Antidote Meets Moschino (Again)

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.

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LE Americana

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.

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Strike A Pose Or Why It Sometimes Matters To Be Faster Than Light

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.

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Whoomp There It Is!

I had some time left after my daily morning rutine so i thought why not check stardoll and see if anything exciting has happend. which is almost never the case but i said to myself "lets not give up hope" and this time there even where something mildly exciting: the new callies picks store (yeay …). however when i "walked" into the store my normal callies picks excitment briefly rose as the first thing i saw was an old classic and by old i mean really old.

 

there it was, dangling from a lifeless arm of a dummy – the f**** ashley bag (excuse my languge). a bag which at one point in stardoll history has driven so many people mad and now it just is part of this mostly unexciting boring callies picks store. people who are newer to stardoll may not even know the importance of this bag. they may even never heard of the burning anger half of dollywood felt when stardoll banished its likes from the bazaar what many assume was an act of desperation as the bag was the reason for a vast amount of rule violations. for me finding this bag in a stardolls version of a very pricey and overrated vintage store was like finding a chanle 2.55 in my local thrift store. maybe i'm overreacting but i really lost my shit for a second when i saw it. did you guys had the same response or was it just me? i for one bought it without thinking to long about it. with 23 sd it's kind of expensive but considering the amount of sd other people payed back in the day i though it was a very very very good deal. i recommend you to buy this bag even if you think it's too expensive believe me buy it and you will free yourself from tons of pain after it's out of the plaza again and everybody who hasn't bought it (for some reason) decides to get it from the bazaar. 

so stardoll if you're reading this maybe also bring back the rest of the mary kate and ashley pieces i mean just ignore all the hate people who bought them for embarrassing high prices will give you (most of them probably have left stardoll long ago) and  put them out there. i mean come on just do it!

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Streetsmart

this one is so so so late. i had this post in my queue for ages but never managed to finish it. long story short here it is (yeay).

some of you may remember the gift-o-meter we had during easter. i have to admit it was one of the better ones. still i'm not fond of the whole concept behind those meters. don't really see the point in buying clothes to get clothes for free if i only get them if i spend a certain amount of money because then i could've just bought them.

streetstyle has already become a big part of fashion weeks all over the world. the show before the show is a good way to take a look at how the professional fashion victims style the items we see on the catwalk. hundrets of photographers are trying to get the perfect pictures of style icons like anna della russo, the beckerman twins,  leandra medine and many more.

of course stardoll is aware of this development in the fashion world and took it upon themself to give us the oppertunity to recreate some of the streetstyle looks seen outside the shows from fall 2015. the looks used as bluprints for the clothes we could get – during the easter gift-o-meter – where captured by my all time favourite streetstyle photographer tommy ton. if this name doesn't ring a bell i strongly recommend checking him out.

i didn't get all the things from the gift-o-meter as i'm not whilling to spend more stardollars as i want only to get all the items from a gift-o-meter (duh!). but the ones i got are shown in the picture below.

 

i totally fell inlove with the jeans, which also where the first items i recognized because i had seen them in a street style look shot by tommy ton.

the bag (gift for spending 15 sd)

the lether ankle boots (gift for spending 25 sd)

a sparkly turtleneck plus the vest  (gift for spending 40 sd)

a pair of momjeans (gift for spending 55 sd)
the cape (gift for spending 160 sd)

 

black bag (gift for spending 100 sd)

brow leather jacket or dress (gift for spending 140 sd)

 

space inspired valentino dress (gift for spending 200 sd)

these are all the original items i could find. i really like the fact that stardoll took pieces from these street style looks and made them part of dollywood. these women really have a great sence in fashion and its nice to have a part of their wardrobe at our hands. so i hope stardoll will do something like this again. i would totally freak out if one day they would open a store inspired by streetstyle looks … … … … … who am i kidding that is never going to happen but a girl can dream can't she?

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