Headdress Affair: Fashion in Flowerlandia

Ever imagine seeing lovely girls wearing the most beautiful gowns, adorned by colorful and lovely flowers all in bloom? No, this is not a trip to fairy land, but to Flowerlandia. In its seventh year, the Village Care of New York's annual "Tulips and Pansies: The Headdress Affair" brings all fashionistas and beauty lovers to a world where fashion and floral collides.

Held on May 15, New York's top florists joined forces with the city's most creative fashion designers to create the loveliest floral headdresses that were presented in a fashion show that aimed to raise funds to support Village Care's medical and other support programs for the 1500 AIDS and HIV patients that it is serving on a daily basis.

As for the models and the designers, the fashion show is a venue to present a headdress that “challenged gravity and gave a whole new meaning to the famous sixties song lyric, 'If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair."

Everything was so delicate and fair, as flowers and florists exquisitely weave flowers into the models' hair. In the end, top four most wonderful creations came victorious (and glamorous). "Most Outrageous" was Empress 13 Anne Tique of Imperial Court of New York and Brian Fischer of Morningside Greenhouse for the giant headdress made of pencil cactus, orchids, peony petals and tillandesis; "Most Beautiful" came to Alexis Bittar and Flowers Rock's Victorian Cyber Goth creation; "Most Original" went to FORM New York and Aristocratic by Tammy's white orchid and blue ostrich feather design and "Most Engaging" was awarded to the biggest headdress of the evening, Betsey Johnson and David Tutera's "pussy willow chapeau" with irises, petal brim and grass construction.

Take a glimpse at the wonderful world of floral fashion in "Headdress Affair" and prepare to be mesmerized: