A question that I should have asked myself when I shamelessly went celeb pic hunting after the Met Costume Institute Gala (ONE celeb outfit event a year is not too indulgent me thinks...) and found nothing too awe-inspiring despite the unbounded theme [1] people were given to play with, is what would I have worn?  A reader asked it instead [2].

Given that it is a Friday and I am being whisked out of London to the coast for the weekend, I feel it's ok to dream a little, think and fantasise.  A cliched interpretation of a comic superhero would never do, even the most cultish superheroes and that said, I'm not remotely comic-savvy.  So I guess it's down to the rickety old imagination then.  She is a combination of a dreamcaster, Grecian muse, celestial being and water nymph with powers that are subtly worked but strongly felt.  The soft hued, rose-tinted way in which Patricia Kitten Braden from Breakfast on Pluto [3] saw things and the way Clarence H White [4] photographed his surroundings is how this 'superbeing' sees things.

It takes a combination that can't be exactified and methodically put together....a composite of....Jan Minitau's [5] SS07 ruffled creations that envelope the body, Jan Minitau's super platform shoes that need to be striped in soft pastels, Natasha Lawes' jewelled half masks [6] (she also made the butterfly mask which adorned my face for the Fashion156 shoot...) with white dust covering the other side of the face, a clash between Karin Schoenberger [7]'s lace circular backpieces and Peter Bertsch's [8] moulded shaped plastic wings and delicate Bebaroque 'Mrs Feather' stockings [9]...

Oh, and Goldfrapp's Utopia in mind when donning all of the above...

Now I'm going to be away with the fairies and return on Sunday hopefully all in one piece...