Merry Christmas from Anouk!

 Anouk and I would like to thank all of you for your continued support.
We wish you all a very merry Christmas, and a happy new year!

The Anouk Atelier

Sun hats for Anouk's "Pique-nique" #0039 get their red ribbon ties sewn in

Production is now in full swing on Series 3 Anouk "En Vacances" The Sal Penney and Rosina Haskell are feverishly sewing away, and carefully producing beautifully detailed outfits for our pleasure! Here is a glimpse of what is going on:

Cherbourg #0037

Double stitching belts

Dresses get lined

Lovely double breasted coats take shape

Frissons de Moscou #0038

Lycée de Londres #0041

Vacances #0042

Cocktail #0046

Finally, the exquisite little accessories that will be part of series 3. A wine bottle and glass, sun glasses, purses, hats, pendants, binoculars, cameras, passports and more!

Influences on Anouk , Series 3

With Series 3 well into production, I thought I would give some glimpses into the things that have influenced the collection. There are some quintessential looks from the 60s, quite iconic. The outfits will range from formal, evening wear, cocktail dresses and casual, play wear. Sweaters, hats, socks, galmorous to casual, it will feature it all:

And here are my design sketches for the final collection. I'm sure you can see elements of all the images above. A nice wide range of outfits. The theme is Anouk " En Vacances" A high school French teenager, studying in London, on her summer holidays, travelling around Europe. Having fun sightseeing, boating and attending some of her first formal parties and nightclubs in exciting European capitals!

left: "Cherbourg" , and on the right "Frissons de Moscou"

left to right: "Pique-nique", "Helsinki", "Lycee a Londres", and "Vacances"

left to right:, "Berlin", "Rome", "Sortie", and "Cocktail"

Some dolls will be transitional dolls with a few outfits from series one and two. I have managed to source some exquisite little accessories for series 3 also.

Anouk hits Ebay!

So having sold out the 60 pre-orders dolls, plus dozens of private sales, the time has come to sell the last remaining Anouk dolls on Ebay. This will give her wider exposure, and also enable her to reach a broader market outside of her facebook group and my mailing list.

My seller ID is navsikand2bvj and I will start listing the dolls below on there tomorrow. The price will remain at $190 per doll, and I will of course still make direct sales for anybody interested. Just write me a mail at navsikand@aol.com.

Thanks to all of you for your continued support in helping make Anouk the great success she is today.
Stay tuned!

Anouk and Ernesto - A love story.

In the doll collecting world, there is one particular photographer, journalist, Svengali, whatever you may call him, that is at the top of his game. When your doll gets a photo shoot from him, you know she has arrived. His name is Ernesto Padros-Campos. Everything he does, from the styling, selection of outfits, accessories, backdrops is so on point that already beautiful dolls become otherworldly.

I am so proud to report that Anouk has been given Ernesto's gorgeous star treatment in a beautiful photo shoot and blog entry in his illustrious and prolific blog, Dolldom. Please do have a look at his wonderful write up and photos of Anouk. Total eye candy!

(copy and paste the following link into your browser to see ernesto's blog entry)

http://dolldom.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/anouk%20doll

Below are some of the photos included in the shoot. For any enquiries regarding Anouk please contact me at navsikand@aol.com

Anouk - Pre-Order madness!!!

So finally the factory have sent the pre- ordered dolls so I can get them out to all the patient clients who had ordered their Anouk dolls in advance. This is also my first opportunity to see the beautiful production dolls . I had a slight fear that the production dolls would not match the charm of the prototype sample dolls but they actually do. Each one has her own charming personality just as I had wished. The various skin tones and hair shades are exquisite and there are so many interesting variations, depending on what they are dressed in.

It took three solid days to style, dress, and assemble each package with the relevant accessories, booklets etc but it was finally done and all the dolls went out Thursday, Friday and Saturday (today) this week.
Shipping them out I realised how Anouk has gone Global :-) The packages went out to:

America
France
Italy
The Netherlands
Switzerland
Finland
Belgium
Germany
Australia
New Zealand

Including England that is 11 countries. I am a happy man indeed :-) :-) I will now of course, be on tenterhooks to hear from my clients! Watch this space!

First I checked off the outfits against the stock spreadsheets

Then I had to pack the accessories for each outfit

Then to style and dress the dolls themselves

Then packaging, booklets and labels

Capri, Printemps, Lingerie and Trotteur

Opera in both Gold and Silver versions

Capri, Lingerie, and Printemps

Trotteur dolls

Printemps

Capri girls

More ladies in Opera

A beautiful Titian sporting Anouk's short pageboy hairstyle.

#007 "Swim" dolls

Fianally packed them up in their shipping tubes, ready to fly to their new homes :-)