#Byron Lars

[barbielore]

The Chapeaux Collection by Byron Lars was a Gold Label Barbie collectors edition series from the mid 2000s. The design of the dolls was great, but frankly, I'm a sucker for interesting package and display design and that's why this collection really caught my eye.

Pictured above is Pepper, the third doll in the collection. In addition to her black coat, she has a fabulous black boater hat to complete the ensemble. But what really delights me is that they are in HAT BOXES.

It's difficult of course to pick a favourite of the series, because they're all very visually striking.

Coco, for example, comes with a hat pin as long as her arm and there's not much more of a statement than that.

But I think Sugar is my favourite, and I can't quite put my finger on why.

She's just really delightful.

Incidentally: as of now, Wikipedia puts Byron Lars' total Barbies designed at 19, but he is not a Mattel designer. As of 2024, his fashion label is In Earnest By Byron Lars, formerly Byron Lars Beauty Mark.

[evilrashida]

[arianavscouturevault]

Byron Lars Ready-To-Wear Spring/Summer 1994

Model: Eva Herzigova

[magazinescans]

Tatu Barbie Doll by Byron Lars Treasures of Africa Collection Limited Edition

Mbili Barbie Doll by Byron Lars Treasures of Africa Collection Limited Edition

Barbie® Collectibles by Mail - Summer 2003

[thelivesofourdolls]

Who's your favorite Byron Lars Barbie? I can't name my favorite, but I own Sugar and Mbili.

[modernwizard]

How amazing is this?! OP 1) works for Byron Lars, 2) got to try on a Byron Lars outfit made in 1:1 scale after one of the Byron Lars designer Chapeaux Barbies [Sugar], and 3) got pictures while wearing the outfit and holding the doll inspiration! That is some truly magnificent fashion cosplay!

Tagging the Stylist because she would definitely look good in this!

so my work was supposed to send issa rae a dress (life-size version of the sugar chapeaux barbie dress) for talk shows but there are no talk shows cos of the strike. so the dress remains here. they said i could try it on……..

[therunwayarchive]

In Earnest by Byron Lars, Spring 2023

[myrunwayarchive]

In Earnest by Byron Lars Spring 2024 RTW

[theaphroditefashionfile]

In Earnest By Byron Lars Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear NYFW

[calaisreno]

Sixth Sense

885 Words / Prompt: Intuition

Molly notices. 

She’s not really a friend of John’s. They're friendly, but she never has much to say to him. He’s kind to her, and probably aware of how she felt about Sherlock. 

As one of the few who knows Sherlock is alive, she has a terrible advantage over John Watson. Not the one she used to wish for. 

They met in her lab, when Mike Stamford came looking for Sherlock, to introduce him to John. Well, nobody introduced her. Sherlock was fixated on her lipstick for some reason. She remembers John’s eyes on her, then turning to focus on Sherlock. That was the day she finally figured out that Sherlock wasn’t interested in her. In time, her crushing disappointment was lessened by the realisation that he was gay. It wouldn’t have mattered what shade of lipstick she wore or however many coffees she brought him; he would never look at her the way he looked at John.

At first she thought John was straight. After her blunder with Jim from IT (who turned out to be not only gay, but also a criminal) she consulted her friend Jasper, another gay man. “How can you tell?”

Asking this, she wasn’t thinking about Sherlock, or even Jim. What she was wondering about was John, who sometimes looked at Sherlock as if he’d hung the moon, but still dated ridiculous women. 

Of course men have different taste in women, just as women prefer certain types of men. She was attracted to men like Sherlock— tall, pale, Byronic hair, blindingly intelligent. Men who entered rooms with a swirl, who spoke with voices that made her shiver. They were hard to find, and to expect such a man also to be kind, romantic, and not gay was apparently too much. 

John dated women who were a bit out of reach. Taller women, confident women, the kind who didn’t need the right lipstick to be noticed. The kind who didn’t own three cats and spend the holidays with their ageing mother. These unobtainable women never lasted more than two dates. And he never seemed to mind.

John is not Molly’s type. She appreciates his abilities as a doctor. He has the right manner with Sherlock, a bit snarky, but not mean. He’s not tall, not gracefully slender. He has a temper. He’s blond and a bit sweary, good-looking in an average way, an ordinary bloke who goes out for pints with people like Greg Lestrade and Mike Stamford. 

She’d barely noticed him that day in the lab. He’s a man who doesn’t stand out, who completely disappears in the shadow of a man like Sherlock.

John and she are that awkward thing: friends of friends. He would never introduce her as, my friend, Molly. It would be Sherlock’s friend, Molly. If he asked a favour of her, she would do it because Sherlock would appreciate it, not because she feels any obligation to John.

She doesn’t hate him, or wish anything bad on him. She might have felt jealous for a few days, simply because Sherlock never forgets John the way he forgets about her the minute she’s out of his sight. 

She noticed him watching John, usually when he wasn’t looking. He looked sad. And she thought, I know what that feels like.

The memory of that look weighs on her, weeks after Sherlock’s funeral. A hard day, that was, sitting in a pew trying to fake sadness as she watched others grieve.

As she watched John grieve. 

What does it mean that John Watson looks like he’s lost everything? She sees him at the hospital sometimes, his hooded gaze avoiding the eyes of others, his psychosomatic limp making him wince with pain. 

She can’t say what it is that tells her. Maybe she’s just practiced for so long on other men that she’s developed a sixth sense about it. 

John loved Sherlock— not just as a friend. And he’s probably just now realising that. She supposes that quite a few men dismiss those feelings of attraction. Jasper says, all men are gay, potentially. It’s just easier to stay in the closet.

There are various reasons for that, and she doesn’t want to speculate what John’s are, but she observes his grief, and knows regret is a large part of that. 

Sherlock will be back, someday. He wasn’t very clear about when. Six months, maybe a year. But she thinks he’s being optimistic; he wants to come home to John, not leave him to grieve for years. 

And by the time he does make it back, John will have found another woman. Blonde and pretty. Nothing like the dark beauties he used to date. But still, clever like Sherlock, a bit imperious and demanding. He will look at her the way Sherlock always looked at him, when he didn’t notice. 

She could tell him. There’s only her promise to stop her from doing that. Could John keep the secret? Sherlock told her not knowing will keep him alive, that knowing would put him in danger.

She’s not in danger. Nobody thinks she mattered that much to Sherlock. Her feigned grief is taken as real, but everybody knows she’ll get over it. Just a crush.

As for John Watson, this might just kill him. 

That’s a problem she could solve. 

[mythosidhesdollhouse]

What’s your dream barbie?

Byron Lars 'Sugar'

[mybeingthere]

"Canadian artist Zachari Logan isn’t your usual artist with his idiosyncratic style that blends a Lars von Trier-level sense of doom and the romanticism of the British poets Keats, Shelley and Byron. This is an artist, after all, who offers an ode to a cypress tree that the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once sat beneath in “Goethe Cypress, Sunset; Guisti Gardens.” In his poetry book “A Natural History of Unnatural Things” he describes looking at art as “a dialogue with ghosts” as simple and as true a distillation of the magic of creation that spans centuries as any. As with so many of his drawings, the tree is captured in an unusual composition that changes mere rendition to subjective vision. The tree is represented by a portion of its boughs leaning into the frame, as the tree might be experienced lying beneath it and looking up. The cypress is framed against Logan’s soft blue paper that stands in for sky."

https://www.ajc.com/.../death.../5E7H76YZD5BU3IDPRHQQBTPVDI/

https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/.../zachari-logan.../

[lesser-known-composers]

Performance by Nigel North, Baroque lute, on 20 March 2016 as part of a concert entitled "ca. 1685," at the Byron Colby Barn in Grayslake IL, USA.

The suite is taken from the première livre of Charles Mouton's ((c. 1617 – c. 1699) 1699 collection, Pièces de luth sur differents modes:

Prélude Tombeau de Madame, Pavanne La Libertin, Canarie La belle Florantine, Sarabande La belle Espagnolle, Chaconne La belle Danceuse, Gavottes

The 11-course lute was built by Lars Jonsson in 2005, after Hans Frei.

[anatartz]

Byron Lars Beauty Mark, beautiful jacket

[mollypoly86]

Byron Lars designs in Montreal barbie Expo

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Tatu™ Barbie® Doll by Byron Lars - Limited Edition In Swahili the word for “three” is Tatu.  Third in the Treasures of Africa™ Collection created by renowned fashion designer Byron Lars.

Barbie® Collectibles Holiday Collection™ Gift Guide 2003

[website-com]

Byron Lars for barbie (random assortment)