Darian Darling a Los Angeles-based makeup artist has made Barbie World her reality. More on the two home she has transformed into facsimiles of Barbie’s DreamHouse:
, a Los Angeles-based makeup artist who has transformed not one but two homes into facsimiles of Barbie’s DreamHouse. This makes sense for Darling, with her platinum waves and penchant for technicolor tracksuits. She seems like a person who has escaped from Barbie World and found her way into Hollywood—only she’s very real, and not being directed by Greta Gerwig.
The thrill never went away. She started collecting when she was 14: It was 1994, the 35th anniversary of Barbie, and Mattel released a reproduction of the original doll—she with the rounded forehead and chevron black and white swimsuit. “I was just enamored by this vintage Barbie that was so elegant and classy and glamorous,” Darling says. The contemporary Barbies, on the other hand, “just got wackier and wackier and wackier and more heightened, more ridiculous.
The walls of most of the rooms are a rich mauve, including the built-in bookcase, which houses some of Darling’s collection . Two of the most notable artworks are life-size mannequins that Darling “rescued” from MAC in 2007, following the brand’s collaboration with Mattel. “I went to the SoHo store at Spring and Mercer and at 6:00 AM to go procure these giant, six-foot-tall Barbie mannequins,” Darling says.
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