Copenhagen, DENMARK – Hanne Utoft, one of the country’s most experienced floral artists, recently put her work on display at Tivoli Gardens amusement park, dressing models in clothes decorated in flowers.
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Utoft, from Skanderborg, Denmark, combined flowers and fashion by creating three pieces over two days at the park’s flower festival.
Along with her team of fashion and flower experts, Utoft worked by taking real flowers and slowly but surely adding them to clothing.
Each of the pieces represented something to her, Utoft said, all stemming from her large imagination and love for magic and color.
In the first of her final three pieces, Utoft’s work represents how she imagines the flower fairy Columbine. The second piece represents the famous Danish fairytale poet, Hans Christian Andersen. The cloak represents the story of “The Little Ida’s Flower,” and the hat of the tale of Thumbelina.
Finally, Utoft said the third piece represents the magic of the forest, inspired by the forests in Skanderborg, where she lives.
Noah Haynes is a Correspondent with Youth Journalism International. He wrote this article and made all the images in this photo essay.
