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This outfit is close to my everyday life style, a baroque printed dress and my favourite vintage Lolita Lempicka flower jacket.
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| by Ksenia Gladysheva |
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| by Ksenia Gladysheva |
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| by Ksenia Gladysheva |
This adorable little girl was walking in the street and really wanted to take a picture with me, she said she loved my glitter shoes, I like when my outfit can create link with people and see the wonder in children eyes!
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Dolls lace corset with dolls statue of liberty crown.
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by Ksenia Gladysheva
Barbie is wonderful medium to questions the status of femininity, as well as social and political issues, A great article about barbie subversive art which help me to understand WHY I am so fascinated by Barbie.
"The world’s most famous doll is celebrating her 55th birthday, this year Barbie debuted in 1959 and has since amassed a following like no other. It’s estimated that there are over 100,000 Barbie collectors in the world. “My whole philosophy of Barbie was that through the doll, the little girl could be anything she wanted to be. Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices,” creator Ruth Handler once said of the doll. Despite the best intentions, Mattel (and Barbie) has come under fire for promoting an unhealthy body image to young girls. Her impossible figure and perfect life have been a target for many artists who have subverted the Barbie norms to explore its absurdity and question feminine ideals."
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The sickly sweet palette of
Peihang Huang’s Barbie oil paintings take on a morbid tone once you realize that many of the dolls are battered and even dead (in the series
Floral Funeral). Huang feels dolls are “the perfect figure to project human behaviors and philosophies.”
E.V. Day’s "Mummified Barbies" is an ongoing project, exploring western cultural ideas surrounding beauty and the often obsessive quest in contemporary society to preserve female beauty. Ironically, as Day mummifies or preserves the Barbies, their stereotypical beauty is concealed, and their iconic figure is transformed into something more playfully subversive.
Conceptual photographer
Dina Goldstein pulls back the curtain on the Barbie Dreamhouse. Her previous project,
Fallen Princesses, placed iconic pop culture princesses in modern-day situations that found them facing poverty, cancer, and obesity.
In the Dollhousealso
toys with notions of femininity, revealing the struggles and complexities of romantic partnership.
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Personalised necklace made for a woman with the things she likes playing guitar, music notes, seaside and French cock
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