The Lynnertic

Playing with Barbies at colette

I’m not surprised to find myself still on this topic. When I was a kid my elaborate Barbie fantasies spread across my whole room and took days to play out.

Super-haute fashion boutique colette in Paris, France plays like I do: their entire first floor has been realized as a larger-than-life Barbie shop for the month of March.

 
“Barbie celebrates her 50th birthday at colette,
March 9th-28th!

 

Barbie embodies glamour, fashion and femininity
for over 5 decades.

 

She naturally settles down at colette for her birthday,

 

where designers make theirs her environment.”

 

In the gallery, enjoy the “Barbie and Ken” exhibition
by Karl Lagerfeld.

There, I think I’ve got it out of my system. Want more Barbie? See Yahoo’s slideshow of the Real Malibu Beach House, and their March 9 party where (if you believe the pictures) maybe 6 people showed up. That’s not bad or anything, it’s about the attendance level of my Barbie events.

I hope more made it to Party Barbie colette last night. I wasn’t there, even in spirit, because it conflicted with the World of Noise radio show/chat party… it was a great one. If you missed it, write for access to the archives or get on Doug’s announcement mailing list.

“A plastic tan never fades” - Barbie.

Party Barbie colette at Régine, Paris, and Shara’s engagement at avec in Chicago

The Barbie Doll’s 50th birthday is being celebrated around the world!

Party Barbie colette

March 12th, 2009, at The Régine.

Come celebrate Barbie’s 50th anniversary at Régine this Thursday, March 12th, starting at 10pm, with Lady Bunny, Mister Rabbit, a live by Steed Lord, a warm-up by Olympia Le Tana & a dance performance by Dangerkat. The House of Dangerkat is a Canadian-based collective of arts professionals synthesizing fashion and styling with music and dance, further enhanced by video, photography and design. The House’s laissez-faire style of performance art has wowed the fashion, dance and music communities with their progressive approach to art making and rule breaking. Check out performances from Paris, New York and Canada at Dangerkat.

A very special thanks for providing champagne to Nicolas Feuillatte, for vodka to Girl By Necker and for lemonade by Lorina.

My friend Jason Williscroft saved me from getting too wrapped up in the trappings of this non-holiday by sending me the video of his evening at avec in Chicago last weekend, where he proposed to his girlfriend Shara with a self-described Barbie Diamond.** Congratulations to Jason and Shara! May you have a long and happy life together!

Collette - Ring My Bell

Collette Roberts is an Australian pop artist who performed as ‘Collette’ in the 1980’s and 90’s. She claims to have started the tshirt-over-lycra fad in Australia, which might be a bit of a stretch, if I may say so myself. Today, Collette is a model and make-up artist, and volunteers at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. She played out as recently as 2006.

Here’s the video of her 1989 hit single “Ring My Bell” from the album “Raze the Roof”

Collette made it to the cover of Smash Hits Magazine! From the exclusive Interview:

The impetus for "Ring My Bell" came about when our gal, a self confessed "club person" was out at various nightspots and happened to notice the great reaction that "Ring My Bell" got when the DJ played the original version… Collette decided that the song could do with being "brought up to date" and "modernized" and so went into a recording studio to lay down a demo of the song - took it to a record company and hey presto! she had a recording contract, made a single and became a star overnight!

… "I went into a newsagent to buy a lollipop - I really like lollipops - and I was just there to buy this 30c lollipop and then girl starts chucking a mental going "Oh my god it’s Collette". Here I am standing there with my lollipop and she’s going "What flavour would you like Collette?" and I’m going, "Oh, lime", and she’s going "We also have orange and raspberry!" and I’m going "No, I’ll just have lime thanks!


Did she give it to me free? Nah! I think she was too overwhelmed to ask for an autograph too!"

… "I think Collette does appeal to everyone," she insists. "It’s just me and it’s not too far away from me. Anyone can dress like me. A lot of girls out there can relate to me. I’m not wearing anything you can’t buy or copy. I’ve really begun to notice that almost every girl about eight is wearing bicycle pants and a t-shirt. It’s really funny!"