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No longer did she exist in her ample, octopus glory, but had instead been slimmed down.
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This comes on the heels of the Disney Villains Designer Collection of beauty products that hit stores in late June and unveiled the previous sea witch, Ursula from the Little Mermaid, in a nearly unrecognizable state. Sure, it’s clever to dress Daisy in dazzling designer duds, but is the Walt Disney Company’s main target market, not impressionable young children? With all this focus on transmuting these beloved characters into fashionistas, the larger symbolism of the danger of linking their lithe counterparts with the Disney name is lost. The drawings themselves were engineered by John Quinn, Disney’s own character art director. “When you see Goofy, Minnie, and Mickey they are runway models, ” explains Freedman. Daisy will be decked out in Dolce & Gabbana, Mickey backed by Balenciaga, Snow White by Nina Ricci, and Princess Tiana (minor props for including her) by Proenza Schouler, to name a few, all strutting their stuff down the runway.īarney’s creative director, Dennis Freedman explained that regular ‘ol Minnie was not in acceptable shape to take on the world of high fashion and would “not look so good in a Lanvin dress.” In an effort to “make it work” they opted to elongate her to the height of 5’11″ and hack off a quarter of her body. In the short 3-D film titled “Electric Holiday“, Minnie pursues her dream as a fashion model, visiting shows in Paris, wherein she encounters our cherished characters who will be donning designer apparel. The front runners? A truly Skinny Minnie, a drastically dieted-down Daisy Duck, hipster Goofy, and more irritatingly altered versions of the iconic clan.
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High-end retail department behemoth Barney’s New York announced its holiday collaboration with The Walt Disney Company, wherein our beloved characters get the “runway treatment” (Read: slimmed to scary proportions).