not really a get the look post but an update on the most essential pieces in my medolls closet. the post may will be split into more then one part. i just have to see how much work i have to put into it. so stay tuned. this blog still isn't dead ;) .
so i thoguht i make a quick post to wish you all a merry christmas. i hope you enjoy the holiday season and charge your batteries for the new year 2016. i sure do. lost of good food and quality family time are the best way of leaving the stress from the last 12 months behind.
so after many months we got a new antidote store, ok not a real store with floors and all that shazam but a pop up window store. better than nothing. just like with all the limited releases on stardoll people totally freaked out about the small moschino inspired collection. it's amazing how stardoll managed to get people excieted about antidote again and all that it took was to leave as much time as possible between the release of each antidote collection. a method they had used before. we had waiting times of over a year between some antidote collections.
i used to be more of an antidote fangirl and not that much into LE. but comparing this new antidote collection with the last LE americana collection i think both stores were equally strong. but lets talk about the source of inspiration for this antidote collection: moschino.
antidote and jeremy scott have somewhat of a history as some of the older antidote collections were inspired by his work. now that jeremy scott is creative director of moschino it's only natural for stardoll to recreate his designs for the italian fashion brand aswell. i for one am surprised stardoll hasn't copied any of the moschino barbie collection yet. i mean this seams to be a no-brainer for me … you could sell tons of pink shirts and glitter dresses stardoll! this time antidote were based on moschinos fall winter 2015 ready to wear collection in which jeremy scott paid his respect to chanels famous 1991 hip hop inspired collection.
SIDENOTE: i saw a comment on USD where someone said jeremy scott would copy other designers by putting symbols that looked like the chanel logo onto his clothes. it's not copying it's a reference to an era which is being glorified by young people all over the world. young people who couldn't even walk or weren't even born when this very iconic chanel collection was released. 90s nostalgia is a huge thing for the fashion industry and jeremy scott showed his version of this phenomenon by reinterpreting or referencing this famous chanel collection. i mean before you say something bad about an artist like jeremy scott get your facts straight girl! (sorry needed to let that out of my system)
the collection was good. the quality was decent and the pieces they decided to recreate captured the essence of jeremy scotts collection. the only thing i wasn't pleased with was the size of the collection. after such a long time since the last antidote release (which i sadly missed) i would have been more happy with a "real" antidote store and not just a pop up store in a starplaza window.
of course i bought some things from this collection but i tried to just choose things i could really use and as this collection was small from the beginning i didn't spend that much.
i was lucky do get my virtual hands on that black fur coat it sold out amazingly quick. these days i mostly buy minimlasitc items for my medolls mainly normcore inspired looks but antidote always gives me the opportunity to buy some eccentric eye catcher items like those quirky smiley face shades. i also got my medoll some of that 90s chanel inspired pieces by buying the blue antidote bags. i was so glad they used this kind of electric blue and not a horrible pink.
the last two weeks on stardoll where incredibly dull and i was kind of happy for this limited release. however i just hope stardoll will come up with something bigger for the next antidote collection but until than we have to wait but hopefully not for another 7 months.
new LE. the theme was americana. so we got stars and stripes, jeans and leather. but most important: we got wearable.
LE is often easy to compare to the phenomenon of haute couture. it's expensive, only a few can afford to buy it and there are only so much pieces of every item but one thing most LE collections (much like haute couture) lack is wearability. of course when it comes to haute couture we can sweep this lack of pieces one can actually wear in an everyday life under the rug as haute couture is considered art and a very respected craft but LE most definitly is not. so that's why i prefer a down to earth LE collection (like this one) over any kind of tacky fairytale LE collection. some of you may disagree and i can understand that but this is just my humble opinion. however this new LE collection shows some remarkable pieces which will be neglected by the genral public like those wonderful crushed velvet slides inspired by marc jacobs, because pieces like those slides may be to close to the clothes everbody can buy outside of stardoll. on the other hand we can find effortless and beautiful pieces which got sold out within minutes of the collections release (like the americana platformers). all in all i think we got a decent LE collection. of course it was a bit mean to release a new LE collection right after re-releasing the first ever LE collection a few days earlier but hey stardoll needs to make money somehow don't they …
so here is what i got. in case you're courious.
these are the items i got from the LE americana collection and as you can see evey one them fits very good into my medolls wordobe. thanks to the elegant and simple designs of those pieces it's not so difficult integrate into the look of my medoll which is another reason why i like wearable items much more than overwhelming and huge garments.
strike a pose (or SAP) is a huge think on stardoll, that much i know. yesterday the store opend its doors for another collection full of posed clothes or however you want to call them. in the outside world posing is nothing special. we move we pose. easy peasy. but for a doll in dollywood this kind of freedom is a huge deal. which makes SAP collection very popular. infact there are so popualr i managed to miss out on every single one so far. but not this time i thought. this SAP round was mine. i had friday off meaning all day to hang infront of my laptop waiting for the collection to be released. i know this kind of routine from LE and i have to admit i really like watching the madness which is always taking place in the comments of underneath stardoll. girls talking about not sleeping for hours so they wouldn't miss out on the collection. just pure comedy gold i tell you. but then everything went from sleepy to speedy. the collection came out and everybody rushed to the plaza to get their favourite items. as did i. and this is what i got.
so as you can see i didn't get much. even tought i really rushed i still got a sold out notification on most of the items i smashed into my check out. the reason for that wasn't me being too slow i know that in times like these you have to act fast. the reason was a simple factor the stardoll staff had somewhat forgot about. the factor that most of dollywoods population is female and *drumroll* white. most dolls are white or have a light skintone. nothing wrong about that. wrong was only the fact that this SAP collection was avaliable in different skintones and of course the first one (within seconds after the store opened) to go was the light skintone. which left me and a bunch of others i asume empty handed.
as frustratiting as this expirience was stardoll managed to correct their mistake by restocking all the light skintone items of yesterdays SAP release to restore fairness and keep their customers happy.
