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Giampaolo Sgura x Vogue Paris Panoplies

Giampaolo Sgura x Vogue Paris Panoplies

No doubt about it: 2014 is the year of Barbie.

Everything starts with Jeremy Scott for Moschino, continued with Wildfox winter lookbook, then the artist Nickolay Lamm has created an imperfect version, with cellulite and pimples and, in the end, she, the most famous doll in the world has landed on Instagram.

Now the models Magdalena Frackowiak and Elisabeth Erm become the iconic Mattel toy in "Panoplies", beautiful editorial for December's number of Vogue Paris.

Immortalized by photographer Giampaolo Sgura, the two girls turn into perfect copies, dolls in the flesh enclosed in a box, dressed from 12 designers such as Dior, Chanel and Saint Laurent Paris, Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren, Valentino.

There is Elisabeth-Saint Laurent with a look inspired by Ziggy Stardust, with silver boots, rollerblades, guitar, amplifier and disco ball.

There is Magdalena-Gucci, the rider, with whip, awards and reins.

And then there's the hostess, the tennis player, the globetrotter, the Parisienne, the cheerleader, the romantic, ...

Reproduction is manic.

Each outfit, designed by Claire Dhelens and Celia Azoulay, is studied in detail.

Each box, recreates a spring-summer collection 2015 proposes a world: bag, shoes, jewelry, accessories.

Sgura manufactures small jewelry visual, havens that every litle girl would like holding in your hands.