Anouk's new vintage style Advertisment

 

 I wanted to do an advert like the ones we used to see in catalogues and kids magazines back in the 60s and 70s. It all adds to the vintage feel of Anouk. I love doing this type of work for Anouk as I feel it is so evocative of the time period that Anouk is inspired by. Furthermore this shows her play value and how she can be styled etc.

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 :-)

Whats in a name?

Genuine Anouk clothing will have these beautiful damask woven labels, which mirror the Anouk logo. I have had these commissioned by a great company here in the UK. As the old advertising campaigns for vintage dolls used to proclaim: "Do not accept imitations" So it is with Anouk and her mini couture ;-)

Anouk's clothing turned inside out to reveal the labels.

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Anouk gets some personal attention.

Beautiful Brunette Anouk heads await assembly at the factory

So we are almost there! The factory sent me these fascinating pics of Anouk being rooted, cut and styled. I love the way each doll gets pampered and the personal touch. There will be two hairstyles, one long and one short though I may do unique hairstyles on some dolls also.
 It has been a long drawn out process but this means that Anouk will be perfect. To all of the people that pre-ordered their Anouk dolls, I am very grateful for their patience and kindness. Not long now!

 Anouk will be releasing in June 2016. Sales will be directly with myself, but I may list some dolls on eBay also. There are only 300 production dolls and a good number have already been sold on pre-order.
For all sales enquiries please contact Nav at navsikand@aol.com