Posts Tagged ‘fashion styles’

Barbie Basics – New Future Line – Faces

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

12 dolls – 12 different Little Black Dresses – 12 different faces

Barbie_Basics_LBD_Faces

01 – Steffie – light beige skin – straight brown hair with bangs
02 – Mbili – light brown skin – wavey dark blonde hair
03 – Lea-Kayla – very pale skin – straight black hair in a high ponytail
04 – Lara – medium beige skin – straight brown hair
05 – Tango – medium beige skin – shoulder length blonde hair
06 – Mackie – very pale skin – straight blonde hair
07 – Teresa – medium beige skin – straight brunette bob
08 – Kentucky – medium beige skin – straight red hair
09 – Goddess – dark brown skin – short curly black hair
10 – Eternal – medium beige skin – shoulder length wavey blonde hair
11 – Diva – very pale skin – short platinum bob with bangs
12 – Adria – medium brown skin – straight black hair

Please note that the names used above are the names of the face moulds NOT the actual doll’s name… and the descriptions are from sighting (yours truly) of this one image only.

Initial thoughts -
- yay! an Asian doll! then… why only *one* Asian? and why pale? why can’t there be a pale, medium beige and light/medium brown Asian dolls?
- South Asian and Middle Eastern (ok, maybe Teresa might do) representation still totally lacking
- oh look, two of the black dolls have straighter hair than me!
- who’s doll #5? – I am *not* convinced it is the Tango sculpt (of course I could be wrong…) – yep, turns out I am wrong LOL
- why the heck did it take me this long to get around to posting this?
- why so many blondes? (Mbili AA doll included)
- if you look long enough at this image, you start seeing tiny white squares where the black lines cross!
- yeah yeah, of course they’re all absurdly skinny… it is the modelmuse body after all…

So what do YOU think?

ETA (091108) – check out this album by the flickr user dastinkytwinz for real life (and full length) photos the Barbie Basics dolls! – and I’ve also found out that doll #05 does use the Tango face mould…

Asian Style… Without Asians

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

In 2004 (or more like 2002-03), Mattel had the genius idea to create a line of Barbie doll and friends called Fashion Fever. These dolls wore up to date casual fashions and face make up. Sometime during 2004, they released a set of dolls wearing fashions influenced by the Fruit Styles found in Japanese youth culture.

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barbie sku# G9008

Of course, pale blonde Barbie is included.

kayla

kayla sku# G9009

Kayla, a Hispanic-looking character (I don’t have her original outfit…)

drew

drew sku# G9010

Drew, a Caucasian character – she usually has reddish or brunette hair…

teresa sku# G9001

teresa sku# G9011

Teresa… what has happened to Teresa? Is she a brunette Caucasian or a light-skinned Hispanic nowadays?

But no Asian (or Black) representation… seems like Asian fashion styles can be appropriated by the West but can only be worn by non-Asian people? Seriously…

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