Fashionable Horses

This rather unusual fashion show took place in front of the McArthur Glen Swindon Designer Outlet. Celebrating the launch of the races fashion season, models paraded down the catwalk on three different 17 hands-high horses.

Photographer Elena Litsova shot this beautiful windswept image in Iceland. The horses certainly seem to approve of the model’s outfit.

Claudia Schiffer models alongside a stunning white horse for the Otto catalogue in her home country of Germany back in July 2000.

This lovely shot was taken at last year’s Royal Ascot to celebrate the event’s 300th anniversary. The horse ‘Ambers’ is sporting an £8,000 feathered design hat by acclaimed UK designer Stephen Jones.

This cowboy (or should that be cowgirl?) themed shot was taken by photographer Daniel Bendjy. Presumably, straight after this shot they rode off into the sunset.

Photographer Jim Jordan creates an iconic shot, blending the barren surroundings of the desert with a stunning white horse.

Slovakian model and actress Adriana Karembeu pictured on horseback back in 2006, to promote the opening of a new spa facility in Bora Bora.

Elle Macpherson posing with a horse on holiday in Spain back in 2000. The Australian model has worked with animals on a number of fashion shoots and is also a keen horse rider.

This striking picture of model and actress Caroline Munro with a beautiful white horse was shot in 1968. Munro went on to become a star of horror, science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as playing a Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Photographer Julia Savchenko depicts a beautiful woman walking a horse through a winter forest.

Spanish photographer Ibai Acevedo shot this medieval themed photo of a woman and her horse in an autumn forest.

British photographer Ian Egner’s fashion editorial for En Vie magazine featured two sisters and their wonderful horses. He said he wanted to capture the British countryside during the change between winter and spring.

A model rides an Arabian horse down the catwalk in Paris sporting an abaya, a traditional Islamic overgarment, designed by John Galliano.