Barbie Fashion Show

by Vivendi Universal

Product Features

• Help Barbie get ready for fashion week in Paris
• Complete 10 exciting fashion assignments
• Advance through 3 different design studios
• Choose the styles, fabrics, and colors
• Select the stage, music, and special poses

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001BR9O8
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: August 17, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,396 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #3 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Fashion
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Design clothing collections in the glamorous world of high fashion as you help Barbie get ready for the biggest event of her career--Fashion Week in Paris! Complete exciting fashion assignments to advance through three different design studios. Create looks for each show by choosing the styles, fabrics, and colors. Pick hairstyles and shoes, too! Plus select the stage, music, and special poses to bring the runway to life! It’s up to you to create the coolest, most fashionable fashion shows ever!

Features:

• Create dazzling fashions in three unique design studios as you prepare for each show!
• Select patterns and fabrics for styles that sizzle! Then add your special touch with decals, sequins, and more!
• Dress up Barbie, Teresa, Christie, Lea, and Kayla in style! Add new hairstyles and cool shoes for the perfect look!
• Set the stage for the ultimate runway shows by choosing the shape, theme, props, and even music!
• Choose the perfect moves and poses for Barbie and her friends to show off your designs! Models sashay, twirl, and strut down the runway!
• Complete 10 fashion assignments in all! Collections get bigger and better as you unlock bonuses like new fabrics, patterns, stage sets, music, and more!
• Snap pictures of your fashions and play back shows for your friends! You can even post your designs at Barbie.com

Product Description

Barbie Fashion Show lets you help Barbie get ready for Fashion Week in Paris! Advance through 3 design studios creating stylish outfits for Barbie and her four friends to model. It's up to you to put on the coolest, most fashionable fashion shows ever!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

111 of 120 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware Hardware Requirements, August 28, 2004

By 

Nicholas Namias "fatmanrox" (Miami Beach, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barbie Fashion Show (CD-ROM)

This game requires DirectX 9.0 and video card that supports 3D and 32mb (not 16 as stated above) of video RAM. I've got a Sony VAIO 2.66ghz P4 with all the latest drivers and updates. This system tests out as optimal on all sorts of web sites for evaluating your system. However, this game will not run on this system. Unless you've got a system specifically set up for gaming, I think theres a pretty good chance it won't run on your system. Don't disappoint your little girl with this software. Before buying, install the latest DirectX from the Microsoft website, then go START>Run>dxdiag, then run all the tests. If you don't pass the Direct3D 9 test, don't buy it.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some parts are boring., February 19, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Barbie Fashion Show (CD-ROM)

I think that most of this game is fun, but a few parts of it are boring.
There is a part where you pick what moves the models will do in the show. But you have to watch them walk clear around the stage and it takes a while. I either pick a small stage or just skip this. To skip it, you push the button that makes the model start walking then it turns into an X. If you push the X the model goes back to the start of the stage and you don't have to do it.
The other bad part is that you have to color the backs of the clothes! If you don't want to, just color the front then start the next outfit. When you go back to the first outfit the back will be colored exactly like the front!
The rest of the game is fun. I like to design the clothes. The first time you play it you do about 9 different shows that a lady named Cookie tells you what the theme is. When you're done you get an award and you can keep doing shows without starting over! The computer does say the theme but you don't have to do the theme after you finish the nine games and get the award. At the show they'll just say "This is the best fashion show ever!" or something like that.
I also like to choose who wears what clothes and pick their hairstyles and shoes. You can even send your clothes to barbie.com! I haven't done it yet, but I've seen clothes that people designed on barbie.com. I think I know how to do it, but I might be wrong. When you are choosing their hairstyles and shoes there is a button in the corner that says "barbie.com." That might be how you send the clothes.
I also like to see the shows, but after you have a lot you have to delete them to do more. You have to delete your clothes when you do this.
There are a few boring parts, but most of it is a fun game. I do not like Barbie anymore but I like this game. I do like the new Barbies better. But it's annoying that all the blond dolls are girly and have blue eyes and wear pink.
Even if you do not like Barbie, you might like this game.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too Much Fun! Work It BARBIE!, October 12, 2005

By 

Stacey A. Dolak "Yoga Mom" (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Barbie Fashion Show (CD-ROM)

I Bought this game for my two daughters aged 5 & 6 and I do not know who has more fun playing it, them or me!
The graphics are great. The fabric choices are fun and varied. The different assignments are interesting and challenging and the fashion shows at the end of each cahllenge are fun to put together and watch and put music too and take pictures of.
I would highly recommend this for all ages. Even the older girls in the neghborhood love playing it with us!