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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Sally Howard

Hello, dolly: meet the Barbie fans getting ready for a fabulous year

‘Barbie does what she wants on her own terms’: Barbiecore fan Chazlyn Yvonne in LA.
‘Barbie does what she wants on her own terms’: Barbiecore fan Chazlyn Yvonne in LA. Photograph: Michelle Groskopf/The Observer

In a colourful Brighton living room, a group of trashily dressed friends plan a trip to Benidorm over a tray of barbecue meats, a cluster of platinum blondes gossip beneath 1970s hairdresser hoods and a “lovely lady” called Alex, dressed in a short skirt and a bra top, runs a thriving pole-dancing club. Meanwhile, in a crystal chandelier-lit salon, a dinner party is under way, where guests sit before a dining table strewn with dismembered body parts and the decapitated head of Jack Sparrow.

“The cannibals’ dinner party was a little joke to see if my husband would notice,” says Tristan Piñeiro of the quirky doll tableaux set up on his living-room walls.

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