As I catalog and store my dolls and their fashions, I decided to take another look at my Top Models. Longtime readers will recognize the original twelve muses.
Barbie Top Models Abby, Tanya, and Barbie; Summer Top Models Summer (the first!), Susannah, Lacy, and Rita; Nikki Top Models Tamala and Faizah; and Teresa Top Models Kikki, Jessica, and Meggie (formerly Maggie, but name changed because of a conflict with a different “Maggie” doll)
Summer was the first Model Muse body sculpt I bought. I needed a redhead for a 2008 photo shoot to promote my novel A Coventry Wedding. She kicked off a passion for these dolls and helped inspire the first season of Runway Monday, also in 2008.
To prove my devotion to the Model Muses, these twelve dolls were later joined by an additional fifty-nine Model Muse body sculpts from the many Basic Barbie collections and other dolls created by Mattel.
Tiny dolls: big collection. Lots of inspiration and imagination thanks to them.