ALICE AU PAYS DES VICES

By PAP Magazine Editorial

The editorial opens on a close frame where gothic blackletter script—'Alice Au Pays Des Vices'—arcs across collarbones and throat, each serif rendered in crisp black ink against porcelain skin. Cascading crystal-chain earrings catch the light beside a cobalt-blue off-shoulder garment, while the model's crimped rose-blonde hair and deep terracotta lip anchor a palette of contrast and control. The second image expands into full theatrical mise-en-scène: oversized sculptural playing-card suits—a scarlet heart, an ebony spade, geometric club and diamond—rise from a grey studio floor strewn with real playing cards. At centre, the lead figure reclines in a white button-down shirt layered over black strappy lingerie, one leg bent, the composition framed by attendants in Elizabethan ruff collars, topless silhouettes and crimson or black masks obscuring faces. Above, a cloud-printed ceiling disc hovers like a surreal proscenium, while the triadic scheme of white, red and black holds every element in taut visual tension. This is Alice refracted through casino iconography and fetish codes, innocence inverted into a staged rite of vice.