Disney Fashionistas Set 2

Designers featured: Chanel, Versace, Donna Karan, Ellie Saab, Antonio Berardi, Jason Wu, Valentino

This will be the last daily Fashionistas for a while - other work priorities beckon! But if I ever see something fashiony that looks neat, one of these lovely ladies will try wearing it!

Disney Fashionista Week 1

So, who remembers the story from last week of how Barney’s are teaming with Disney to sell fashions on hideously grotesque simulacra of Minnie, Daisy & Goofy?

Anyway, Disney fans(and anyone with taste) were pretty unanimous in their disdain for these awful distortions of loved characters. I’m assuming the whole redesign is completely NOT about being faithful to the characters but simply using the Disney name to flog clothes. If that were the case, it would be perfectly valid from a business standpoint. But these aren’t the characters I love and I decided to try showing with a daily sketch on Twitter that Daisy & Minnie can rock haute couture without changing them into scarecrows or draining them of their charm & appeal.

All these fashions are real ensembles from this years’ collections. Armani, Bill Blass, Christian Dior, Oscar de la Renta, Burberry, guest start Janice in Alexander McQueen & Diana Farkhullina.

This is a real Barbie fashion from 1966. Yep, little girls gotta learn how suspender belts work! (the clips really worked too, despite being TINY and Barbie-size)

(and yes, I’m aware self-supporting pantyhose were some years away, shush ;p)

Belle (1991)

I swear this is all I wore from ‘90-94 or so…

Just a little Barbie fashion from 1970

Award Night - a modern Barbie fashion done in the classic 70-80’s style.

I could draw a whole comic like this. It would take FOREVER, but SO pretty..