#robert best

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Barbie Sketches by Robert Best 💖

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Four Strongmen at the gym Eddie Hall, UK, IG: eddiehallwsm Nick Best, USA, IG: nickbeststrongman Robert Oberst, USA: IG: robertoberst, IG: teamoberst Brian Shaw, USA: IG: shawstrength

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The Couture Collection (another strong contender for a Barbie collectibles set which means nothing to my ears because it uses the same keywords as at least five other Barbie collectibles) was a series designed by Robert Best themed around different formalwear fabrics.

The series commenced in 1996 with Portrait in Taffeta Barbie, a doll which does not particularly excite me. Taffeta is my least favourite formalwear fabric (which I'm sure isn't a widely held opinion; not because I think other people like taffeta, but because I assume most people don't have opinions about it). The Barbie design does little to win me over from my dislike of taffeta. I find she's a little dull.

Her followup, 1997's Serenade in Satin, is slightly more pleasant to me: I think the blue colour scheme is a little nicer, satin is a nicer fabric, and I like the cut of her coat better.

Actually, my mother once placed highly in a fashion event with a gown and coat that I am now realising looked a lot like Serenade in Satin - not plagiarism "a lot like", but I can see the resemblance. My mother was even a Barbie doll collector, but she never owned a Serenade in Satin. I wonder if she knew of it.

And finally we had Symphony in Chiffon.

She does look at least 25% Disney Princess, but I dig it. I like how she looks the most visually distinct. I think I like the design, altogether, the most. But... it loses significant points for how little it actually features chiffon. It is NAMED chiffon, but I would not have picked that as the theme of this Barbie if I hadn't known.

A brief moment as well to acknowledge the box designs for these dolls which I don't rate particularly highly either.

This tells me nothing about what to expect. 2/10.

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barbie illustrations by robert best

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robert best barbie illustrations

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Barbie The Pink Collection (2021)

[redhatmeg]

Day before I will be able to watch the newest Best Medicine episode (this time with Martin Cluny as the father of doctor Best) I keep on thinking about Doc Martin episode where we meet Mr. and Mrs. Ellingham.

This is probably one of the more poignient episodes in the show. On the one hand you have this contrast between Martin's parents - both Margaret and Christopher are despicable people but they show their assholish sides in different ways. While Christopher tries to be chummy and friendly, but it's clear he's up to something and at some point he shows disdain for Martin's career choices, Margaret is cold and distant up until she goes into full blown rant about how her son's birth ruined her marriage and sex life.

But there is also the scene soon after this rant when Roger - someone who became one of first Martin Ellingham's friends in Portwenn (he certain understood doc Martin better than most people) - happily announces that his partner is pregnant and he talks about how birth of a baby is a joyous occasion. And both Martin and the viewer are left with this heartbreaking dissonance.

Before this episode we learn that Christohper threatened to not bring baby Martin to Joan if she won't stop seeing her lover; and that he wanted his son to go to the Navy (this was probably before it was revealed that Ellingham Sr was a doctor too).

And after this episode we've had Margaret coming to his son once more, trying to butter him up, because "We are family, Martin." yada, yada. And then when he refused to fall for her manipulations, she stole his clock.

We were shown, time and time again, how their emotionally neglectful parenting impacted Martin's social development and made him worried about what kind of father he himself will be (he was great, if you ask me; from the very beginning he was very involved in baby James's upringing).

And that's why I keep on saying that I want to see Best Medicine's version of Ellingham parents. I remember this episode and I want to see how the US will do it. Especially because we have hints about some disagreement between Aunt Sarah and her brother that caused her to not see her nephew as much as she wished; and because we've established that Martin Best has a childhood trauma brought by the death of his sister.

Also the episode description didn't mention Mrs. Best in any capacity. So who knows, she might be dead/divorced.

Anyway, I'm nervous.