Some kids have all the luck! This amazing dad designs the most beautiful costumes for his Disney-loving daughter, and it’s the cutest thing you’ll see all day.

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What little kid doesn’t like to dress up as their favorite Disney character? Unfortunately for mom and dad, however, authentic Disney costumes are often expensive and hard to come by, and so many families end up making their own dressing-up gear from old clothes and whatever scrap material is lying around the house. But that’s definitely not the case for this little girl, since she has one of the best – and most creative – dads in the world…

Meet Nephi Garcia. Garcia is a fashion designer who swapped the world of couture for the magical world of Disney – and his three kids are probably very glad he did, too. After all, not only do they now have a dress-up box that is the envy of children all over the world, but in their gladrags they look incredibly like they just jumped out of a Disney animation.

Unsurprisingly, it all started with a trip to Disneyland. Garcia’s little daughter Lili wanted to go to the park dressed as the Fairy Godmother, with her wish duly granted when dad put his fashion know-how to good use and designed her a fabulous gown. What’s more, on the day of the trip the dress proved to be a massive hit with other families at the park. As Garcia explained to The Huffington Post in June 2016, “Everybody was complimenting her and everybody was asking, ‘Oh my god, does she have an Instagram account?’”

The family didn’t actually have an Instagram profile, but they were soon encouraged to start one. Thus the “Designer Daddy” Instagram account was born, and by the very next day Garcia already had ten requests from Disney fans who wanted a costume of their own.

Making fabulous gowns like this one, however, requires a little more than simply waving a magic wand and going “bibbidi bobbidi boo.” The dresses are incredibly intricate, and each design requires an unbelievable amount of work.

For example, in the movie Cinderella the titular character’s dress is held up by little birds. Now, most people wouldn’t have even attempted to replicate that – but Garcia did! And the creative dad pulled it off brilliantly, using concealed wire to give the impression that the birds are suspended in mid-air.

Garcia spends a minimum of four hours on a child’s costume, although some of the more complicated designs can take far longer. And Designer Daddy doesn’t just make gowns for kids, either; after all, grown women want to dress up as Disney princesses, too, sometimes…

Garcia’s beautiful wife Bethanie, in fact, is the one modeling the adult costumes on Instagram – all works of art that understandably require a lot more work than the kids’ designs, and can take up to 48 hours to complete. It’s not surprising, then, that they cost more, too. In fact, prices for an adult costume start at $1,800 – over double the starting price of one for a child.

These gorgeous gowns are more than worth the money, though – not just because of the intricate design and painstaking attention to detail that makes them so beautiful to look at, but the choice of material used in their creation. For one, Garcia uses organic silk imported from Europe to make the dresses extra luxurious. “I don’t charge cheaply, but I also don’t deliver a cheap product,” he told BuzzFeed.

Of course, Garcia’s three kids don’t have to pay a dime for their costumes. It certainly helps that they’re proving to be excellent models for the Designer Daddy range too – they look adorable in them! Even his youngest child got to join in with this Peter Pan cosplay in a Disney Store, and looked cute as a button at it.

But oldest child and only daughter Lili is probably having the most fun with dad’s new job. In fact, she’s constantly challenging him to make more and more elaborate costumes. And it seems she has every faith in her dad’s talents, given that she’s asked him to make a frog costume that can magically morph into Tiana’s dress from The Princess and the Frog. Good luck with that one, Designer Daddy…

“We take “Dress Up” to the next level. It’s a serious business in my house, trust me,” reads the blurb on the Designer Daddy Facebook page. And it’s 100 percent correct: let’s face it, the Garcia family cosplays are totally above and beyond those of your typical family.

Small wonder, then, that other dedicated cosplayers are starting to get in on the act, too. Jen, for example, who pens the blog “Inspired Family of 5,” commissioned several costumes from Designer Daddy to make her kids feel like princesses at Disneyworld.

And Jen seemed more than happy with her purchases, judging from what she wrote after the family outing. “When my daughter slipped on that first gorgeous Victorian-style dress and glided down Main St. like a princess, holding hands with her best friend,” she described, “the magic of Disneyland jumped to a whole new level.”

The magic of Designer Daddy has been taken to a whole new level over the past few years as well. Star Wars has now been added to the Disney line-up, after all, and the iconic sci-fi series is proving to be an endless font of beautiful costumes from Garcia – for boys as well as girls.

Lili’s must-have costumes come from an older Disney movie, though. “Peter Pan is Lili’s favourite as she has two – a normal look and a Peter Pan-inspired gown which she absolutely loves,” Garcia told the Daily Mail.

And the lucky little girl gets to show off those dresses a lot. The Garcia family – who, as it happens, live just down the road from Disneyland in southern California – can visit the park up to 128 times in a year!

So it’s not surprising that the family are becoming big stars at the park, with little Lili in particular making a big impression. “Lili has been told a few times by the princesses that her dress is better and she loves that,” her dad revealed to the Daily Mail.

It seems like this is just the start of the family’s adventures, however. Well, perhaps: Garcia certainly hopes that someday he’ll be making costumes for the stage or dressing Hollywood stars.

After the success of his Designer Daddy Instagram account, though, Garcia launched an online shop called Little Bright Dress, which may yet see his wishes be granted. As for what he’s learned from his newfound success? “If there’s one thing I could share from my experience, is that if you want to follow your dreams, just do it,” he told the Daily Mail. Now that’s a Disney-perfect motto right there.