The Pink Diamond Barbie

If you have a daughter that likes to play with barbie dolls, you may want to keep her away from this one. It’s a special edition created by Stefano Canturi. And it sells for about a half a million dollars.
Here’s a description: “Her blonde hair styled in an updo, wearing an openwork variously-cut diamond collar necklace, centering upon a cut-cornered modified square-cut fancy vivid purplish pink diamond, weighing approximately 1.00 carat, and a diamond ring, to her black strapless party dress and pink peep-toe stilettos.” Not bad for a doll.
Australian jewelry designer of Italian heritage, Stefano Canturi, has designed and brought to life exceptionally unique artisan jewelry that is both modern and iconic. Stefano Canturi is devoted to designing rare and special commission pieces within family heirlooms, for Hollywood history, and for his five exclusive jewelry salons in Australia and USA. Stefano Canturi was invited by Mattel to create a historical concept to highlight how iconic Barbie has been throughout her 50 years. The result is Barbie by Stefano Canturi, the rarest and most valuable Barbie ever created.
“I wanted the jewelry design to pay homage to Barbie’s modern yet timeless style over the ages” says Stefano Canturi, who applied his Cubism concept to the design of her necklace. Hand-selected by Stefano Canturi himself, the modified square-cut fancy vivid purplish pink diamond transcends this exceptional Barbie into a historical investment piece. Should the colored diamond be unmounted by the purchaser, Stefano Canturi may be contacted directly regarding a replacement pink sapphire for Barbie’s necklace.
Stefano Canturi created Barbie by Stefano Canturi with the intention of her destiny making a meaningful contribution to the women who inspire him and for whom he designs. Stefano Canturi will donate 100 of the profits from the sale of Barbie by Stefano Canturi to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
To celebrate the iconic Barbie doll, whose popularity throughout the years has only come to grow, Mattel commissioned designer Stefano Canturi to do something fancy. Since diamonds on a beautiful girl, complimented by a similarly gorgeous outfit, is as fancy as it gets, Canturi created a special Barbie doll that will most likely sell for half a million dollars. According to the press release sent out to members of the media, this Barbie is not special only because of the $500,000 price tag – but also because she’s unique. The doll will go up for auction at Christie’s in New York and will fetch between $300,000 and $500,000. What’s even better, all the proceeds will go to charity. The money will go to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, in recognition of Breast Cancer Month, it has been announced. This adds a little more charm to this one of a kind doll.
Asked about how he came up with the idea to make this Barbie doll, Canturi says all he had to do was take a look back at the long Barbie history to find inspiration. The bidding for the Barbie doll by Stefano Canturi ended on October 20, 2010. Now the regular offerings by Barbie don’t seem so expensive, do they?