hi! from Disney's Couture de Force's Art Designer
Couture-de-ForceDesigner
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It's awesome that I found your wonderful site, I'll be sure to add your DPF link to my FB page set up for Couture de Force Designer.
Wow! Thank you so much, I really enjoyed reading everyone's comments on the Couture de Force forum discussion. I appreciate your very kind words and valuable input.
To introduce myself, I'm the designer of the Couture de Force collection. I'm a former Disney Feature Animation artist and freelance for Disney Consumer Products, mostly specializing in the princesses. You may have seen some of my style guide artwork that the licensees use on their products.
To answer some of your questions: Couture de Force collection was picked up by most main Hallmark stores, Disney theme parks, along with many gift shops, online, etc., should be in stores by July 15. I believe it will not be LE. Just an fyi, Enesco sales said that they were heavily ordered and having a tough time fulfilling them, which is actually a good thing for them to be popular, but may be harder to find. Popular princesses are the toughest item for the theme parks to keep in stock.
At our initial Enesco meeting last year (as it takes a year for sculpt prototype, manufacturing), they wanted to do 6 characters as a try out to see what I would come up with. We decided on 7, as we felt we should do the most popular princess & villain characters first. If they sell well, I'm fairly sure they will add in the rest of the princesses and villains.
I feel Enesco did an exceptional job with the sculpts, I'm very pleased with them. Aurora has always been my favorite character and I loved being able to do my version of both the pink and blue dress. Great classic fashion designers were my inspiration, Valentino, Versace, etc. Enesco's original concept was to include the ink splats on all of the characters, but it was dropped afterwards, too much detail for already complex designs.
If you would like to go to my Facebook page and see the original artwork I did, it's under https://www.facebook.com/DisneyPrincessVillainCoutureDeForce.
Thank you so much, I look forward to reading more of your comments. I'm particularly interested to see who is everyone's favorite.
Best wishes, =0)
Cyndy Bohonovsky
Wow! Thank you so much, I really enjoyed reading everyone's comments on the Couture de Force forum discussion. I appreciate your very kind words and valuable input.
To introduce myself, I'm the designer of the Couture de Force collection. I'm a former Disney Feature Animation artist and freelance for Disney Consumer Products, mostly specializing in the princesses. You may have seen some of my style guide artwork that the licensees use on their products.
To answer some of your questions: Couture de Force collection was picked up by most main Hallmark stores, Disney theme parks, along with many gift shops, online, etc., should be in stores by July 15. I believe it will not be LE. Just an fyi, Enesco sales said that they were heavily ordered and having a tough time fulfilling them, which is actually a good thing for them to be popular, but may be harder to find. Popular princesses are the toughest item for the theme parks to keep in stock.
At our initial Enesco meeting last year (as it takes a year for sculpt prototype, manufacturing), they wanted to do 6 characters as a try out to see what I would come up with. We decided on 7, as we felt we should do the most popular princess & villain characters first. If they sell well, I'm fairly sure they will add in the rest of the princesses and villains.
I feel Enesco did an exceptional job with the sculpts, I'm very pleased with them. Aurora has always been my favorite character and I loved being able to do my version of both the pink and blue dress. Great classic fashion designers were my inspiration, Valentino, Versace, etc. Enesco's original concept was to include the ink splats on all of the characters, but it was dropped afterwards, too much detail for already complex designs.
If you would like to go to my Facebook page and see the original artwork I did, it's under https://www.facebook.com/DisneyPrincessVillainCoutureDeForce.
Thank you so much, I look forward to reading more of your comments. I'm particularly interested to see who is everyone's favorite.
Best wishes, =0)
Cyndy Bohonovsky
. Welcome to the forum!
