Editorial
This design needed time to take root, as often. The whole story
began one day, in November 1967, with a present, all tenderness.
It was pink, vaporous and extremely delicate. With the patience of
an angel, my mother had secretly knitted a dressing gown and tiny
bootees for my Barbie. It seems to me there were more clothes, but
these bootees, with their little pink knots on top totally fascinated
me.
Then I grew up. The doll vanished, but I kept in mind the elegance
and grace of my Barbie as well as a little bootee deep down my secret
box.
One day, the idea of extending the happy part of my childhood
through pictures I love took shape. Barbie is often criticized for
being too blonde, too superficial, too skinny, too “ideal marketing”,
too “this” and too “that”…. My aim was to adjust this so famous profile
to different emblematic representations.
Here’s my personal contribution as a birthday present to my
mascot, Barbie, superimposed on the vision of artists whose work I
greatly appreciate.
Let me thank them all for creating such intense pictures.
Many thanks to Ruth Handler for creating this dolly model that enraptured me throughout my childhood.
Jocelyne Grivaud
