Limited Edition Beastie Boys Action Figures Benefit Charity

The Beastie Boys recent music video for Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (shown below) features action figures of the rapping trio. Now, you can purchase the 11.5" tall poseable Beastie Boys Action Figures, complete with clothes and accessories in a 16" x 12" metal box.







To celebrate summer and renaissance all up across this fair piece, as well as the release of the video for Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win, a select few sets of B-Boys action figures available for purchase ($750 for the set).









Produced by Nowhere Ltd. / Bathing Ape, these are some real limited edition, explicit, bottle service/ v.i.p. type items. And no, they are not trying to take you for all your Mozarell.



The proceeds will be split between Pablove Foundation and Alex's Lemonade Stand, two very worthwhile charitable organizations that work with kids with cancer:









The Action Figures are packaged in a 16x12" metal box:





The box contains:

3 Action Figures (1 MCA, 1 Mike D, 1 Ad Rock - each 11.5" tall)

Action Figures come dressed in button down shirts, pants, and shoes

3 Doll Stands

3 White Jump Suits

3 Safety Goggles

3 pairs of Work Boots

3 Safety Vests

3 Belts

3 Japanese Decal Stickers

3 Extra Hand Attachments



As a special bonus with purchase they're throwing in the 2-disc deluxe version of the Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science, featuring an 88 page full-color 11.3x11.3" book with photos and lyrics, while supplies last.



Buy them here

KISS Footballers & Other Custom Kickers For Foosball Tables

I'm not sure whether or not the rock group KISS are big soccer players - or even foosball (table football) fans, but I came across these hilarious custom 'footballers' on Vinçon, the design store in Spain. Each is made of aluminum and hand painted and costs around 42 euros a piece.

In addition to Gene Simmons, Ace Freeley, Paul Stanley and Peter Criss as possible goalies, center forwards, wings, or whatever position you please, they sell many others. Gigolos, business men, punks, glamour gals, even a dominatrix can replace your boring little men on your foosball (or football) tables.


Buy the fun little footballers here.


Foosball Fan?


Here's a collection of really cool foosball tables from Bonzini and Teckell.

•And be sure to see the special and stunning tables from Eleven Forty:

Opus, the Beautiful Game and the Good Vs. Evil limited edition tables here.

MAD MEN Barbie Doll Diorama From Haute Doll

Much to the glee of advertising folk and doll collectors, todays' New York Times announced the fact that Mattel is soon coming out with MAD MEN Barbie dolls.

The dolls, fashioned after the cast of AMC's MAD MEN, are expected to retail for $75.00 each and a limited number of less than 10,000 dolls of each are to be produced.



above photo courtesy of New York Times



In honor of the release of the upcoming dolls, Haute Doll has created their own versions in an upcoming diorama for the magazine.

I happen to be acquainted with the fabulous photographer, Michael Williams, about who's Barbie Jonathan Adler diorama's I blogged about before.
So, I have a sneak peek at the first images of their own MAD MEN Dolls for you.





This month, for the March/April issue of HauteDoll, Michael collaborated with some One-Of-A-Kind doll artists to create our own custom MAD MEN dolls, wearing fashions directly from the TV show, along with an amazingly detailed miniature diorama of Don Draper's office (COMPLETE with cocktails and cigarettes).


above: I love the mini story boards and the Lucky Strike Cigarettes!



Diorama by Carloyn Allen
Fashions by Natalia Sheppard
Barbie repaints by Vin Trapani
Photos by Michael Williams

Viktor & Rolf's Barbican Exhibit With Side By Side Comparisons of the Dolls & Fashions With The Runway Models

Welcome to the dollhouse. Viktor & Rolf's Dollhouse, that is. Dutch fashion design duo Viktor & Rolf, whose runway shows have become increasingly imaginative over the years, employing everything from models wearing their own lighting and scaffolding to soot darkened faces and bodies, are showcasing some of their best and most interesting designs in a uniquely Viktor & Rolf sort of way.




Having constructed a large dollhouse in whose rooms stand porcelain dolls (each doll approximately 2 feet tall) clad in their most memorable creations from the past fifteen years, Viktor & Rolf once again immortalize themselves in fashion history.




This summer an exhibition at the Barbican Art gallery in the UK put the duo's fashions on porcelain dolls in a giant dollhouse as well as on runways with films of past runway shows playing in the background. The fashions and dolls are arranged by collection within the rooms. About fifty 19th century dolls showcase some of their most memorable creations since all the way back to 1993, taking over the entire gallery.

The House of Viktor & Rolf: Dutch fashion design arrives at the Barbican
18 June 2008 - 21 September 2008, Barbican Art Gallery




I have laboriously and painstakingly found the actual full size fashions from their past runway shows since 1993 -- as well as almost all of the dolls from the Barbican exhibit -- and am putting them side by side for you to see for yourselves.


As shown above, even the hair and make-up on the bisque dolls replicate the look of the models and outfits.














































The head of each doll is made by a Belgian expert who fires bisque faces traditionally and they are stunningly rendered with hand painted make up and hairstyles to match the models:




And if you thought having the outfit smaller makes it easier to make, you are mistaken; each dress reportedly took double the time a full-size one takes to make.


Above: Drawing on the Dutch tradition of silver plating a baby’s first shoe as a keepsake, the climax of Viktor & Rolf’s Autumn/Winter collection of 2006–07, was a strapless wedding dress with a wide petticoated knee length skirt, silver plated, including even the bride’s bouquet.


The Book / Publication:

Above: A 256 page hardback book, the most comprehensive on the work of Viktor & Rolf to date, including 400 fashion photographers, catwalk images and exclusive illustrations and polaroids, is available. Text by Caroline Evans and Susannah Frankel. Designed by FUEL. Published by Merrell in association with Barbican Art Gallery.

Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

More great stuff from Viktor & Rolf:
Their upside down store in Milan:
Their wild 'word' fashions

image sources: Viktor & Rolf, Wallpaper.com, Elle UK, Style.com, Barbican Gallery and photographers Marcio Madeira and Douglas Lydon