Dollculture

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• 3 #dollcultural tales

  

  When you create something, you tend to tell a private story to yourself first of all.Or, I tend to meet people who do so.I have 2 recent case histories: Veronic... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 09 giugno 2014 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• #areyoufun? I'm jealous

  

  Some of my dolls belong, IMO, to those (just imaginary?) creative, young, urban, sensitive, digital, travelling, eclectic sociable people who love going places... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 01 maggio 2014 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• A Neapolitan Limbo

  

  Every time a friend of mine, being in Naples, sends/takes for me a pic of the famous doll hospital, I feel privileged beacuse of such sign of affection. Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 05 aprile 2014 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• McQueen’s McDoll McAd

  

  Fashion advertising recognizes the power of dolls - even that fetish, the woodoo, the suggestive, the mischievous, the evocative, the archaic power of dolls. Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 25 marzo 2014 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Dolls attending events: #snellobb04

  

  A series of 4 cooking competitions under the Snello Blind Box label involved me as a professional in the last months. But never could I leave home without a... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 23 marzo 2014 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Gaialight & Mila - symbiotic with a mannequin

  

  On this blog I've already shared my reflections on some particular cohabitions of people and dolls - it was about erotic dolls or so (just search within the blo... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 22 marzo 2014 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Carved Curves

  

  Beyond paper dolls, beside Cardboard Ladies. Taking inspiration from Christian Tagliavini's Dame di Cartone, the blogger(s) named Sabine Pierre-Paul Manosque... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 13 marzo 2014 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• ADOLLrable 2014, maybe

  

  After a long #dollcultural silence, only occasionally interrupted by short posts here and at least nourished by a more interactive activity on facebook and an... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 05 gennaio 2014 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• The doll life of Veronica

  

  Veronica Menna and her totally handmade BJDs, I've already written about her: check this blog on June 16 in 2012. Now she has just been awarded a prize in... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 12 dicembre 2013 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Comfort food. Calories don’t count.

  

  I don’t know if we all need comfort, but I do know we all need food.Even a doll might need both of them in a parallele life, as this cute stop motion video**... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 31 agosto 2013 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• An intricate storytelling

  

  Ghada Amer embroiders. And protests. Under the intricate lines and broken stitches of yet suggestive, colorful sewn drawings, by means of a traditional female... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 15 agosto 2013 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• A doll not a doll

  

  A vintage Barbie has never been so sexy, allusive, elusive. So blurred and understated.Please check this wonderful series of doll faces and bodies portrayed by... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 01 agosto 2013 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Blind Box branding!

  

  Although the hashtag on the photo is not the correct one (btw, correct is #snellobb02), my ham taster Momoko doll played her role quite well during "Snello... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 25 luglio 2013 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Dollkit - make your doll!

  

  Frida as a doll (not for the first time, BTW). Or a dollie. Or a pincushion. Or a hanger. Or an amulet. Well, basically, this idea by Miko Design is a printed... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 20 luglio 2013 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• A girl and a girdle

  

  Despite her manifacturer's assumptions and related press offices' statements, the Fashion-Doll-I-Refer-To will be not be forever young. Might as well getting... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 15 luglio 2013 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Dollanatomy from spiritual to surgical

  

  Inside and outside. An openable Madonna from ca 1400, reveiling, like internal organs, a sculpted Trinity. An ancient, surgery concerned (or simply related to... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 07 luglio 2013 ARTE, COLLEZIONISMO

• #snellobb02: never prevent a pre-event

  

  Again a commistion between my professional and my dollcultural side. The occasion? When we headed for a briefing on site to a wonderful, minimal space called... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 30 giugno 2013 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Contemporary melancholy

  

  Who' is she? A melancholic and nameless figurine (recalling contemporary Chinese artworks) spotted by my business partner and NOT doll collector Emanuele, who... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 27 giugno 2013 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• Cu(l)t dolls

  

  This is a Bruce Lee to cut and dress, evidence of how cult characters from non frivolous distance can be paperdollified. Print, cut and play? Pls notice the... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 23 giugno 2013 COLLEZIONISMO, HOBBY, LIFESTYLE

• There's no rose without a thorn

  

  A rose is a rose and a doll is a doll, but these thorned Barbielike legs evoke infinite pains and regretted loves and wasted beauties and expected joys and... Leggere il seguito

  Pubblicato il 20 giugno 2013 HOBBY, LIFESTYLE