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Showing posts with label BARBIE♥. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BARBIE♥. Show all posts
Sunday, November 29, 2009
A wedding is a door to happiness,
When two decide to share their lives as one.
Your marriage is an adventure bright and new;
The pleasures and delights have just begun.
I/We wish for you a lifetime full of love;
May you always keep that magical attraction.
Let your bond and your commitment grow with time,
So that all your days are filled with satisfaction.
When two decide to share their lives as one.
Your marriage is an adventure bright and new;
The pleasures and delights have just begun.
I/We wish for you a lifetime full of love;
May you always keep that magical attraction.
Let your bond and your commitment grow with time,
So that all your days are filled with satisfaction.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
As it's Barbie's 50th anniversary this year (the reason for the rather odd Barbie inspired show Mattel have just hosted at New York fashion week - see below) we thought we'd dedicate a post to her, given that in some ways she's the ultimate fashion icon, and a sort of pop art object. You might want to look away now if you're a fashion diabetic who can't tolerate such levels of sugary sweetness..
Rebecca Taylor, Betsey Johnson
Diane von Furstenberg, Vera Wang
Monique Lhuillier, Marchesa. Various designers were roped in to produce a Barbie-esque outfit for the show, including Christian Louboutin who came up with the suitably pink shoes, although we're puzzled as to why the organisers didn't make it more fun by booking models who actually looked like Barbie, and then doing their hair and make-up accordingly. With the models they chose it just looks like a rather odd regular fashion show: the kitsch factor isn't nearly high enough to pull it all together, even if the outfits are fun.
Anyway, with this Barbie-fest going on, we were inspired to look in our large design book collection to see if there was anything on Barbie. Surprisingly, we found this "Apple Identifier to Barbie Dolls":
We have no idea why or how we acquired it (oddly it's a guide for hardcore Barbie collectors, with sections like "The Ponytail Era" - and as strange as our hobbies may be, Barbie collecting is not among them), but it has some fun pictures, and we're amazed how up-to-date some of Barbie's outfits from over 30 years ago look:
Hervé Léger bandage dress, anyone?
Prada SS09 gold?
Roland Mouret style tailoring?
Serious Barbie fans may be interested in fashion-publisher Assouline's new book, "The Ultimate Collection: Barbie", which costs $500, and doubtless has a much larger collection of photos, perhaps including the various Barbie outfits that have actually been designed by high fashion designers. The photos are removable, which means they can be displayed elsewhere too.
We told ourselves that one sugar-coated post about Barbie's 50th anniversary would be more than enough, but it seems there's so much more to the celebrations we couldn't resist another. At Colette (the super-hip Paris store), Barbie mania will begin on March 9th when the Barbie Room lands on the first floor.For sale there will be highly limited edition prints of the Barbies designed and photographed (with a real male model) by Karl Lagerfeld (see above), a collection of Barbie clothes designed by Jeremy Scott, Linda Farrow sunglasses, a mini pink Goyard trunk.. Ladurée have even created a special pink dessert that will be served in the store's famous Water Bar café. The store windows will be Barbie-themed, on 12th March there'll be an in-store exhibition of some of the first ever Barbie dolls (final image), and we think we heard they're even holding a Barbie birthday bash that will coincide neatly with Paris fashion week.
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