From the product website:
Barbie Limited Edition
by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Big-eyed, blonde, and beautiful, Barbie took over the world in 1959 with little more than a white-and-black striped bathing suit and a pair of high heels. Today, Mattel sells three Barbies a second, and children in more than one hundred and fifty countries know her name.
Now, on her fiftieth anniversary as cultural icon, Assouline presents the ultimate collector’s volume on the world’s most popular doll. Encapsulating her history, chronicling her fashion, and imagining her life as a woman of mystery, glamour, and fun, Barbie presents this totemic figure as never seen before—in vivid dioramas of Barbie at work and play and in portraits of vintage dolls and accessories. A muse for children and adults, designers and artists, writers and cultural critics, Barbie remains a powerfully evocative and enigmatic reflection of our dreams, our hopes, and ourselves.
Assembled using the traditional anglaise technique and color-tipped by hand on art-quality paper, each page of this limited edition series bears the unique imprint of the artisan. The Assouline Ultimate Collection heralds a return to luxury, care, and mystique of a fine, hand-bound book.
The book is a limited edition and comes with FREE high quality Assouline Tote Bag. A 128 pages tome with 69 illustrations, cloth over board with linen presentation box:
The product website has a small sneak preview of the content. For easier viewing, I compiled them into one image. Note that copyright belongs to Assouline.
The New York Magazine also has a sneak preview and in higher quality. I just post my favourite:
Barbie decked in a white gold, diamond, and emerald serpent necklace designed by Boucheron. Sassy. Copyright Avrile.
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