The Princess Blog

The Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade , one of the best princess events in existence, was inspired by the 1986 Jim Henson movie, Labyrinth . Though the protagonist Sarah is not a princess, the most iconic scene is when David Bowie 's character brings her to a royal masquerade ball where her dress is transformed into a magnificent ballgown. Throughout the movie, Sarah interacts with puppet characters on her quest to recover her baby brother from the Goblin King's labyrinth. Jim Henson has always shown muppets interacting with humans, but it is not too common to see them in princess stories and even less common for princesses to be portrayed as puppets. Jim Henson made a handful of fairy tale muppet specials with mixed results. The best by far is  Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince  from 1971 based on the classic fairy tale with a few fun twists. Melora is a beautiful human princess who is cursed to have her words twisted so her father can't understand her when speaks. ...

Have you ever wished you could put on a princess dress and fly away to a magical realm where anything is possible? The  Labyrinth Masquerade Ball  is the closest thing you can get to that, and it just came back to  the Millenium Biltmore Hotel  here in Los Angeles for its twentieth year! My husband I had the pleasure of being among its may attendees last night. As a bonus, it even gave me a rare excuse to wear my wedding dress again. I was surprised how many compliments I got on it, considering how many elaborate fantasy and faery costumes there were. Beginning in 1997, the Labyrinth of Jareth was inspired by the  masquerade scene  featuring the late David Bowie in Jim Henson's 1986 film, Labyrinth . In order to recreate the dreamlike quality of the film, the event requires all attendees to wear either formal attire and masks or elaborate fantasy costumes. People go all out for this each year, donning tons of glittery, enormous wings, face paint, ...