12/15/2011

Mauve Absolue and Forever Veronique

The last doll of 2011 has been offered to W Club members as a lottery event. There are 700 dolls and I'm guessing that even though that is a high number for a lottery, some will not get picked. I haven't been picked for a lottery in more than a year which seems strange because I used to win at least one chance in every lottery. I entered with both of my memberships.

Forever is the beautiful, original Veronique sculpt on an FR2 body. The gown is a duplicate in a different color of the Tenth Anniversary W Club luncheon surprise doll Evermore. So we will have an Evermore and a Forever and that's a good thing because there was a quite an uproar over the announcement of the discontinuance of Vanessa's and Veronique's sculpt.



 I believe this doll is meant to channel or reimagine the original Mauve Absolue seen in the 3 images that follow. Forever is very pretty but really doesn't come close to the original.



Click here to see previously posted images of Evermore Vanessa .

What's A MIM?

I opened an email from the MiM company only to see this EEK image:

Then I laughed. I had spoken months ago with Paulette Goodreau about these clever dolls,  I'm just now seeing the end results of her vision. These dolls are intended for children as opposed to collecting adults; however,  I think they are definitely worth mentioning on this blog.

MIM comes as a basic doll for $89.  She is 16" tall, ball-jointed and comes dressed as shown on the left below.
Basic vinyl colors are Peach, Bronze B and Bronze A. The doll comes packaged in a coordinating sleeping bag with pillow.


You can add optional extra eyes, wigs, outfits, accessories and a mermaid body or a horse body.If you were to choose one of every option, your doll would add up to $202.00. If the outfits and wigs are anything like the Goodreau outfits were, they are a great quality. 


About MiM


About Goodreau Doll LLC

Jason Wu and Jason Wu

I've posted many images of designer runway fashions reinterpreted (copied) for dolls. Here it is again only both are Jason Wu. On the left a Spring 2012 Runway RTW gown and on the right the 2011 convention Veronique, aptly named, Air Apparent doll. 
Beautifully done.