{"id":4790,"date":"2010-02-02T18:10:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2010-02-02T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:10:31","slug":"barbie-basics-black-label-collection-of-little-black-dresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/barbie-basics-black-label-collection-of-little-black-dresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbie Basics black label collection of little black dresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/designer-barbie-basics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/designer-barbie-basics.jpg\" alt=\"Barbie Basics black label collection of little black dresses\" title=\"designer-barbie-basics\" width=\"590\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4793\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/?tag=Barbie\">Barbie<\/a> is the luckiest girl in the world. Who else can say that they have a closet full of little black dresses (LBDs), designed just for them by 12 of the world&#8217;s top designers?<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the launch of Mattel&#8217;s new <strong>Barbie Basics doll<\/strong>, featuring twelve customized Barbies with varying hairstyles, skin tones and a basic LBD and accessories, the company also invited <strong>Council of Fashion Designers America<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/?tag=CFDA\">CFDA<\/a>) designers to customize twelve one-of-a-kind dresses for Barbie. Designers include <strong>Deborah Lloyd<\/strong> (<strong>Kate Spade<\/strong>), <strong>Isaac Mizrahi<\/strong>, <strong>Rachel Roy<\/strong>, <strong>Tory Burch<\/strong>, <strong>Alexis Bittar<\/strong>, <strong>Betsey Johnson<\/strong>, <strong>Devi Kroell<\/strong>, <strong>Justin Giunta<\/strong> (<strong>Subversive<\/strong>), and <strong>Monica Botkier<\/strong>. <em>Wouldn&#8217;t you just love to have a closet full of their stuff?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each designer is auctioning their doll on <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/auctioncausecharityauctions\/pages\/barbie-basics\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a> until February 7. Starting bid is $100 and net proceeds will go to the CFDA&#8217;s education program and scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>And tonight, I&#8217;ll be tweeting live from the first-ever Barbie tweet-up, where we&#8217;ll get to take a peek at these one-of-a-kind dolls. Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WhatsHaute\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>: we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WhatsHaute\" target=\"_blank\">@WhatsHaute<\/a>!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/barbie-basics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whatshaute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/barbie-basics.jpg\" alt=\"Barbie Basics black label collection of little black dresses\" title=\"barbie-basics\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4792\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BarbieStyle\" target=\"_blank\">@BarbieStyle<\/a> for more updates on the dolls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbie is the luckiest girl in the world. Who else can say that they have a closet full of little black dresses (LBDs), designed just for them by 12 of the world&#8217;s top designers? To celebrate the launch of Mattel&#8217;s new Barbie Basics doll, featuring twelve customized Barbies with varying hairstyles, skin tones and a [&hellip;]<a href=\"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/barbie-basics-black-label-collection-of-little-black-dresses\/\" title=\" Read More \u00bb &laquo;Barbie Basics black label collection of little black dresses&raquo;\" class=\"more-link\"> Read More \u00bb <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,929,403],"tags":[784,2369,3424,423,943,1206,3421,1379,854,3422,1650,3425,146,3423,169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4794,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/4794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/WhatsHaute.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}