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Tuesday February 24th, 2009

Fall 2009 London

Roksanda at the Library

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Sunday February 15th, 2009

Gareth Pugh to Make a Barbie

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Part One of Barbie-mania might be over, but the doll’s just getting started. We knew about the Paris leg of her celebration, a Colette hosted bash smack in the middle of Paris Fashion Week with a guaranteed Karl appearance. But Barbie needed to get a Brit involved to round out her fashion trifecta and according Read more →

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Saturday February 14th, 2009

Beauty

My Barbie World: Part I

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Monday January 26th, 2009

Beauty

Life in Plastic, It’s Fantastic

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Fall 09 Fashion Week’s theme is turning out half-Barbie, half-recession. While more and more designers pull out and scale back, Barbie’s taking on New York with all the force her tiny waist can muster. First up, it’s two days of Barbie makeovers at the 5th Avenue Sephora. To celebrate the doll’s golden anniversary, Stila’s releasing Read more →

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Wednesday December 24th, 2008

Oppenheimer Does Barbie

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Remember that unauthorized Anna Wintour biography that everybody read but never talked about aloud? Well, its author, Jerry Oppenheimer, is at it again. This time’s victim? Barbie. To coincide with the doll’s 50th anniversary, and subsequent takeover of fashion, Oppenheimer’s taken Barbie to task, revealing that a “’70s swinger and wife swapper with all kinds Read more →

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Monday December 22nd, 2008

Fashion Is Fun

Fashion is So Plastic

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Details of that post-Fashion Week collaboration between Barbie and Jeremy Scott are finally out via NYLON, in case you forgot that Barbie’s getting her own show this coming Fashion Week (which is being heavily sponsored by Mattel), in celebration of the doll’s 50th birthday. Jeremy’s portion of the Barbie runway show (which will also include Read more →

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Friday November 14th, 2008

Fashionista Barbie

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Barbie’s getting a make-over for her 50th birthday, and with it comes a real live runway show during Fall 09 Fashion Week. Mattel wants to up the doll’s fashion cred which means life-size outfits designed by fifty life-size designers including Alexander Wang. Will Ken still love Barbie when she trades in her sequin gowns for Read more →

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Thursday July 10th, 2008

Barbie Gets Made Over

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An invite just came in the mail – to a Pink Plastic Party. Of course it’s in LA, so we can’t go, but we’re still excited about its cause. Tarina Tarantino, former model and queen of nineties rhinestone hair accessories, partnered with Mattel to make her own Barbie Doll. We’d pretty much die if we Read more →

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Monday June 9th, 2008

Fashion Is Fun

Make Clothes for Barbie

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Something a lot of people don’t realize is that designers really don’t make that much money, especially when they’re starting out, and it pretty much stays that way except for the Donnas and Marcs of Seventh Ave. And because we know there must be hordes of recent Parsons and FIT grads looking for jobs this Read more →

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Tuesday February 12th, 2008

Fashion Is Fun

Barbie Saves the Day

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It’s cold, we’re exhausted and getting sick. But then our FedEx guy arrived with Barbie iDesign, and all was good again. The case bragged: “Be Your Own Stylist!”, “Dress Barbie Like You’ve Always Wanted!” Visions of retro Barbie in a white ruched bathing suit with vintage shades danced in our head. But once we reached Read more →

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Monday January 7th, 2008

Fashion Is Fun

Chanel’s Knit Wit

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When we were in grade school, we used to wrap our Barbies in toilet paper dyed with food coloring. The resulting effect looked like one of the cooler offerings from Matthew Williamson, in a teeny size and without the beading. Making them was a favorite Sunday activity. Now it seems homemade Barbie outfits have gotten Read more →

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Published at 10:58 AM