Dear all,
Another installment of
the Paris Fashion Doll Festival (PFDF) has come and gone. As every year, I have
traveled back with mixed emotions, I guess that is natual considering all
collectors are just human after all and events always bring out the best and
worst behaviours in them (and I am a person to whom a certain standart in
treating other collectors is important). I swear that almost all events that I
ever attended, I wanted to quit collecting or at least stop actively participating
in the (online) communities.
But, I definitely want
to focus on the postive aspects of the festival here and so we best start with
the fabulous Sybarite items that I was able to acquire:
Ming is a Salon made
gown in a limited edition of 12. It features a wonderful shape that is
reminiscent of a Chinese porcelain vase from that period and thefabric has a
wonderful blue color and feels very smooth and silky. I hope to be able to try
this on a doll soon! The gown also arrived packed in a fab garment bag:
The welcome gift from
the Friday event was a hose set packed in a cute little golden bag:
The doll for Friday is
called Etiquette. I love her laser cut dress except for the fact that the
material used for it sparkles but I think I will get used to it. Her face, hair
and shoes (with little Eiffel tower heels!) are fabulous. I am not sure about
her edition size. I know it is supposed to be smaller than the previous years
but I am not sure how large or small exactly. I heard rumours that it is
supposed to be 50 but as I said, I am not sure:
I wanted to try to buy
the limited Sunday doll but could not go early enough due to Personal reasons. She
features a cocoa colored Cocktail frock version of Etiquette’s dress with long
orange gloves and shoes with a large buckle. Her hair is brunette and around shoulder
length (in waves) and her make up is toned down except for bright red lips. She
is very pretty but missing out on her hurt not as much as with Fidele Blond
(altough in that case it was also the circumstances). Her edition size is 25.
One of these days, I will get one of the Sunday dolls.
I think the Saturday
barbie doll was a disappointment for many who are seriously interested as she
is the exact same doll as handed out at another convention in Japan. If I was a
Barbie collector, I would be bummed. Since I am not, this just means that it is
significantly harder for me to sell the doll than last year which is also kind
of a bummer but not as emotional:
There was another
Sybarite gown available on Saturday but I missed out, It was a cocktail length
dress with a butterfly print, coming with matching shoes and a hat in the shape
of a butterfly.
For me personally,
another highlight was getting to know in person my friend Emilia Nieminen who
has been featured on this blog a few times with her repains and her own doll
line, Inamorata. Emilia is absolutely the sweetest person you are ever going to
meet and her love for dolls and the work she is doing is amazing. She displayed
a limited edition doll (Chara Charmeuse, LE 5) as well as a OOAK (Predatrice) which
she both made exclusively for the Festival on Sunday along with a range of
items currently available on her online shop. The display which she had created
for her dolls was incredible and atracted a lot of viewers- it features a
Burlesque club with a stage and a dressing room. My photos are unfortunately
bad cell phone pictures but I am sure that better pictures will soon show up
and flickr.
Superdoll displayed a
set of 2OAK dolls that looked absolutely amazing but photos were not allowed. The
dolls features the Fugu sculpt in a very dark skin tone. They had Mohair wigs
in an intricate hairstyle split to both sides with a hair garment inclduing a
colorful head scarf. Furthermore they wore embeliished red jackets, a short
golden corset ending just below the bust, golden panties and suspenders with
colorful stockings. They had very long, bright red and sharpened finger nails.
I loved them! One of my biggest hopes in doll collecting is that I can one day
bring home such a special doll.
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