Limited edition dollies seem to be all the rage these days. And Barbie leads the pack, being sought after by the hottest designers.

This limited edition Barbie forms part of the Barbie Collector Platinum Label Collection, and comes in a new box featuring the Jingle Flowers print.

The Comme des Garçons’ Barbie doll is dressed in a sleeveless silk-lined floral dress in the Jingle Flowers photo-style printed graphic which already sold out in Tokyo last week. More are arriving to all other CdG stores including Dover Street Market. The Jingle Flowers Barbie goes on sale for £225.

Just don’t give it to your little sister for Christmas.

via: Dazed

Dover Street Market has launched a new Extra Small store concept for the holiday season. This pop up shop consists of the edited highlights of DSM, products include Comme des Garçons Shirt, Dover Street Market label, Comme des Garçons’ perfume, Wallet and PLAY collections, and an everchanging selection of jewellery and accessories, all perfect for Christmas gifts.

Where:
Reload@St Martins Lane
45 St Martin’s Lane
London WC2N 4HX

Nearest Tube:
Leicester Square (Northern & Piccadilly)

When:
Friday 6th November until 7 January 2010.

Opening Times:
Daily from 12pm to 10pm

via: ES

I thought the song was ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ – not ‘Apple Orchards a-plenty’
via: WWD

For Rei Kawakubo’s hotly anticipated collaboration with The Beatles, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. LITERALLY.

I was flabbergasted. Just seeing this bag makes me go ‘wot?’ – and not in a ‘WOW, it’s so edgy’ – more like ….lolwot??

And the blogs a plenty are buzzing about it, are not wowed by it. In fact ‘nonplussed’ is the adjective of choice.

To sum it up – I’ve picked a choice snippet from Racked:

“Rei Kawakubo had access to all Beatles iconography, photos and logos, and she didn’t want to make “any unnecessary items that may in time come to resemble a Beatles souvenir shop.” So she took the Apple Corps. logo and put it alongside her signature polka dots to make “strong, conceptual” items that resemble a Beatles souvenir shop.

The line includes 10 bags, five T-shirts and four shirts, and none of those items are cheap. The T-shirts are $115 and it goes on up to $860 for the most expensive of the bags, which are made “in Japan of embossed polyurethane or printed PVC and detailed with metal grommets, embossing and cords.” Yes, you read that right, they’re charging $860 for a PVC bag with pieces of flair. Seriously? WWD reports that the no-leather rule was a stipulation of the deal, and per Sir Paul McCartney, none of the bags were made with leather (they’re embossed polyurethane or printed PVC).

So if they were selling PVC bags for PVC-bag prices you wouldn’t hear a peep out of us. But there’s no moral compass, popular rock band or designer label in the world that would make us OK with dropping nearly a grand on a polyurethane bag with studs on it.”

The Beatles/CDG collab will be available in Tokyo on November 20 at the Trading Museum, a CDG concept store. Adrian Joffe, the CEO of CDG, told WWD that the brand plans to roll the line out to international stores very slowly, even adding new styles.

My only response to this is……….wot?

via: WWD, The Thread, Racked

Dover Street Market
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via:High Snobiety