Darian Darling has made Barbie World her reality.
, 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 technicolour 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 beingDarling’s fascination with the toy began when she got her first Barbie on Christmas Day in 1985, when she was five.
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 enamoured 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.
At this point, she had already turned her New York home into a kind of DreamHouse, resplendent with pink walls, couches, bedding, pillows, candles, and accented by pop art images of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn. “It went sort of semi,-quasi-viral, as much as something could go in 2010,” Darling says. Barbie would be proud of her unbridled femininity.
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