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A report from Paris part 2

By On March 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The main event on the Saturday of Paris Fashion Doll Festival weekend is the banquet luncheon and the silent auction that precedes it. However the day was getting off to a rather shaky start what with all festivities of the previous night at ‘Disco 3000’ and we were running, or rather [...]

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A report from Paris 2010 Part 1

By On March 15, 2010 · 3 Comments

Well dear reader, as I am now safely back in the UK I thought I ought to put finger to keyboard and right a review of my first Fashion Doll convention. So here we have part 1…

The Paris Fashion Doll Festival 2010 took place at the Novotel Paris Est at the end on the [...]

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Barbie is a geek!

By On February 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment

For the first time ever, Barbie® asked the world to help her select her next career. Over the past few months Barbie® did research around the world and also conducted an online voting campaign, calling upon the world to vote for her next career — Barbie® has asked her Twitter [...]

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Paris Fashion Doll Festival 2010 update

By On February 14, 2010 · 6 Comments

The Paris Doll Expo site has been updated with an itinerary of the weekend’s events. Needless to say I am getting most excited at the prospect of the Superfrock “Disco 3000″ event on the Friday evening. Especially to see what the exclusive doll will be, given that the theme of the festival is [...]

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Mattel Ladies of the 80′s Dolls

By On January 30, 2010 · 2 Comments

I received a wee notelett through my electronic mailbox yesterday from those lovely folks at Mattel showing off the latest additions to their pop culture range of dolls “Ladies of the 80′s”. There are three dolls in all representing key female singers of the 80′s; Cyndi Lauper,

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Interesting history of Barbie clip

By On May 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

http://embed.5min.com/99795058/
History of The Barbie Doll

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The Kensington low down…

By On May 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I left the comfort zone of the countryside to venture down to Kensington this morning in order to check out the May Kensington Doll Show. Luckily for my bank account there wasn’t much that caught my eye although we did end up parting with almost a day’s wages for lunch at [...]

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1959 Barbie commercial

By On February 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

To celebrate Barbie‘s 50th birthday here we have her very first appearence in a commercial. They sure don’t make them like this anymore!

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Barbie hits the big 5-0!

By On February 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Barbie first hit the doll scene way back in 1959 making her exactly 50 years old on March 9th. Whether you love her or hate her (whilst still secretly loving her!) there’s no denying that without Barbie’s introduction to the market by Mattel there wouldn’t be the amazing array of [...]

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Welcome to the blog!

By On September 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to this new dollcentric blog dedicated to the study, research and absolute joy of collecting and obsessing about fashion dolls. Whether they be Tyler Wentworth (or her very good friend Sydney Chase as pictured), Silkstone Barbie,

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