As a toddler, I used to construct worlds for my Barbies. I’d spend limitless hours with my sister, Religion, crafting intricate realms, stitching tiny clothes from vibrant materials, and fashioning furnishings from corks, toothpicks, and bottle caps! Early experiences like these launched me to the magic of design and impressed me to grow to be a designer and artist. So you may think about how excited I used to be when @BarbieStyle reached out about what seemed like a dream collab: Jungalow designing a room in Barbie’s dreamhouse !!!
Picture courtesy of the superb Mattel group
We had our first name with the Mattel group (the kindest, most inventive bunch!) on a Friday and the next Monday we had been at their places of work perusing their classic Barbie furnishings archives, looking for our dreamhouse! I even obtained to convey Ida! It was unimaginable. The artistry and a focus to element that goes into constructing (or in some circumstances sourcing) all issues Barbie is de facto inspiring.
We obtained to select completely different doll heads, physique sorts, and CLOTHES – oh the garments!
So very cool to see all of the Barbie doll heads! Their hair and make up is at all times on level!
How enjoyable is that this wardrobe choice?! We couldn’t cease oohing and awwing after we had been making our selects. Too enjoyable!
Aimee from group Jungalow (left) discovered some Barbie pants we want in our measurement! And Jungalow’s very personal Piper (proper) having enjoyable enjoying Barbie’s stylist for a day!
After that, we headed again to the Jungalow studio and I began concepting. I gathered inspiration photographs and rendered a room that I may see Barbie and her pals having a celebration in. The superb Mattel group introduced my idea to life (the photograph on the very prime of this weblog submit is NOT photoshopped! It was truly constructed to Barbie scale–the material and textiles had been truly made with our prints, they usually even created teeny tiny variations of my books! ahhh!) and now I simply need to chill with Barbie there all day lengthy!
My hope was to create an area the place Barbie may embrace her individuality and be surrounded by a kaleidoscope of textures, hues, and plants. We recovered the classic furnishings, and upcycled and reinvented them, simply as Religion and I did as youngsters. However, this dreamhouse isn’t only a play house; it’s an invite for Barbie, her pals, and for all of us to nurture our personal creativity, have a good time our personal uniqueness, and revel within the magic and the enjoyable of unbridled self-expression.
Come on in, let’s play, create, and have a good time our internal wild baby on this jungalicious Barbie dreamhouse!
