Tan Nap Elyse Fashion Royalty Doll

The 2nd Net-A-Porter Jason Wu tenth anniversary is for sale... and sold out!

Dec five, 2017

We have gotten used to it by now... special tenth ceremony limited edition doll past Jason Wu goes on auction by online luxury retailer, usually earlier than anticipated, people scramble to get her, tears and tantrums ensue, people lash out at forums and social media about how bad the process is. Happened withal again with the second Net-A-Porter released Elyse Jolie.

The doll started trickling out from the Asian websites of Internet-A-Porter, and so the wave moved on to Europe, to finally crush down on the US. If yous were non prepared to wake up,earlier than usual, proceed searching and refreshing the website and have credit carte du jour ready to spend $200 in the United states of america, AU$362.88 in Australia ($277.25 U.s.), HK$2,240 In Hong Kong (286,lxx U.s.$), US$282.24 plus taxes in Republic of korea, €278 in France (329,64 The states$), €284 in Italia (336,75 U.s.a.$), or £255 in the U.k. (342,31 US$), well, why carp? This is not the way to enjoy a hobby, bask in the beauty of a collectible doll and get satisfaction from calculation her to your collection. At least that's what I think. Other people will tell you this is the manner collecting Fashion dolls goes, you should be prepared for stuff like this when starting your collection and so on. Just why? Just to get another coveted, limited edition doll that will be forgotten when the side by side one comes along? Exercise you call up all these anniversary dolls will achieve holy grail status and be as coveted as, let's say, A Fashionable Life or True Royalty Vanessas?

This Elyse had the following description on the retailer's website:

Elevation 32cm
Width 9cm

EXCLUSIVE AT NET-A-PORTER.COM. Little known fact - Jason Wu was a toy designer before starting his acclaimed fashion career. Created to mark his 10th anniversary and celebrate his whimsical background, this express edition doll is styled in a one-shoulder blood-red and blackness mini clothes from the business firm's Fall 'xiii runway and features ultra long eyelashes. It comes with a brandish stand, coordinating lace-up pumps and interchangeable manicured hands.

Comes in designer packaging
Product number: 1046363

The photographs are so obviously not by Integrity. The NAP team have no idea how to pose the doll or even prepare her upwards on the stand up properly (the underarm support was placed at the hips, lol), which goes to show how a non-collector buyer will deal with the doll. If she wasn't dressed in box, no way they'd bother. And I wonder, why not inquire someone who does know? A luxury retailer would do that, wouldn't they? Unless their margin is so depression, they did not even want to deal with it. Then once more, if that is the instance, why not make the dolls available straight to fashion doll collectors through the usual channels? It did non even gain enough press coverage to justify it equally a publicity stunt.

She looks nice though. I beloved the pleating and sewing of the dress (I guess the snag at the back is just a badly airtight zipper) and the shoes wait very detailed. It does remind me of the ITBE dresses but it is much better. Only again, no jewellery and no bag or other accessories. Her pare tone could be AA black or calorie-free honey, information technology'south hard to tell. With Seduisante Elyse coming this month to W Club members, information technology volition be a boxing of dark skinned Elyses!

Photos courtesy of Internet-A-Porter

Mel Odom & Jason Wu: Calendar Shot Factor

May 20, 2007

This is one of the 2007 drove of Genes. She is catalogued as dressed doll but with the bathing suit she really is a basic, the brunette i (the other ii basics being Rouge, a raven haired lady in red undies, and Swim-Suited To A T, a blond in a bathing suit).
Agenda Shot Factor has a characteristic that separates her non only from the remainder of the dolls in 2007's line but also from all other Genes before her: she has a tan! Her pare tone, instead of the creamy porcelain white of all Genes, is at present caramel colored! Take a look:

Information technology makes her wait like Hedy Lamar, or any of the Hollywood stars with fake tans pretending to be exotic women in far away places. She likewise looks a bit similar the young Joan Collins in the 50s in Hollywood.
Calendar Shot Factor (the name derives from her storyline, supposedly posing for a pivot upward flick in a agenda for the military), comes dressed in a bubbly gingham bathing suit. This costume is inspired by Claire McCardell's designs. Information technology has a bubble shape when worn without the patent leather corset belt.

Her accessories are more than enough for a basic doll: a lovely monogrammed beach towel, a pair of pearl stud earrings, a pearl bracelet, patent leather wedge mules (to match the patent leather belt), which have fabric insteps, and a black knit snood for her pilus, tied with a blackness satin ribbon. When she arrived, I thought she would look lovely with the Gene director's chair and the Hot Twenty-four hours In Hollywood accessory set. And of course she does:

Hither are some close up shots of her shoes and belt:

She has cleaved new ground in the Gene world and information technology is only a matter of fourth dimension to see what Mel Odom and Jason Wu make of her in this new peel color - many possibilities emerge. She is a express edition of 800 pieces. Mine was a prize from a Cistron Club competition and is i of the samples, according to her document of authenticity. She'southward lovely.