Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic
- brittanypanter
- 2015年10月24日
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Photo source: Qantas
To help mark its 95th birthday this November Australian airline Qantas has recruited our favorite childhood doll to help celebrate the milestone. 44 Barbie and Ken dolls will don various Qantas uniforms from past decades in a quirky four week pop-up exhibition to be held in the Sydney Qantas Club.
The collection was started by the late Mr John Willmott–Potts, a former Qantas long haul flight attendant who put together the uniforms over a 22 year period and matched them to Barbie and Ken dolls from a similar era. Mr Willmott-Potts passed away in 2010 and donated his collection to the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney.
Qantas asked Australian born, Paris-based designer, Martin Grant to create a mini version of the current Qantas uniform that was launched last year to update the collection. The airline will gift the new pieces to the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences to add to the collection.
The dolls were originally used as part of a travelling interactive history lesson called ‘Stitches in Time’ that Mr Willmott-Potts delivered to schools and libraries in rural NSW.
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