Inamorata dolls by Em'lia Couture - first release doll Inro

Hi everyone,

I'd like to introduce an all new fashion doll for 2013: Inamorata dolls, the creation of designer Emilia Nieminen, whose fabulous OOAK commission work on other creator's dolls I already featured in this blog (http://fashiondolldiaries.blogspot.de/2013/02/spotlight-on-one-of-kind-dolls-by-emlia.html).
This year, Emilia is ready to take the final big step to creating and distibuting her own dolls and I can tell that she is completely and utterly determined to bring her own vision of beauty and quality to other doll collectors. Emilia is currently in China supervising the production of her first limited edition doll, which will be presented further down in this blog entry, called Inro. And the way I know her, this means she holds and inspects every doll of the edition of 40 (sometimes I feel a bit sorry for the factory workers since I can only imagine what it means to work with a perfectionist inspecting every single doll you make ;) ).

One thing that struck me about Inamorata is that they are very much designed from the point of view of someone who collected dolls for many years. Every positive and negative experience that Emilia ever made when working on commission pieces went into these dolls, be it the poseability of different types of joints, the question where the visibility of joints was bothering her most when taking photos, or the natural look of bone and muscle structures in the body.

But let's jump right in with some basic facts and some photos. All photos in this blog post have been taken by Emilia Nieminen and be sure to visit her home page and flickr page to find out more about her dolls, or if you'd like to order:

www.emiliacouture.com
www.flickr.com/photos/emiliacouture

Inamortata dolls are 16" in size and have 21 points of articulation. Emilia has already reveiled two head sculpts for Inamorata: the Asian sculpt Miao and the African inspired sculpt Nnaji. Emilia told me that she spend a lot of time trying to create the most autentic sculpts she could and I think the results speak for themselves- here is Nnaji:

 

 

One great example for thinking from a collector's perspective is that Inamorata dolls comewith four different kinds of hands to increase the range of expressions for photos, but this also includes one pair of (dressing hands" that you can put on to navigate the doll's arms trough sleeves without damaging the fabric or the fingers of the doll when they tangle. The photo shows prototype designs:

 

And here you see the Miao sculpt:

 

In case you fell in love with this cute little face instantly I have good news for you: this is the screening used for the first Inamorata doll called Inro which will be commercially available and go on sale at Emilias homepage www.emilicaouture.com on February 15 in an edition of 40. There is currently no pricing information available and her outfit is still to be revealed. However, here is another photo including her exact measurements:

And finally, here are teasers of Emilia's prototype Inro doll which gives us the theme for this doll release: she is inspired by feudal Japan and Samurai harness!