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Yves Saint Laurent Barbies

I tried to log onto Barbie.com to hopefully order at least one of these dolls but couldn’t because the site was down. But I logged on with great enthusiasm when the site came back hoping to order at least one of these dolls e.g. the one in the colour block dress or the safari jacket. However, these plans came to an abrupt halt when I saw the price of each doll. I haven’t seen these dolls in person (yet) but at US$150 per doll, I feel these dolls are terribly overpriced.

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Photo credit: Mattel.com

Yes, I could be wrong because maybe the outfit is really detailed but past experience hasn’t shown this to be true especially when it comes to the quality of the outfit, face paint and so on. I looked at the description of the doll in the safari jacket and discovered that the doll has a model muse body and that the eyelashes on the doll are painted. Included with the doll are a safari jacket, belt, knee-length shorts, hat, suede boots, earrings and doll stand.

I’ve had Barbie dolls when I was a kid. My first doll was the Sweet 16 Barbie from the 1970s. I started collecting Barbie as an adult in 1996 and only stopped when I ran out of space. Although I am now supposed to be reducing the size of my collection, I haven’t been able to stop myself from buying some dolls from time to time as my posts have shown but the quality of new dolls have been dropping and I just can’t bring myself to spend that kind of money until I’ve seen some favourable reviews of these dolls. Yes, I know the Yves Saint Laurent name is associated with these dolls but although the brand is different we’ve all seen these designer name dolls over the years so nothing new on that front. I might get a lot of grief for this post but this is my opinion at this point in time.

PS: Just looked at the photos again and love the packaging

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