Disney × Razan Alazzouni

Our role: Set designDubai, UAE2023PhotographyRelated services: Set design
Behind the scenes of a model on the layered forest set for Disney × Razan Alazzouni.

On set: the forest created for Disney × Razan Alazzouni.

The brief

A Snow White forest

Razan Alazzouni’s collaboration with Disney marked its 100th anniversary with a collection inspired by Snow White. For the Dubai shoot, we designed a forest setting around the collection, using trees and red apples to carry the story into the photographs.

Behind the set

Layering the forest

Project layout for a forest backdrop made from overlapping scenic layers.
The forest layout, adapting historic theatre set designs from museum archives.
The forest set inside a studio, with foreground tree panels, green flooring and red apples.
The installed forest, with scenic layers and red apples referencing Snow White.

The scenery drew on nineteenth-century theatre set designs held in museum archives, originally created for well-known stage productions. We adapted those historic designs into overlapping forest layers, placing tree panels in front of a deeper backdrop. Small trees and apples extended the scene onto the studio floor, leaving space for the model within the forest.

The finished set connects two sources of storytelling: Snow White’s forest and apples, and the scenic craft of nineteenth-century theatre. The backstage photographs show how those archival designs became a layered physical environment for the collection.

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