Barbie-Q
Some of our favorite Barbies from the auction for Ballet Philippines last Wednesday:
Contravida Barbies by James Reyes.
Look at that detail: she has tights under her gown.
This brilliant piece is by Joey Samson; I call it Scarlett O’Horror.
Barbie as Dulcinea from Don Quixote, dangling by a lance from a windmill, by Joji Lloren who collaborated with sculptor Ral Arrogante. (The lance was supposed to go through her breast but that idea was deemed too violent.) If this doll had been available when I was a child, even I might’ve wanted a Barbie. I might’ve become a “normal” girl. Hahahaha!
Pitoy Moreno’s Barbie in an intricately-embroidered baro’t saya in lace, pearls and beads was the star of the evening, going for P100,000 in the live auction.
The deadline for our LitWit Challenge 2.3: Bad, Bad Barbie is at 11.59 tonight, so if you haven’t sent in your warped Barbie story, put on your thinking tiaras.
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March 20th, 2010 at 03:33
Barbie scared the living daylights out of me when I was a kid. Not sure why.
I got one for my 8th birthday and I kept imagining the thing would crawl out of the box and choke me to death in my sleep. Kept me up all night.