Tumbling down the old-skool fashion doll slope I somehow ended up here?
These tiny Integrity creatures are like potato chips. There are too many ways to collect. Are you a completionist? Do you like hunting down rarities? Are you a curated theme kind of person? You are? Uh oh.
I will confess right here that (luckily for me) about 75% of what I’ve seen from Fashion Royalty and the other Integrity doll lines does nothing for me. I find it all too pretty, too severely code-compliant. But then, something nutty happens.
Would you like a severe white European lady wearing Bergdorf Goodman, topped with a creepy black lace half-veil? An Indian gentleman in man bun, expedition jacket, and mary janes? How about a Tibetan martial arts guy wearing hakama and a splendid pleather jacket? No? Perhaps an astonishing Mexican trans model in micro-sequins with some of the best bone structure you have ever seen on a doll? Unfortunately, Integrity does all of this. Pricing will seem, not reasonable really, but in comparison to your standard ABJD, ominously within reach. The accessories are clever, the tiny 1/6 scale purses open, the shoes buckle.
And then there’s Kimono Go Go Poppy Parker.
I love this weird and cool girl with her highly pedigreed outfit, based on Rudi Gernreich’s indescribably peculiar kimono minidress of 1968.
