Photo By Michael Williams/mawphoto.com |
News, reviews and photographs of Modern Fashion Dolls including Kingdom Doll, Fashion Royalty, Sybarite, Tonner Doll, Gene Marshall, Barbie and my own experiences as a doll collector.
2/13/2011
Mattel Barbie at NY Toyfair 2011 by Michael Williams
Here is a link to Michael William's fabulous photos from 2011 NY Toyfair's Mattel Displays.
2/11/2011
New Ellowyne and Evangeline Items at Wilde Imagination & Free Shipping
Some very pretty new items went up on the Wilde Imagination sites today. For Ellowyne there are two new dressed dolls, one new basic and three new outfits. The new dolls have inset eyes. The dolls look more alive to me with inset eyes. Both dolls are LE 1,000
Wit's End must be channeling Daniel Boone era. Perhaps she's a dancehall girl from old western movies.
The new outfits below, seem to be toned down compared to prior releases. All are LE 1,000.
For Evangeline there are 10 new outfit items that have been added since I looked last week. They are blouses, skirts, jackets a cape and a bustier ranging in price from $58. to $72. One can buy the "Attic Collection Three" for the tidy sum of $520. It includes all ten items. There are definitely four must haves in that group - maybe 5....
The items are gorgeous!
There is a period of free shipping until the end of February in the continental US with a purchase of at least $75. Add the promo code SPRING11 to your order form.
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I'm not thrilled with the articulation/engineering of Evangeline. I like to play with my dolls and pose them and photograph them. These girls are awkward and difficult to pose. Their joints are kicky. Their heads do not move properly. They can't sit up. I may not buy any more dolls in the line until they improve the poseability. It's definitely not out of the range of the company's abilities. I have less expensive dolls with better articulation. I know that people were influenced by my first reviews and bought dolls. The market definitely has room to grow. The quality of the product needs to grow to meet the demands of a discerning collector. I'm sad to say that Evangeline has the least posing ability of any other fully articulated doll in my collection.
Tears of Endearment $149.00 Wit's End $155.00 |
The new outfits below, seem to be toned down compared to prior releases. All are LE 1,000.
Stolen Moments $74.00 Fur Real $74.00 Ties That Bind $79.00 |
The items are gorgeous!
There is a period of free shipping until the end of February in the continental US with a purchase of at least $75. Add the promo code SPRING11 to your order form.
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I'm not thrilled with the articulation/engineering of Evangeline. I like to play with my dolls and pose them and photograph them. These girls are awkward and difficult to pose. Their joints are kicky. Their heads do not move properly. They can't sit up. I may not buy any more dolls in the line until they improve the poseability. It's definitely not out of the range of the company's abilities. I have less expensive dolls with better articulation. I know that people were influenced by my first reviews and bought dolls. The market definitely has room to grow. The quality of the product needs to grow to meet the demands of a discerning collector. I'm sad to say that Evangeline has the least posing ability of any other fully articulated doll in my collection.
Impressions of the Jason Wu Fall RTW 2011 Collection
Jason Wu - Image from his Facebook Page |
Slide show at WWD
All about beautiful shape of the female body and surface embellishment. Spare. Toned down. No wasted energy. Body hugging slacks. Drapey slacks. Blouses with lacey faux turtlenecks. Skinny ribbon ties around neck.
Lots of skirts and blouses; slacks and blouses.
Brown, ivory and black A few jewel tones here and there. Beautiful embellishments: embroidered, dangly crystals. Embellished shoulders and arms.
Sexy, shapely, minimally made up models with hair tied back.
The very few gowns were shiny, sparkly, flowing and gorgeous.
Overall the designs looked fabulously wearable, sophisticated and classy but nothing daring here.
Most women would love to have these in their wardrobe, me included.
Happily gone are the gladiator and heavy, clunky shoes. Classic pumps.
Could have been gone: feathered garments and some of the lace head and face covers.
2/10/2011
Even More Reinterpreted Runway Fashions
2/09/2011
BC.Com 2011 $10. off code.
I joined up for this year earlier today. It was not without frustration. When they switched their website to the current disaster, I changed my password because I could not log in with the old one. Even though I was recognized as a BC.Com 2010 member apparently that password would not allow their system to register me today. Ugh. After clearing my cache numerous times and dumping all my cookies as per the customer service person, I still couldn't get in. So I hunted down my old password and guess what? It worked. I was signed up and I was able to buy the club dolll #1.
There is a $10. off code that worked: A29029. I used it towards the doll not the membership.
Did you join?
More Reinterpreted Runway Fashions
These were posted on the W Club board at various times. Unfortunately there are no captions for the runway fashions. If you know the designer, please either email me or post it in a comment. I will then add to the caption under each set of images.
Enjoy!
Others have been posted but I am choosing to limit what I post here to those reinterpreted fashions that are obviously wholly inspired by a runway fashion, not the ones that have one or two similar details.
There will be more.
Enjoy!
Left: IT's Costume Drama Giselle Right: Carolina Herrera Gown |
Left: Marie Luisa Gown - Christian Dior/John Galliano Spring 1998 Right: "True Royalty" |
Left: "Lap of Luxury" Convention Fashion Right: Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2007 |
Left: "Discreet" Center: Christian Dior/John Galliano Spring 2010 Right: "Smoldering" |
There will be more.
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