A Living Doll

Oh. Joy.

Now every four-year-old girl’s dream can come true: she and her poor, brow-beaten Mommy can dress just like that icon of chic and sophistication, that lady of a certain age, Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Yes, it’s Barbie’s 50th birthday and to celebrate, like many another rich woman at midlife, she’s decided to turn designer, although with what the harsher among us might judge to be perhaps less success than, say, Carolina Herrera.

From the Guardian (and one can hardly wait to hear what their resident fashion harpy thinks of the collection):

The 50th birthday of Barbie, the iconic fashion doll, is to be celebrated next year with the launch of a designer clothing brand for humans, complete with a cosmetics range and a catwalk show at New York fashion week…

Wang is creating a wedding gown for the special birthday collection – one version for real women and a mini-version for Barbie – while Scott has designed a high-end capsule wardrobe.

I don’t know about you, but if I woke up and found I had a wardrobe comparable to Barbie’s, I’d need a few capsules of something, for sure.