Séverineland's Ad in Fashion Doll Quarterly Magazine

Julian Stanislaw Kalinowksi decided to start 2016 with a bang by advertising his Séverine, Miss Sévinyl, and Bunty Lee's now aborted Rachel dolls in Patricia Henry's Fashion Doll Quarterly magazine. What a better way top profile this 21st century fashion dolls so imbued with the zeitgeist of the late 1960s?

Since these captivating ladies seem to have arrived via time-machine to lucky collectors the world over, a decision was taken to mimic page 25 from Sear's 1964 Wishbook Christmas catalog.



The stunning collage features Ruth Handler's iconic Barbie and her best friend Midge modeling elegant fashions designed by Charlotte Johnson and created by hand by many gifted seamstresses in Japan. A half-page image shows Barbie and Ken in their formal best.

Since Séverine, Miss Sévinyl, and Rachel (soon to be available as Solange) are hand painted and hand coiffed dolls that wear mostly one-off handmade couture, the association seemed natural. Dolldom's photographers and stylists went to work immediately once the special models arrived from England dressed in the very best hand made creations of Liz Cole for Retros, Rosina Haskell, Tania Lawrence, Sylvia Campbell, Juliet Whorton...even a vintage Franklin Lim-Liao! These are the resulting images:


Designer: Tania Lawrence


Designer: Tania Lawrence


Designer: Tania Lawrence


Designer: Tania Lawrence


Designer: Liz Cole for Retros


Designer: Rosina Haskell


Designer: Sylvia Campbell


Designer: Liz Cole for Retros


Designer: Juliet Whorton


Designer: Sylvia Campbell


Designer: Rosina Haskell


Designer: Tania Lawrence


Designer: Tania Lawrence


Designer: Tania Lawrence


Designer: Liz Cole for Retros


Designer: Liz Cole for Retros


Designer: Sylvia Campbell


Designer: Franklin Lim Liao


Designer: Rosina Haskell

The formal Barbie and Ken photo called for all out glamour.


Designer: Rosina Haskell

After a careful selection process headed by Mr. Kalinowski, the images were sent to graphic designer genius Fokke Hoekman in Berlin so that the final magical collage could be created and sent to Fashion Doll Quarterly. Make sure that you get a copy of Fashion Doll Quarterly magazine so that you may have printed version of the ad. Vive Séverine.

Lady Séverine Lambton-Peel

Lady Séverine Lambton-Peel has created quite a reputation for herself. Seen wandering through the woods of her country estate at dusk and dawn, Lady Sév is considered an eccentric. For what is not known is that Lady Séverine works undercover for Universal Mood Recovery, an organisation devoted to restoring a moderate standard of happiness and normal sleep patterns to the perturbed using the most advanced technology.

Who said philanthropy was dead?







Lady Séverine Lambton-Peel helps humanity dressed by Rosina Haskell.

Upcoming Wonders

The next issue of Fashion Doll Quarterly, published by Patricia Henry, will feature an ad for Séverine, Miss Sévinyl, Solange, and Rachel inspired by this fabulous vintage catalogue wonder.....Make sure that you subscribe now in order to get that issue - the first one of 2016.

I'm Your Venus, I'm Your Fire, Your Desire

Behold the birth of Miss Sévinyl and Rachel!

Working Models

Working models model.
They model to seduce.
Your seduction is their aim.
"Take me home..." - they say.











Credits
Fashions by Liz Cole for Retros, Rosina Haskell, Tania Lawrence, Poppy Parker, Dangerousdames Lounge
Hair on some modesl by Pink Bubbles Spa
Photos by Dolldom Photography

Out of the Closet with Miss Sévinyl

Miss Sévinyl, Julian S. Kalinowski's creamy vinyl muse comes out of the closet on this first day of November 2015. 

With hairstyles designed by Bobby Taylor of Pink Bubbles Spa, Miss Sévinyl shows off her versatility as a fashion doll modeling two very different moods: a Cardin-ish mini and a Laura Ashley-like maxi.









The fashions were issued for the Poppy Parker doll by Integrity Toys and now live in Miss Sévinyl's closet. 

For more information of the fabulous hairstyles, contact
Vera at Pink Bubbles Doll Spa.

Voilà! Instant Asian Elegance!

Séverine by Julian S. Kalinowski is a universal beauty whose ability to metamorphose is the stuff of legend. A very special Séverine doll - green skinned and luscious as only she can be - proves the point perfeclty. Who is this attractive yet unsettling creature? Plutonian Séverine? Séverine d'Uranus? Queen of the Milky Way Séverine?

Whatever her true identity is, this very unique Séverine wanted something equally special to wear. And Je suis Séverine seizes the opportunity to pay tribute to dear Franklin Lim Liao who designed the stupendous fashion ten years ago to be modeled by a Silkstone Barbie doll in Barbie Bazaar magazine. Back then, Mr. Lim-Liao, fabulous and ever so creative, fashioned this two-piece cocktail set using a strip of vintage brocade. Upon completion, Mr. Lim-Liao was heard uttering: "Voilá, instant Asian elegance!"

Past and present come together in these photos. Je suis Séverine invites you to treasure the moment and those individuals who provide joy in your life. Here's to Franklin Lim-Liao! If he were still around, he would be smitten with you, Séverine!

Séance

Séverine has been invited to a séance. She dresses appropriately in a Retros burnt gold Lurex sheath in a most dignified length, black gloves, and a sober black headband. Since it's up for grabs as to whose spirit will materialize, Séverine decides to pile on the golden baubles.

In all, it's a winning look! Séverine is sure that once the séance table starts floating, the rooms' chairs are up in mid air, and every one else is scared to the core, she will be thrilled with her fashion choices.






Photos courtesy of ©Ernesto Padró-Campos/Dolldom Photography

Longing for You

Miss Sévinyl, the new vintage fashion doll by Julian S. Kalinowksi, offers a myriad emotions in this black and white portrait.

Miss Sévinyl



Photo courtesy of ©Ernesto Padró-Campos/Dolldom Photography

Miss Sévinyl

Because less is more...Miss Sévinyl!
Coming soon!



Photo courtesy of ©Ernesto Padró-Campos/Dolldom Photography

The Many Faces of Séverine

These are the faces of Séverine. Julian S. Kalinowski's muse du jour is every woman. These are some of the faces of the models featured in the current issue of Haute Doll magazine.













Although all are born from the same sculpt, Mr. Kalinowski's intention is to create many variations on a theme - the theme of Séverine. And so the doll transforms while retaining the essence of the character. "Séverine is an amalgam of actresses such as Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, and Brigitte Bardot while her name was chosen for its ties to the character Severin in Ritter von Leopold Sacher Masoch's Venus in Furs and also to Catherine Deneueve's character in Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour", Mr. Kalinowski explains while taking a break from painting feathery eyebrows on a ebony black Séverine doll. Based on Caprice, a French fashion doll manufactured by the company of the same name from 1964 to 1970, Séverine features legs lengthened by 2mm at the calf and 3mm at the thigh, a neck elongated by 2mm, a more detailed re-sculpting of the mouth area and a slight lengthening of the head. The first version of Séverine is made of heavy hard plastic, strung, and models viscose wigs set into a screwed-in scalp, just like Bild Lilli.

The second version, Sévinyl, is the natural progression of Séverine into a more accessible fashion and play doll.





Credits:
Retros by Liz Cole
Tania Lawrence Fashion for Dolls
Rosina Haskell

All photos © Ernesto Padró-Campos/Dolldom Photography