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By Kathy McGuire, March 6, 2009 12:09 pm

Okay, after five posts on “Why Cry?” (Parts 1-5), time for some light-hearted fun where Dr. Kathy McGuire plays with her collection of Jason Wu’s fantastic Fashion Royalty dolls and their male escorts on the Red Carpet for Oscar night.

 Wu, who designed Michele Obama’s Inaugural Ball Gown, began winning Barbie doll fashion design contests at age 16, went on to join multi-ethnic doll company Integrity Toys (www.integritytoys.com ), and soon started his own line for Integrity, the Fashion Royalty dolls (www.fashionroyalty.com ).

Initially extremely limited (100-1000 max, compared to Barbie’s 30,000-100,000!), with beautiful authentic multi-ethnic face sculpts with fabulous makeup, and fashions from gorgeous fabrics, totally lined, with tucks and pleats and flounces and buttons and snaps galore (compared to Barbie’s velcro closings!), Wu’s Fashion Royalty dolls took the doll collecting world by storm. The entire new line was bought up in Spring and Fall completely on Pre-Order, sight unseen, and dolls immediately tripled (or more!) in value on ebay.

Search “Fashion Royalty,” “Jason Wu,” and “Michele Obama”  in my blog for more details and photos, or look in Category “Best of Everything.”

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By Kathy McGuire, February 23, 2009 1:18 pm

If you go to Wu’s  Integrity Toys’ website, makers of his Fashion Royalty and other doll lines , you will find a complete gallery of photos of all his doll lines presented at last week’s Toy Fair.  www.integritytoys.com/gallery  There are the lower-cost Dynamite Girls, Fashion Royalty, the Hollywood Legends Josephine Parker and Lana Turner, and the new, ultra-articulated 16 inch dolls. You will also find Wu and Mel Odom’s collaboration on the new Gene Marshall doll and her friends with fantastic 1940’s wordrobe. This gallery is only available for a few weeks from Feb. 20, 2009.

At least in the past, Wu’s Fashion Royalty dolls have sold out immediately on Pre-Order on the day of their release which, I think, is today!!!!  My present dealer, Pat Feick, at www.patspotpourri.com begins taking pre-orders today, I think, although I don’t see the photos on her website yet. If I were you, I might choose the dolls I want from the Integrity Toys gallery (also accessed from http://www.fashionroyalty.com/news.html , click on Enter Presentation here), get their names, and email Pat, or another dealer (all dealers are listed on the Fashion Royalty website) with your interest immediately. Pat’s  email and other ordering info are on her website.

Sorry, non-doll lovers on my feed, but you cannot imagine what a frenzy ordering these dolls can be! They are highly limited editions, multi-ethnic,  spectacularly sculpted and dressed, and now that Jason Wu has entered the limelight even more, since Michelle Obama chose to wear his design for her Inaugural Ball gown, hard to predict what will happen with Jason’s doll line (as well as his human line, of course, at www.jasonwustudio.com ).

I offer this only as self-help and cannot guarantee any of this information. I am just a doll lover and long-time collector of Wu’s beautiful, multi-ethnic dolls. For my real work, I “give away” a multitude of self-help skills, for intimacy, conflict resolution, parenting, education, spirituality, creativity, innovation, Creative Edge Organization, and more as described below:

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Creative Edge Focusing (www.cefocusing.com ) teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening, which can be applied at home and at work through The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid.

Based upon Gendlin’s Experiential Focusing (www.focusing.org ) and Rogers’ Empathic Listening, our website is packed with Free Resources and instructions in these basic self-help skills. Learn how to build Support Groups, Conscious Relationships, and Creative Edge Organizations based upon these basic skills of emotional intelligence.

You can try out    “Focusing: Find Out What Is Bothering You.”

Click here to subscribe to Creative Edge Focusing(TM)’s  Instant “Ahah!” e-newsletter and get the latest exercises first!!! 

Click here for a free Intuitive Focusing Mini-Course

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Download complete Instant “Ahah!” Mini-Manual, in English and Spanish, from CEF Website, or download from links at top of this blog.

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By Kathy McGuire, February 21, 2009 2:59 pm

Fashion Royalty dolls by Jason Wu, designer of Michelle Obama’s Inauguration ball gown, celebrate Chinese New Years with Fashion Loft furnishing. Wu was the first to present a full line of beautifully sculpted multi-ethnic 11 1/2 inch fashion dolls. Except for Kyori’s black kimono with cranes, kimonos are largely borrowed from Yue Sae Wa Wa dolls. Tiny authentic food comes from the Re-Ment company.

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By Kathy McGuire, January 23, 2009 12:24 pm

Jason Wu, designer for inaugural ball gown of Michelle Obama, also has a highly successful line of multi-ethnic 12-inch fashion dolls called Fashion Royalty. (www.fashionroyalty.com  ). If you can access my Facebook Profile page at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1622316255&ref=profile   you can find more photos of the dolls.

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By Carolyn, January 21, 2009 1:52 pm

Fashion Royalty Kyori

Young and modern Erin

All "dolled up" for party

This is just a funny thing, but Jason Wu, designer of Michelle Obama’s beautiful Inaugural ball gown, started at age 16 as a winner of fashion design contests for Mattel’s Barbie doll, then, with

www.integritytoys.com , started his own line of 12 inch fashion dolls, the multi-ethnic Fashion Royalty dolls (view the various collections in the archives at www.fashionroyalty.com ).

These dolls took the collectibles world by storm, with faces beautifully and accurately sculpted by Wu — African American Adele, Caucasion Veronique, Asian Kyori, later an East Indian Bollywood beauty and Hispanic doll, and many more. Wu was famous immediately for his beautifully-crafted doll fashions, fabulous fabrics, completely lined, snap and eyelet closings (instead of Barbie’s velcro), embroidery, fine detailing in buttons, darts, gathers.

Besides his authentically sculpted multi-ethnic females, Wu added a line of stunning male dolls of a variety of ethnicities, also with cutting edge fashions.

Wu and company also designed furnishing for the Fashion Royalty Loft collection.

Story line: Competing Fashion Agencies go for blood.

Mattel and Barbie fought back with their own Fashion Model line, but nothing beat the very limited (initially 100-500 per doll) and highly sought-after Fashion Royalty dolls (early editions completely sold out in pre-sales, sight unseen, and immediately tripled in value in Ebay resales).

Wu began making celebrity dolls, starting with his Ru Paul series. Recently, he bought the struggling Gene Marshall line from Ashton Drake, and, with designer Mel Odom, revitalized Gene with updated facial sculpts and fashions. Gene Marshall was the first 16 inch collectible fashion doll, a “1940’s actress starring in many roles in her story line.” Marshall also now has multi-ethnic friends.

About three years ago, Wu moved into human-size fashion design, and he has been featured in Vogue magazine several times. He has designed costumes for the ballet in New York, has a following among actresses and models, and, now, at age 26, has dressed the First Lady of America on her most important evening!

Hooray for Jason Wu and Integrity Toys, which has been creating authentic multi-ethnic dolls for many years.

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Here’s my more serious life’s work, spreading self-help skills of “human literacy.”

Complete Focusing Instructions Manual (17 pages)

“Ajas” Instantaneos Mini-Manual

Creative Edge Focusing (www.cefocusing.com ) teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening, which can be applied at home and at work through The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid.

Based upon Gendlin’s Experiential Focusing (www.focusing.org ) and Rogers’ Empathic Listening, our website is packed with Free Resources and instructions in these basic self-help skills. Learn how to build Support Groups, Conscious Relationships, and Creative Edge Organizations based upon these basic skills of emotional intelligence.

You can try out “Focusing: Find Out What Is Bothering You.”

Click here to subscribe to Creative Edge Focusing(TM)’s  Instant “Ahah!” e-newsletter and get the latest exercises first!!! Today’s blog is part of the year-long e-course offered through the Instant “Ahah!” e-newsletter.

Click here for a free Intuitive Focusing Mini-Course

Click here for a free Focused Listening Mini-Course

 See Core Concept: Conflict Resolution to find a complete mini-course on Interpersonal Focusing and Conflict Resolution, including Rosenberg’s Non-Violent Communication, Blanchard’s “One Minute Apology,” Patricia Evan’s books on Verbally Abuse and Controlling Relationships, McMahon’s Beyond The Myth Of Dominance, and much more.

See Core Concept: Intimate Relationship to find a complete mini-course on increasing intimacy and sexuality, including the “Sharing Your Day” exercise, Listening/Focusing Partnerships for The Way of Relationship, untangling and equalizing desire, tantric sexuality, and much more.

Download complete Instant “Ahah!” Mini-Manual, in English and Spanish, from CEF Website, or download from links at top of this blog.

Find links to free articles, personality tests, multi-media Self-Help training, Classes and workshops

Dr. Kathy McGuire, Director

Creative Edge Focusing (TM)

www.cefocusing.com