, but what about the equally iconic fashion people involved in the production?

On Thursday, Barneys released a line drawing of Alber Elbaz, BryanBoy, Suzy Menkes, Steven Meisel, and Carine Roitfeld sitting in the front row at a fashion show. The animated runway spectacle will be the climax of a short film Disney has created for the collaboration, in which Minnie Mouse, Goofy, and Daphne Duck among other characters will walk down a catwalk in Paris. "Rumor has it Franca Sozzani, Emmanuelle Alt, Sarah Jessica Parker, Glenda Bailey will be sitting together front row as well," a Barneys representative said in an email.

Electric Holiday will debut at Barneys' Madison Ave. flagship store in New York City on Nov. 14. Until then, a look at the cartoon renderings of some of the most influential people in fashion here in the gallery.