Summer Project Continued Part 4

June 28, 2019

Vanessa "Obsidian Society" 2006
Wearing Gown from Thai doll couturier.

Vanessa "Shock Bonbon" 2004
This Vanessa was the first ever produced by IT.
Wearing "Lana Turner" gown 'Just Brilliant'

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June 27, 2019

Vanessa "High Tide" 2007 
Repainted by Vin Trapani.
Gown by Ovaz.

Vanessa "Cruise Control" Re-rooted 2005
Dress by Antonio Realli, Bag by Lovetones, FR shoes.

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June 26, 2019

Vanessa "Runway Right Away" 2005
Wearing Adaline King "Never Predictable" gown.

Vanessa "Dress Code" 2011
Wearing a OOAK Huckleberry Jackson dress. (hjcouture)

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June 25, 2019

Vanessa "Going Places" 2007
Never redressed.
This was the convention souvenir doll that year.

Vanessa "Night Warrior" 2009
Dolly Style Convention (Japan) Souvenir Doll
Wearing dress from Tatyana Alexandrova "Nouveau Regime."

The original doll was highly sought after. Back in 2009 $245. (¥26250.00) plus postage from Japan was a goodly sum and there were only 300.
I was lucky in those days and got pretty much every doll I wanted either through lotteries or my dealer.

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June 24, 2019


Vanessa "Aerodynamic" 2009
I have two of these dolls. This one has been rerooted. She is wearing a gown by Antonio Realli.

Vanessa "Aerodynamic" 2009  II
She is wearing an RnD fashion.  I crimped her hair and had her repainted by Vin Trapani. I love both of them!

This is the original Aerodynamic Vanessa.

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June 23, 2019

Vanessa "Metal Maven" 2008
Wearing an RND Design gown.

Vanessa Reroot. May have been "Shirred Not Shaken" 2008
Wearing fashion from Jasper "Malicious" 2011 (Nu-Fantasy)

Here is the original Shirred Not Shaken:

Here, I was already getting fed up with her odd hairstyle:

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June 22, 2019

Vanessa "Luxe Life" 2009

She is one of the very few dolls I own who has never been redressed.

The unwelcomed, surprise sculpt change for Vanessa began my detachment from collecting Integrity Toys. I no longer collected my treasured Vanessa dolls and virtually stopped buying any Fashion Royalty dolls for a while. Many of us called the new sculpt "Fauxnessa."

Fauxnessa aka "High Point?" Vanessa 2012

Wearing an artist's design (I forget who.)

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Fashion Royalty: Night Warrior Vanessa arrives from Japan

Number 20 Vanessa joins the tribe. While worthy of the name, she is quite different from her 19 sisters in that she represents a fictional character who wields a sword and might very well have jumped off the pages of a comic book. [Correction: I have been reminded that this doll was created to resemble the character who was played by Kate Beckinsale in the Van Helsing movie.]
Speaking of series, here is the series of Vanessa dolls From the first one in 2004, Shock Bonbon. through the latest, Night Warrior, they have all been ultra-feminine with the exception, perhaps, of Aerodynamic. She carries a chair instead of a sword. Could she be the pre-cursor of a line of weapon-carrying Fashion Royalty dolls? I would prefer the use of different sculpts for warrior dolls. But that's just me. All of the images below are the property of Integrity Toys unless otherwise noted.

Shock Bonbon


Fashionable Life Platinum


Fashionable Life Raven


Poésie Sans Couleur


Runway Right Away


Intoxicating Mix

(Unknown Photographer)

True Royalty


Obsidian Society


Miami Glow


In Bloom

(Photo by Natasha Powers)

Pale Fire


Going Places

(Photo by Natasha Powers)

High Tide


Color Therapy


Metal Maven


Shirred Not Shaken


Cruise Control


Aerodynamic


Luxe Life


Night Warrior

Be very careful when zipping up her boots! They are rather tight and the pants might get caught in the teeth of the zipper. I taped the lower leg right down to her ankle to create a smooth surface and it was still difficult to move the slider.