Cycle in Heels : Creative dolls

vendredi 28 mars 2014

Creative dolls

by Ksenia Gladysheva

This outfit is close to my everyday life style, a baroque printed dress and my favourite vintage Lolita Lempicka flower jacket.

by Ksenia Gladysheva

Alice in wonderland 50's dress with dolls head bow.

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!

by Ksenia Gladysheva

Dolls lace corset with dolls statue of liberty crown.

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."

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.

Dina Goldstein

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.

Dina Goldstein

Personalised necklace made for a woman with the things she likes playing guitar, music notes, seaside and French cock

lovely feature on the dainty dolls house, lot of colours and creativity on this blog!

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The Dainty Dolls House12 avril 2014 à 12:56
Love both of these outfits...my favourite is the blue dress! Such a smart girl to want a picture with you, I would have stopped for one also!! Just beautiful!! Most welcome for the feature, I hope to do a bigger one soon ;-) xx
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Welcome in my world

I am a young designer in fashion costume and jewellery. I graduated last year in an MA in Performance Practice & Design at Central Saint Martins in London. I'm particularly interested in costume design, the performative aspect of costume and it social impact on people.

From my background in performance, the importance of clothing is how it allows you to stage yourself, to give information about who you are, or more precisely, about what you want people think you are.

I'm from Paris but I don't have at all the elegant minimalistic French style, I'm more attracted by bright colours, mismatch prints, shiny materials, over the top dresses. I try to build clothes with material which are not fabric, crossing boundaries of the costume experiment. I think that any object from everyday life can become a fashion accessory. Anything can be stitched on to clothes.

Basically, I like CYCLING and RECYCLING. I love going to charity shops or flee markets and seeing the creative potential of everyday objects. i have always created costume with nothing, sometimes with things I found in the street. I like to give second life to old objects and divert them from their original function. In my creations, i'm using a lots of toys, as a common reference from the collective imagery, a reminder of childhood that everybody shares in every country. I like the idea of transforming a piece of clothes into piece of art. With my creations I would like to foster peoples’ creativity and make them proud of themselves in feeling unique, original and different.

If you have some barbies you are not playing with anymore, Legos, little cars or toys, please give it to me, I will use them and give them an other live!

For commission work, collaboration, press enquiries or just to say hi contact me: anne_so_cvl@hotmail.fr

I am the copyright owner of all creations. In any display or republication or redistribution of any of my ideas, the pictures of my creations displayed on my blog included, every user shall ensure that he/she has my consent, and that the copyright notice shall appear. The copyright notice shall be a hypertext link to my page. thanks!

vendredi 28 mars 2014

Creative dolls

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