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Stevie Nicks stands below a picture of her new Barbie doll throughout a live performance at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday.

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Stevie Nicks stands below a picture of her new Barbie doll throughout a live performance at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday.

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This Barbie is thought for her bewitching voice and sense of fashion, notably her love of shawls. She’s topped charts for many years, each as a band member and a solo artist. And she or he’s the primary lady to have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of fame twice.

Yep, she’s Stevie Nicks.

The Fleetwood Mac singer is the newest icon to have her likeness celebrated in doll kind as a part of Mattel’s Barbie sequence of well-known musicians, together with Tina Turner, Gloria Estefan, David Bowie and Elvis Presley. Will probably be formally launched in November.

Mattel says it designed the doll in honor of Nicks’ seventy fifth birthday, which was in Might. It was impressed by her outfit on the duvet of the 1977 album Rumours.

The doll has recognizable blond bangs and smoky eye shadow, wears a flowy-sleeved black gown, platform boots and moon-shaped pendant and holds a tambourine cascading with ribbons.

Nicks is thought for her flared, fringed all-black ensembles, a glance she’s been honing for the reason that Seventies. She instructed USA At present that after her first Fleetwood Mac tour she contacted a designer, Margi Kent, and drew her a stick determine carrying a handkerchief skirt and platform boots.

“I stated to her, ‘Margi, I wish to put on this after I’m 60 as a result of I do know I will be on stage after I’m 60,’ regardless that I might been in Fleetwood Mac all of eight months, and he or she stated, ‘OK,’ and I went again in per week and by the point we did Rumours I had my stunning black outfit,” Nicks recalled.

Greater than a dozen albums, excursions and Grammy nominations later, that ever-iconic ensemble is now immortalized in Barbie kind.

Nicks stated in a tweet that she was overwhelmed when Mattel first approached her with the thought of a Rumours Barbie: “Would she appear to be me? Would she have my spirit? Would she have my coronary heart?” The ultimate product, she stated, completely does.

“After I take a look at her, I see my 27 yr previous self~ All of the recollections of strolling out on an enormous stage in that black outfit and people beautiful boots come speeding again~ after which I see myself now in her face,” Nicks wrote. “What we now have been by means of since 1975~ the battles we now have fought, the teachings we now have realized~ collectively. I’m her and he or she is me.”

Nicks — who simply prolonged her present North America tour into subsequent yr — formally launched “Stevie Barbie” on stage at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday evening.

“I hope you all love her as a lot as I do,” she stated, holding up the figurine as the group cheered.

And it appears folks do. The $55 doll offered out on Mattel’s web site inside hours of its preorder launch on Monday, and shortly emerged on resale markets at nearly twice the worth.

For Nicks, the ’70s-era doll represents a lifetime of recollections

Nicks — in her signature black outfit and flowing sleeves — performs with Fleetwood Mac in Might 1977.

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Nicks — in her signature black outfit and flowing sleeves — performs with Fleetwood Mac in Might 1977.

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Nicks, a longtime child doll collector, performed an energetic function in designing her Barbie.

She told TODAY that after Mattel contacted her in March, she despatched them her authentic Rumours gown, straight from the vault. As an alternative of the ballet sneakers she wore on the duvet, she despatched them a pair of suede boots, however did not anticipate to see them on the doll as a result of “that will be manner too laborious.”

“When you can copy these boots with just a little, teeny tiny platform, you will get it,” she remembers telling the corporate.

When Mattel despatched again the prototype a couple of months later, Nicks stated, she could not cease staring on the boots: “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, these are actual.’ ”

She did have a couple of strategies, like making the doll’s enamel seen and eye shadow increased. The second model got here again in June.

“I opened her up and I went, ‘She’s simply good,’ ” Nicks instructed USA At present. “This little Barbie is so treasured and so they helped her have my soul. If no one else on the planet bought her however me, I might nearly be OK with that.”

Nicks says the doll is significant as a result of it isn’t only a collectible, however a group of all her life’s experiences.

She in contrast it to a dream catcher, telling Individuals, “she catches all of the recollections and desires, holds them in her palms and reveals them to you.”

“I see every little thing in her,” she added. “After I take a look at her, it is like she’s my entire life from starting to now.”