Barbie Dolls Jewelry Designs By Margaux Lange

Margaux Lange, the New York-born jewelry designer revives the plastic doll and everything that incorporates it, and her psychedelic creations make every girl’s Barbie dream to come true. Being a Barbie nostalgic or not, her designs will make you want to dig out from your dusty shelves and boxes your beloved toy and play with it again and again. Barbie’s body parts like hands, ears, breasts, eyes, mouths and much more are part of the Plastic Body Series, which the designer launched nearly ten years ago.
A childhood obsession and a special relationship with the doll have prompted Margaux Lange to use the plastic princess in her art of jewelry design. To her, Barbie dolls played a pivotal role in her childhood development as a tool for acting out and exploring the human relationships in her own life, as well as the fantasy lives, which she imagined. The most interesting part is that Margaux Lange, uses only second hand dolls and accessories from donations, garage sales, thrift stores and of course eBay. It is important to her conceptually that the Barbies are already used and played with in the hands of a child. Thousands of Barbies in her studio integrate the dreams and secrets of the children who donated their dolls. It this way, each one of her designs, is part of a child’s story and life. It’s an inseparable part of their tender youth: