In the latest installment of Annie Leibovitz’s Disney Dream Portraits series we have Penelope Cruz as Belle and Jeff Bridges her prince in a shot title  “Tale As Old As Time”, inspired by “Beauty and the Beast” (above) and Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen and Alec Baldwin the Spirit in the Magic Mirror in a scene entitled “Famed Is Thy Beauty”, inspired by “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (below).

Queen Latifah as Ursula the Sea Witch from “The Little Mermaid”.

Which one is your favourite photos from this series? I liked Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella and Tina Fey as Tinkerbell but Penelope as Belle is my new favorite!

And if you missed out on the rest of his collection, here are more great disney fantasy photographs by Annie Leibovitz

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Emerson House

Emerson House draws inspiration from Richard Neutra’s Desert House and A. Quincy Jones’ house for Gary Cooper. With seven rooms including a living room, kitchen, dinning room, library/office, master bedroom, bathroom and child’s bedroom, it features many distinguishing architectural features like glass corners, minimalist cut stone fireplace, scored hardwood floors and recessed LED lights powered by solar panels. Emerson House measures 18”x21”30” (H-W-L) and is built at 1:18 scale.

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Classic Contemporary Furniture

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Classic Contemporary offers furnishings for seven rooms and is fashioned from high-quality woods and non-toxic, lead-free stains and paints.

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Adorable dessert decorating kit by Whipple, consisting of icing and an assortment of plain cakes, cookies and donuts, pie crusts, choux pastry shells and ice-cream cones.

“So you pipe the fake whipped cream thingy onto these fake ice cream cone thingy? That’s it? Who’d buy that?”

“Me!” :D

Would make a cute gift for a little (or not so little) pastry designer, don’t you think?