Ok, just who is this person? Who is the customer for this collection? There are some lovely bits here, but all so spun into fluffy clouds of sugar that they scream anime Goldilocks. 
Does Madame Alexander have a corporate staff uniform? 
Twee.
Twee-er.
Twee-est.
This is like career day at Lollipop land.
Here are my favorites:
Just add 12 inches, please.
I solve tiny little pretty crimes! Involving missing teddy bears.
Take me seriously damn it, I’m a Nobel Laureate.
Yes, I am jealous. I want all of these shoes!
I’m a velveteen corporate shark in my Red Valentino! 
As a gal who has made doll clothes alot, I am seeing someone familiar here.
photo credits: Vogue Australia. All images remain the property of their original owners.
Pretty Grievances 
The coats are quite fabulous but everything is too short & cutsie
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The trenchy topped one is very wearable but even that is too-too! Pretty stuff tho.
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There is one what is very much a Papercut Patterns Watson jacket.
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What. the. halibut? My computer is positively dripping from all the sugary sweet whatever the heck that was…! Best comment: “Does Madame Alexander have a corporate uniform”…Perfectly describes this collection! I’ve definitely seen these on dolls before – the toy kind!
Some bits have possibilities, but frankly, the whole thing is so kewpie doll looking, I just don’t have the energy or the inclination to sort through the mess!
Until next time, Valentino…perhaps you’ll redeem yourself!
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BTW…I swear I’ve seen that first outfit covering a toaster somewhere…!
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many a classy roll of toilet paper has graced such an ensemble!
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I do like some of the capes/coats- but I don’t get the coat and short shorts look. It may look interesting proportionally- but it’s not a wearable combo.
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Things are just a little off-kilter for me- no balance.
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I’m sugar rushing, this is so sweet.
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What is the point of wearing the cape with deep pockets to warm your hands when your va-jay-jay is so close to being exposed and frozen? Grown up Heidi fashions even Shirley temple could wear…how nice…guess we all will be wearing sheer knee socks this winter….cozy? The shoes are the saving grace…my teeth hurt from all this sweetness!
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Lmao!
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And me. Almost snorted my drink laughing (too much info?)
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Surely Valentino can’t be trying to save fabric by making everything too short? Or are the models extra tall?? Draughty springs to mind!!
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I can’t think that this is THE Valentino, but it is well made at least.
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I’m not going to lie, I actually really liked a few of these (mainly the longer dresses and coats). But the styling/back drop was awful. Maybe I’m just too cutsie too…
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I was really drawn in by the little details, the fabric, the PRETTY but it is too off scale for me.
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But you have to love those hose/socks though.
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No I don’t!
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So now when the tops of my knee-hi hosiery peek out from beneath my skirts, it’s no longer frumpy, it’s haute couture!
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and so sweet!
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This all makes me want to break out in song. “The Good Ship Lollipop” maybe?
Love the fabrics, love much of the outerwear, heck I even love the cute fairy land back
drops, just not for a fashion collection for anyone over 10. Then I remember, I am 55 and haven’t played with dolls for quite some time.
I will admit that sometimes I pet all of the horses in my Breyer collection, but that’s it! 🙂
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Maybe if they just didn’t pose like little twee hummingbirds!?
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These are for a Russian oligarch’s twelve year old daughter! I agree odd pieces are great – still no real woman could wear them imho! The velvet trouser suit and shoes being the only redeeming features. Is that her legs or two threads hanging down? model picked to look like a raggy doll, all long legs and tiny torso! What next for high fashion’s depiction of women? Why have a woman at all, why not a sucession of automated broom handles sasaying down the catwalk! I’ve read this back sounds like a rant but I am falling out of love with fashion, now where is my comfy drindl and birkies!
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I’d like to see these models without their little lip stylings and odd posings and see if they look like normal people in a pair of jeans.Its so stylized it makes me wonder…
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…absolutely, the girl is perfectly lovely naturally, it’s the styling. I normally so love Valentino.
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There are aspects of each outfit that are interesting,but I don’t understand the message that they were trying to portray. That back drop with giant mushrooms, dancing gingerbread men and squirrels, at least I think they are squirrels, having a tea party. Maybe it’s a reference to some kind of a trip?!! You know, one of those psychedelic trips 🙂
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One thing I like about style.com- the last pic is usually of the designer and that tells a tale in itself. I want to see the mind that created this-
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I didn’t think that I could accurately critique these, so I had my almost 13 year old review them for me. She loved looks 4, 5, 9, and 11 with 9 being her favorite. Looks 1 and 10 elicited an ‘EWWWW’ and look 2 was just OK.
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I love that you did this!!!!
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Aren’t these the costumes from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? If not, they should be.
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Veruca Salt couture!
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I guess I’m the odd one out here but I’m used to that. And I guess I’m not a “real woman”; I’m a 55 year old little girl. I can live with that. I love these, except for the length. (and the coat and shorts, WTF?, and the cape) Add 12 inches (at least) and I’d love to have every one of the dresses and that last pants suit, the pants of which could also use a few more inches.
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Actually the cape is okay too. Just put some long pants underneath it.
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This is why I need you here- we all have to see different takes on this and now I happily picture you in a rose festooned capelet solving crimes and pouting!
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LOL. I’m having a hard time picturing myself solving crimes and pouting. Maybe sitting elegantly and sipping a cup of tea while watching NCIS:LA?
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Elegant sipping is also a good look!
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Twee. Twee-er. Twee-est. So good to know that you’re grammar is up to snuff, because there ain’t nothing here that’s worth the $$$ except the shoes. And I’ll take one of each pair, please!! 🙂 BTW, my 14 yr old wouldn’t want to wear any of these outfits, never mind my 9 year old.
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I think there is a brief age or city in Japan for all of these styles….
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So sad – what a waste of fabric 😦
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Again, why don’t they just box it and send it all to me if they wants to see it used oddly?
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I agree. You would make much better use of all that fabric than they did.
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Excellent- please sign the attached petition!
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such pretty details but it’s the knee socks that I can’t get over. eek.
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I feel constricted just seeing the kneehighs.
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I think they’re all very pretty, but they certainly seem targeted to a very young clientele! The irony is that most people young enough to wear those are not old enough to afford them.
Still, at least they’re not ugly. That makes a nice change from many designer collections.
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do they feel a little fetishy, or is it just me?
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Wow, I actually really like most of these outfits! But you’re right- add 12+ inches, please! That green plaid coat- *swooooooooon*. The shoes were adorbs, most of the dresses were super cute, and I loved the backdrop. Best yet, for me!
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I just know that these would not scale up well for me- I’d look like Fred Flintstones milkmaid.
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You say that like it’s a bad thing!
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Im sure there is a pervy google search for it!
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Well, the shoes are nice? And I actually do kind of want the jackets. And maybe a couple of the capes (minus the roses). But yes, definitely a bit too “Blythe Doll” for me.
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Blythe!!! Thats perfect-
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Excepting the shortie-shorts, I actually really like this stuff! Maybe not the furry collars. But the plaids and the pleats–adorable!
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Its too short, it’s too twee, it is so close but not. It is just not the porridge that Goldilocks ate- it is not just right.
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That tiered dress bugs the hell out of me. How are you supposed to move in that thing? and why is everything so saccharine?!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/CurvyTiffy
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The tiered dress is some form of Scandinavian christmas tree skirt her nana made.
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Don’t get it and don’t like it but I LOVE the comments about it! Lmao! Looking forward to next next weeks’ installment!
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Do you know it’s almost the 100th Wearable Wednesday? You are all troopers to put up with this weekly foolishness!
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Dolls for sure, but I do like the velvet suit. I can picture it for a New Year’s Eve party. 😉
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My mother never noticed my pants were too short- I can’t revisit that, but I love the jacket.
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Squeee!!!!!!!!!!! I love all of these outfits!! Yes, they are intensely sugary cuteness and the skirts are dangerously short, but they just have such a strange mix of sophisticated charm and little girl loveliness.
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I think Kitty just wants you to have these so velvet roses can be gnawed on and batted!
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Yes, true. Especially if they were ACTUALLY made out of sugar.
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I like Kittys thinking!
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I’ll admit it, I really like about half the pieces here. No, I wouldn’t wear them that short but the plaid dress with the black organza overlay has possiblities as do the suits. At least I can use these ideas as a jumping off point, unlike the last few collections you’ve highlighted that have sent me into the depths of my pattern collection looking for pretties.
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I was sucked in by the pretty and saddened by the impracticality of it- but it is such inspiration this time.
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Folkloric meets anime as worn by an eleven year old … The shoes are the best part, as you said. I want the tan boots and the green bow tie heels!
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I want to see her giant gingerbread piazza-
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I love the green plaid coat, but most of the rest of this collection is straight out of a strawberry shortcake cartoon…and that wouldn’t be a good look for me.
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Me neither- but again, lets have the designer send us some fabrics!
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Like them all with #1 being the exception. The extra 12″ would make them wearable in the real world. Velvet jacket with rose and shoes with rose …sweet. Background..oh well…
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That trench one totally gets my vote. I wonder how that would look in animal print and lace….
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Put me in the I like the shoes category.
There are a few items that are ok, but the sheer knee-hi’s are killing me, reminds me of 3rd grade in the ’70s. Yuck.
Overall, I am reminded of Betsy Johnson’s stuff, which I really sort of dig.
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Betsey could take these designs out partying and see what we get!
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Everything’s too short, but some great colors and details in most of it. Not sure who wears a cape with hot pants, but I guess some people’s legs just don’t get cold.
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I think I remember an episode of the Partridge family were Keith dated a backup singer….
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I love these looks! I mean, they’re super twee, and I would look like a hipster jerk in them, but…. still kinda love ’em!
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We can go out on the town as 2 hipster jerks then!
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Perfect! I’ll bring the rolling papers for our cigarettes, and you bring the cool disdain that we’ll level at everyone we see!
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Excellent, I will start dog earing a Palanchuik novel for prop effect!
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Preferably one of his early works… since naturally we liked him before he was cool.
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Exactly!!!
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