vendredi 28 mars 2014

Creative dolls

by Ksenia Gladysheva

by Ksenia Gladysheva
This outfit is close to my everyday life style, a baroque printed dress and my favourite vintage Lolita Lempicka  flower jacket. 

by Ksenia Gladysheva


by Ksenia Gladysheva

by Ksenia Gladysheva
Alice in wonderland 50's dress with dolls head bow. 
by Ksenia Gladysheva


by Ksenia Gladysheva


This adorable little girl was walking in the street and really wanted to take a picture with me, she said she loved my glitter shoes, I like when my outfit can create link with people and see the wonder in children eyes! 
by Ksenia Gladysheva
Dolls lace corset with dolls statue of liberty crown. 
by Ksenia Gladysheva

by Ksenia Gladysheva

by Ksenia Gladysheva
Barbie is wonderful medium to questions the status of femininity, as well as  social and political issues,  A great article about barbie subversive art which help me to understand WHY I am so fascinated by Barbie.

"The world’s most famous doll is celebrating her 55th birthday, this year Barbie debuted in 1959 and has since amassed a following like no other. It’s estimated that there are over 100,000 Barbie collectors in the world. “My whole philosophy of Barbie was that through the doll, the little girl could be anything she wanted to be. Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices,” creator Ruth Handler once said of the doll. Despite the best intentions, Mattel (and Barbie) has come under fire for promoting an unhealthy body image to young girls. Her impossible figure and perfect life have been a target for many artists who have subverted the Barbie norms to explore its absurdity and question feminine ideals."

The sickly sweet palette of Peihang Huang’s Barbie oil paintings take on a morbid tone once you realize that many of the dolls are battered and even dead (in the series Floral Funeral). Huang feels dolls are “the perfect figure to project human behaviors and philosophies.”



E.V. Day’s "Mummified Barbies" is an ongoing project, exploring western cultural ideas surrounding beauty and the often obsessive quest in contemporary society to preserve female beauty. Ironically, as Day mummifies or preserves the Barbies, their stereotypical beauty is concealed, and their iconic figure is transformed into something more playfully subversive. 



Dina Goldstein 
Dina Goldstein 


Conceptual photographer Dina Goldstein pulls back the curtain on the Barbie Dreamhouse. Her previous project, Fallen Princesses, placed iconic pop culture princesses in modern-day situations that found them facing poverty, cancer, and obesity. In the Dollhousealso toys with notions of femininity, revealing the struggles and complexities of romantic partnership.
Dina Goldstein 

Personalised necklace made for a woman with the things she likes playing guitar, music notes, seaside and French cock 

lovely feature on the dainty dolls house, lot of colours and creativity on this blog! 

dimanche 23 mars 2014

Primark, Mon amour

by Ksenia Gladysheva

I made this Primark paper dress for the event Primark on Acid organised by the theatre company Ferodo Bridges in New Oxofrd Street. 



As my friend Sue Kreitzman said "don't wear Beige it may kill you", but I tried to make something exiting inspired by origami. I spent time, experimenting, folding the bag in different directions,already I had already made a paper dress, and a paper jacket. It is a very interesting material to work with,  rigid and fragile at the same time. 


by Ksenia Gladysheva

"An abandoned office space opposite PRIMARK is re-appropriated into a hallucinatory installation hosting performance art, cabaret acts and music. The audiences are invited to grab a seat at the entrance of the space and find their place within the installation while eccentric performances pop-up unexpectedly around them." Ferodo Bridges 
The amazing performer Katerina Georgiou wearing my dress 


By Simona Zemaityte


By Simona Zemaityte

by Ksenia Gladysheva

The making of the dress tested the stubborn mentality  of the artist because when we went to the shop to ask  for bags, one of the manager said he couldn't give them away freely.  I wanted to give up, but Alexander came back and bought a lips gloss and asked for free 10 bags.  Then I came bag for buying eyelashes and got 10 more bags.  
On ne vous as jamais dit que vous étiez habillé comme un sac?  Je vais plus loin, je m'habille EN sacs. 

by Ksenia Gladysheva


I create this pleat skirt to keep the actual shape of the carry bags.  

by Ksenia Gladysheva

Primark is amazing for finding really cheap and good stuff.  But I liked to make something really crafty and handmade, nearly"couture" using a high street brand! 
by Ksenia Gladysheva

The dress featured on Primark official website!!! Read my interview here.  

mardi 18 mars 2014

Dolls kill



By Ksenia Gladysheva

The 4 life of a glitter dress: 
I love recycling stuff but I am also recycling myself. 
"you have so much stuff" It is because actually keep everything and I wear them differently along the years. 

I found this long-glittery-80's- salsa dance  dress on a flee market for 10 euros 5 years ago. 

By Ksenia Gladysheva

By Constance Doyle 

I wore it 4 years ago in the Concorde fountains for its"mermaid style" for picture with Constance Doyle  and the dress survive to the filthy water! 
By Constance Doyle 


For Portobello Carnival I cut the dress to make it short and add some feather at the bottom and on the sleeves.  

FYI photography 
Then, I took of the feathers to use if for another costume and I had the dolls face 

By Ksenia Gladysheva

Then, I took off the dolls, cut off the sleeves, added some pink fabric to create a cabaret halter dress. 
I like the idea of a garment always moving and evolving according your mood and your needs.  

Impossibly glamourous bingo 
Bingo at Restaurant 90 


Luxuriouxsnacks team 

Dolls face + barbie legs bow tie

To know when is the next bingo, like Bar 90 on facebook here 

Cult Moutain party, @Edge photography

Anka clothing 

I made this collaboration with Anka clothing, another designer exhibited at Cult Mountain. I love the mix of material, velvet and holographic fabric, Between the goth rock of the Cure and the Grunge of Curt Cobain. I felt this neo sea-punk style would be perfect to reveal the dark of creepy side of my jewels.  
Anka clothing 



Anka clothing

My glitter baby dolls  jacket
Model: Charlotte Carter

collaboration featured in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine

By Baneen Mirza

I like intercultural collaboration in art and design, and with Samar F. Zia a Pakistanis fine artist and M.U.A we decided to confront the standardised "American" barbie beauty with the oriental notion of beauty more based on rituals.  


The beautiful Eisha Jamil with my barbie necklace
By Baneen Mirza
The idea was to mix my barbie jewels with traditional Kashmiri clothes like Kurta. with its beautiful handmade embroideries.
By Baneen Mirza

By Baneen Mirza


By Baneen Mirza
By Baneen Mirza

By Baneen MirzaWith my white skin and my blond hair I am not really credible as a Kashmiri princess by Samar, as a great make up artist didn't try to make me more "oriental" by for example darkening my skin (which would have been bad taste) but simply by choosing the colours that would match the best with the garment.
By Baneen Mirza
Make up: Samar F. Zia/ info@samarfzia.com
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