The Barbie Bra

The Barbie bra was the first piece I ever sold, before I’m Lisa ever existed. I made it because I needed something to wear to a barbie themed beach party and then I sold it as secondhand on Vinted. It was a small sale, but it changed something. For the first time, something I had made existed outside of me,

it was proof that someone else could want to wear the things I imagined and created.

I started with the chains, building a base bra that would hold all of the charms. I collected the pieces one by one: Barbie shoes, charms, beads and anything else that felt right. Each element was then added individually, building up the bra piece by piece until the base became completely covered in shoes, ice creams, flowers, roller skates and more. There was no real plan for how it would end up looking. I just kept adding.