Style Spotlight: Finds!
- Barbie as Gustav Klimt’s “Adele Bloch-Bauer I.”
Okay, it’s not handcrafted. It’s not one of a kind. It’s not even hard to find. But it was just too striking to pass up: the first release of the Barbie Collector Museum Collection, featuring a gorgeous representation of Gustav Klimt’s “Adele Bloch-Bauer I,” complete with the famous Viennese beauty’s golden dress and upswept hairdo. The original painting, now in New York’s Neue Galerie, sold for $135 million in 2006. The Barbie beauty is somewhat more affordable: she retails for around $40. Others in the collectible series were inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”—with an enigmatic half-smile on Barbie’s face—and by Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” reimagined as Barbie in a swirly cocktail dress
