Exciting news from A Girl for All Time!
In a previous post we mentioned a new line of Modern Girls coming from this UK boutique line. Love Love Love these dolls.
The following images are exclusive to LADL from Swish and Swirl. Frances met up with bloggers at the London Toy Fair and Olga was there to capture a first look at the new dolls.
Maya,
Your Modern Girl ™ is in the blue coat. She is our modern day Marchmont
Girl and she and her friends will all make up the new contemporary range
that we are designing .
Maya is Matlda’s great-great-great …well, too many 'greats'
to count….. granddaughter and has inherited all of her
fearless spirit. She is a totally Modern Girl:
she loves skateboarding, playing soccer and singing.
But the Marchmont legacy still weighs on the girls of the Marchmont family and Maya is no exception…
to count….. granddaughter and has inherited all of her
fearless spirit. She is a totally Modern Girl:
she loves skateboarding, playing soccer and singing.
But the Marchmont legacy still weighs on the girls of the Marchmont family and Maya is no exception…
With her is Nisha, Your Modern Girl™ - she is Indian ( from India, not American native ) and Maya’s best friend .
Maya’s friend Nisha loves photography, vintage clothes …and playing the
guitar. They’re secretly starting to form a band even though their
families think it's a waste of time... but Nisha knows that Maya has
inherited a legacy from her Tudor ancestor and needs help... is Nisha brave enough ...?
The
great thing about stepping outside of a traditional Anglo Saxon family
tree is that now we have much more scope for ethnic and socio-economic
diversity.
This dolls are prototype, but very very close to what will be released.
I'm over the moon! The dolls will be part of kick starter campaign. A Girl for All Time is branching out and just over the past several months introduced pets, more accessories and Sam, Your 1960's Girl. I just saw the sneak peaks of the next historical doll Elinor, Your Elizabethan Girl on Doll Diaries. She's gorgeous!
I think Nisha is extremely lovely!! Looking forward to her debut.
ReplyDeletevery pretty dolls, was there any word if they will have books? I noticed the newest dolls don't have books. so glad they have a US store now so shipping isn't ridiculous, may consider getting one for my nieces, they have 2 AG dolls each so I was looking for something different.
ReplyDeleteYes the new dolls will have books. As stated these are prototypes, and A girl for all time we'll have a kick starter campaign.
DeleteWhat is the ETA on the start of the kick-starter campaign?
DeleteA Girl for All Time are working Now on the campaign and hope to have it published in another 2-3 weeks.
DeleteBeautiful! Nisha is by far my favorite (maybe my over all AGAT favorite), she is truly darling! Thank you for those pictures!
ReplyDeleteI love them both, but am particularly attracted to Nisha. Wonderful dolls and fashions!
ReplyDeleteI love Nisha! Her hair is so pretty, and I love the diversity. I may have to snatch her up when she's released!
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Maya is maybe a must have, but love that hooded coat! Cindy
ReplyDeleteOh Frances, I am in LOVE! They are both amazingly beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWow! Nisha is a must! I totally love her. I'm not fond of the color or pattern of the material, But I like the style. :) I'm very excited about the new dolls!
ReplyDeleteI love Nisha- great to see a modern girl of South Asian/Indian heritage to reflect the South Asia communities in the UK-I may get for my niece whose mother is Indian ! Great work Frances and A Girl for All time. Just a question is Maya Sam's daughter/Clementine's grand-daughter- she certainly has a look of Clementine!
ReplyDeleteI think you are off by 1 generation, my mom is about 8 years younger than Sam, and my oldest is about 5 years younger than Maya. Going by Maya being almost 13 in 2016. But maybe Sam just started a family later.
DeleteI think there would definitely need to be a generation in the middle. If Sam is a young girl in the mid-60s then she would have had to be born in the mid-50s, right? Whereas to be a young girl today Maya would have been born in the early aughts. Stretching the generation gap 50 years on a biological family tree seems pretty unlikely. My mom was born in 1953 and although she didn’t have me until she was 42, I was still born in 1994….not 2004. Sam and her daughter must have both had children fairly young, much like Clementine did. For instance, Sam has a child at 25 around 1980 and that daughter also has a child around 25 in 2005. Makes for an interesting doll possibility!! I highly doubt AGFAT is looking to create a 80s/90s doll at this time, but you can't deny it's a fun doll to imagine!
DeleteAlso I totally second your comments about Nisha. It was exactly what I was hoping for out of this line!! I think the family tree is a great spin that makes this line unique, but it definitely limits their ability to be diverse. When they released Nisha's name I had my fingers crossed this was what they had in mind and I'm so glad it's true!
Maya and Nisha = A Girl for All Time's answer to Truly Me.
ReplyDeleteUh oh. This can't be good. AG started a long downhill slide (in my opinion) as soon as Mattel bought Pleasant Company. Not to say that the newer stuff isn't wonderful (I am in love with Lea's rainforest hut) but the book and collection divergences--no longer Meet _____, _____ Learns A Lesson, _____'s Surprise, Happy Birthday, ______!, _____ Saves the Day, and Changes for _______ with corresponding items. And I am not impressed with Beforever on the whole. Rhonda mentioned in her 2015 Q&A video that AG seems to be moving slowly toward all modern (retiring most of the 19th century, only one doll in the 18th...) and keeping Beforever at just eight dolls, who seem to be from later and later time periods.
DeleteI'm not saying AGAT is going to follow this route, but I am concerned. My theory is that American Girl of Today was what attracted Mattel to the Pleasant Co. in the first place. I just hope there isn't a Mattel-like company in Britain, or AGAT's in trouble.
Sorry to take such a pessimistic tone. I guess I don't like " in with the new and out with the old".
I miss the old ways too and the book illustrations. However we all know profit determines any business move. I agree that BeForever isn't as great as I had hoped. At least Lea's collection isn't as costly as Grace's or even Isabelle's.
DeleteSo adorable - looking forward to their kick starter campaign ^_^!
ReplyDeleteWhat adorable dolls! Love Nisha!
ReplyDeleteOh, they're both so cute~! And part of me is hoping this sets us up for Maya's mum, an 80's girl ^-^
ReplyDeleteOmg i love MAYA!!But,I am also afraid of the bueatyful historic girls retiring,but i dont have any,so again,DOLL COLLECTOR PROBLEMBOS,woops sorry for screaming.
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