My heart and my mind are in the midst of a fierce battle: to love or loathe the below YouTube video. My mind is in shock, my heart is in love. While they are duking it out, I will share today's news with you. A brand line of Barbie dolls called Fashionistas is set to invade the market. Besides sporting a fierce wardrobe, Fashionista Barbie sports some fierce dance moves too. She has flexible joints and can bend, twist and turn into one hundred different poses. Literally.
To celebrate this plastic fantastic feat, MTV Music Award nominated choreographer, JaQuel Knight has come on board. Even if the name isn't familiar, his handy work is. Knight is the talent behind Beyonce's 'Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)' music video. In the Barbie Fashionista video above, he's created a brand new dance 'The Barbie' and not only shows us how to do it, but enlists three "real life" Barbie girls to enact it for us. The sound track is none other than 1990's hit 'Barbie Girl.' Commercials featuring the signature dance start airing this fall, and you can buy the dolls for $20 starting in October. Are you buying? More to the point, are you doing "'The Barbie?'
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Zandile Blay is fashion editor for Paper magazine in New York City and a columnist for the Huffington Post. She recently earned her master's in fashion from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Read more on her daily blog, The Blay Report.




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By: ADMR on 8/28/2009 12:41PM
" Besides Sporting a Fierce Wardrobe, Fashionista Barbie has some FIERCE Dance Moves - she has flexible joints and can bend twist and turn into ONE hundred different poses "
THE GLAMOUROUS LIFE...
AMEN
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By: You can't be serious? on 8/28/2009 8:15PM
Are you serious? I can't stop laughing... The choreographer was funny as heck. Ain't nobody trying to do all of that silly nonsense on the dance floor.
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By: Lil'T on 8/30/2009 9:35PM
Wow, talented guy. not only is he the brains behind Beyonce's "Single Ladies" he's the co-brains behind Janet's "Rock with you", Diddy's "Come to me", and several other vids. so mad props to this young kat
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