Haunted Beauty Vampire™ Barbie® Doll

 

The Haunted Beauty Vampire^™ Barbie^® doll wears a red charmeuse and black chiffon gown. Elaborate jeweled accents are featured at the neck highlighted by red and gold trim on the empire waist. Her gothic-inspired red shantung coat with a face-framing collar and full sleeves adds a dramatic touch. Her raven hair, pale skin, crimson lips and delicate white “fangs” will leave you utterly enchanted.

 

New retail she was: $100.00
Gold Label^®

Release Date: 10/3/2013
Product Code: X8280 

 

 

 

Designed by: Bill Greening

This item is currently on backorder.

Doll Details
Body Type:	ModelMuse™
Skin Tone:	Peace
Facial Sculpt:	Glimmer/ Louboutin
Fashion Sewn On?:	No
Eyelashes:	Painted
Customizations:	Necklace attached to dress

 

Included with doll:
Shoes, Ring, Cape, doll stand.

 

There is a limit of 5 dolls per order.

For the adult collector.

Production doll may vary from the photo shown above. Mattel reserves the right to modify the fashion/fabrics, sculpt, hair color/style, and accessories. Doll cannot stand alone as shown.

Doll Collector(s) Profile: La Ron Owens

Doll Collector(s) Profile: La Ron Owens

October 8, 2013

Marilyn Monroe (not really) and Me (on the left)

Q: Can you introduce yourself?

A: Sure? My name is La Ron.  I’m a 39 years old. I am an inspiring Fashion Doll and Couture Clothing Designer. I live in Oakland, CA.


Q: How did you discover Fashion Dolls?

A: I am a big fashion doll collector. For me collecting is a wonderful and exciting journey. It sometimes can be over whelming and if you let it, it will take over your life. Like any collections, it is time consuming (if you let it) and become financially (if you let it) consuming as well. If you think about it fashion dolls are truly a ridicules piece of plastic. Plastic, vinyl, resin or porcelain, it all depends on how much you want to appreciate every bit of it! I love fashion dolls. I love designing for them. I love creating them! I am in no way associated with any doll manufacturers, dealers, designers, artists or toy companies in anyway.


Q: When did you buy your first Fashion Doll?

A: I can’t say the exactly when, but I think it was sometime in 1995 I would guess. I purchased two Barbie dolls. 1 was Jewel Hair Barbie and I also purchased My First Barbie Tea Party Barbie.


Q: How many dolls do you own?    

A: Too many!!! Over the years I have collected so many dolls, I had no idea how many. My husband and I went to down size our storage and that’s when it hit me on how many I truly have. Now I’m downsizing. I’m driving my husband truly mad with my obsession for them and plus it’s financially consuming as well.


Q: What your favorite Doll?

A: I can’t choose between two dolls. I guess I would say my JAMIEshow Sasha Homage doll. She is a tribute to the late Alexander McQueen. She is dressed like Lady Ga Ga from the “Bad Romance” music video and she wears the signature Alexander McQueen armadillo trademark boot heels.


Q: What do you like most about collecting?

A: I enjoy photographing them. I enjoy designing clothes for them. I enjoy designing edgier looks in particular for them.


Q: Some people like to de-box, keep their dolls NRFB or redress which one are you?

A: I’m a huge time de-boxer. All the dolls I have I keep for myself. Sometimes if I can afford it (which is really never) I would buy two of them. One to keep in their box and the other to remove from the box.


Q: Do you collector other dolls?

A: Yes? I collect many different fashion dolls and acton figuars. Star Wars, He-Man, She-Ra. I'm really getting into collecting Ken dolls or any male doll figuars. I love collection black fashion dolls. As well as celebrity dolls too.  


Q: Do you own any OOAK dolls?

A: Yes. I am fortunate to own an Angelina Jolie doll that I commissioned. I had purchased an Avant Guard “Bijoux” by Jason Wu for Integrity Toys. Deborah Bombich by www.JustCreations.com did a wonderful job.


Q: What is your most prized Doll?

A: This is a tough question. I would probably Ivory D’Royce “Glit & Fortune” by SUPERfrock / superDOLL. She is LE (Limited Edition) to 150. Her face-sculpt looks like Marlene Dietrich.


Q: What is the most you ever spent for an FR (Fashion Royalty) doll?

A: $85.00 for Veronique Perrin “Pearlescence”. I still have her to this day.


Q: What would you considered to be your Holy Grail of dolls?

A: I think to have an OOAK (One of a Kind) Marilyn Monroe doll by Noel Cruz. His OOAK’s are a masterpiece. Truly a wonderful work of art.


Q: Have you ever attended a Doll Convention, if so what did you like about it?

A: No. I have not been fortunate to go to one. From what I have read people say they are a lot of fun. I would love seeing the convention dolls and getting a sneak peak of future line. I think the best part of going to a convention would be meeting other doll collectors who share the same hobby.

Fashion dolls

Fashion doll
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

 

Fashion dolls are dolls primarily designed to be dressed to reflect fashion trends. They are manufactured both as toys for children to play with and as collectibles for adult collectors. The dolls are usually modeled after teen girls or adult women, though child, male, and even some non-human variants exist. Contemporary fashion dolls are typically made of vinyl or another plastic.

 

 

 Designer’s profile: Dollrepublik

 

                                            

Designer’s profile: Dollrepublik

The earliest fashion dolls were French bisque dolls from the mid-19th century. Barbie was released by the American toy-company Mattel in 1959, and was followed by many similar vinyl fashion dolls intended as children's toys. The size of the Barbie, 11.5 inches (290 mm) set the standard often used by other manufacturers. But fashion dolls have been made in many different sizes varying from 10.5 inches (270 mm) to 36 inches (900 mm).

Designer’s profile: SOUOL by LOUOS | Dollrepublik

Costumers and seamstresses use fashion dolls as a canvas for their work. Customizers repaint faces, re-root hair, or do other alterations to the dolls themselves. Many of these works are one-of-a-kind. These artists are usually not connected to the original manufacturers and sell their work to collectors.

 History and types

 The earliest bisque dolls from French companies were fashion dolls. These dominated the market between approximately 1860 and 1890. They were made to represent grown up women and intended for children of affluent families to play with and dress in contemporary fashions. These dolls came from companies like Jumeau, Bru, Gaultier, Rohmer, Simone and Huret, though their heads were often manufactured in Germany. In the Passage Choiseul area of Paris an industry grew around making clothing and accessories for the dolls. Childlike bisque dolls appeared in the mid-19th century and overtook the market towards the end of the century.

The original Barbie fashion doll in March 1959 by Mattel

Barbie was launched by the American toy-company Mattel in 1959. Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for fifty years.

The Bild Lilli Doll (German Bild Lilli doll)

 

The Bild Lilli Doll was a German fashion doll produced from 1955 to 1964, based on the comic-strip character Lilli. She is the predecessor of Barbie.

Many fashion doll lines have been inspired by Barbie, or launched as alternatives to Barbie. Tammy was created by the Ideal Toy Company in 1962. Advertised as "The Doll You Love to Dress", Tammy was portrayed as a young American teenager, more "girl next door" than the cosmopolitan image of Barbie. Sindy was created by the British Pedigree Dolls & Toys company in 1963 as a rival to Barbie with a wholesome look. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ideal Toy Company released several larger fashion dolls with hair with adjustable length. The Crissy Doll and friends are 16" and Velvet Doll and friends are 18". British designer Mary Quant's Daisy doll from 1973 had a large selection of contemporary 70s fashion designed by Quant.

Fulla is marketed to children of Islamic and Middle-Eastern countries as an alternative to Barbie. The concept of her evolved around 1999 and she hit stores in late 2003.

Bratz by MGA Entertainment

Bratz were released in 2001, designed by Carter Bryant and manufactured by California toy company MGA Entertainment.

My Scene by Mattel

They are distinguished by large heads with skinny bodies and lush, glossy lips. Mattel introduced the My Scene line in 2002.

Flavas by Mattel

Flavas line in 2003 to rival Bratz.

Monster High (dolls bodies are fully articulated, with removable forearms and hands)

In 2010 Mattel launched the Monster High doll line, based from fantasy and horror monsters.

Asian fashion dolls are made by Asian manufacturers and primarily targeted to an Asian market.

Blythe by Kenner/Takara

Blythe dolls with oversized heads and color changing eyes were originally made by American company Kenner but are now produced by Japanese company Takara.

Pullip by Cheonsang Cheonha

Another doll with an oversized head, Pullip, was created in 2003 in Korea.

Japanese fashion dolls marketed to children included Licca (introduced in 1967) and Jenny (introduced in 1982) by Takara Tomy.

Gene Marshall from the 2008 collection

In the mid-1990s dolls like Gene Marshall from Ashton-Drake.

              

Tyler Wentworth by Tonner

 Tyler Wentworth from Tonner

and

Alexandra Fairchild Ford by Madame Alexander

Alexandra Fairchild Ford from Madame Alexander appeared. They are both between 15.5 and 16 inches (395 and 410 mm,) larger than other common fashion dolls. These dolls are mostly marketed to adult collectors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_doll?vm=r

Gene Marshall

Gene Marshall

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Gene Marshall

 

Gene Marshall is a 15.5 inches tall collectible fashion doll inspired by Hollywood's Golden Age. It was created by the illustrator Mel Odom. Each doll features an intricate movie-styled theme based upon fashions from the 1930s, 40s and 50s as well as Hollywood's version of historical costuming.

 

 

When the Gene Marshall doll appeared on the market in 1995, it was one of the first large fashion dolls primarily intended for adult collectors. Its success sparked the creation of similar dolls from other companies.

 

History

When the Gene Marshall doll appeared on the market in 1995, it was one of the first items of its type and size: a large fashion doll primarily intended for display by adult collectors. Until then, the standard fashion doll had been the 11.5" Barbie, which is still primarily sold as a children's plaything; while some collectors were attracted to limited-edition specialty Barbies, most collectible dolls at the time were constructed with neotenous baby-doll proportions instead of with mature, nubile ones. There was an exception; Mdvanii, the first anatomically-correct fashion doll for adults. Mdvanii renewed Mel Odom's childhood interest in dolls and led him to create Gene Marshall. The popular success of Gene Marshall sparked the invention of an entire genre of similar collectible large fashion dolls from other companies, such as Tyler Wentworth from Tonner Doll Company, Alexandra Fairchild Ford from Madame Alexander and Clea Bella from Bella! Productions.

 

Three years after Gene Marshall's introduction, over half a million had been sold, and a Gene subculture had sprung up including collectibles clubs, magazines, and conventions. Her design is "an amalgam of all the larger-than-life actresses of Hollywood's Golden Era", and costumes that evoke the work of Edith Head are supposed to represent her appearances in specific but fictional films.

 

Gene Marshall (Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee in Gentleman Prefer Blondes)

(Photo by davelandweb.com)

Mel Odom's illustration work has been compared to dolls, and though his career progressed beyond the men's magazines for which he is still best known (he has done book and magazine covers including TIME magazine), he believes that Gene is the "something significant" he has felt bound to do after watching 2/3 of his friends die during the AIDS epidemic. After its debut at the 1995 Toy Fair, Gene became a hit among adult collectors, among them actress Demi Moore ("The World's Most High Profiled Doll Collector", according to the New York Times).

 

Between 1995 and 2005 the dolls were manufactured by the Ashton-Drake Galleries. From 2005 to 2010 the dolls were produced by Jason Wu and made by Integrity Toys. They have a dedicated following and have inspired other characters in the line: Madra Lord, Violet Waters, Ivy Jordan, Trent Osborn, Zita Charles, real-life movie actress Marsha Hunt, and the mysterious Oona Bellweather. These dolls are also popular for artists' one of a kind repaints.

 

Back Story

The doll comes with a detailed backstory, eventually expressed in the novelization Gene Marshall, Girl Star. The character Gene Marshall was born in Cos Cob, Connecticut in 1923, and was discovered by the filmmaker Eric von Sternberg while working in New York City as an usherette. Cast in his next film, she was thrust into a major role when the star fell through a trapdoor during a musical number called "You Floor Me". By the 1950s she was a Hollywood "powerhouse".