Aya Nakamura, recent winner of a Victoire de la Musique and headliner of the Olympic Games opening ceremony, will be entitled to her own Bratz doll. This is a first for a French personality.
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– The doll is inspired by the singer’s appearance on the Met Gala red carpet last May.
It still needed to be proven, but Aya Nakamura rayon internationally. Not only through her songs, whose worldwide success is no longer in doubt. No, from now on, the singer of “Girlfriends” will invest in the field… of dolls. That of the Bratz dollsin this case. The famous doll company shared last Wednesday on its Instagram account a new model featuring the image of French star Aya Nakamura.
A sign of her global impact, the 29-year-old singer thus becomes the first tricolor personality to benefit from this honor from Bratz, which regularly delights by posting dolls representing pop culture icons. In recent weeks, Jenna Ortega and Doja Cat have been entitled to it. Aya Nakamura’s doll is inspired by the French singer’s passage on the red carpet of the Met Gala last May.
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For the occasion, the designer has recreated the Balmain dress encrusted with crystals that the artist wore. Designed by Olivier Rousteing, the piece took up floral codes, effects of leaves and roses, since the theme of the evening was «The Garden of Time» (The Garden of Time). Aya Nakamura, crowned female artist at the last Victoires de la Musique, released her fourth album last year, “DNA”.
It is also the most listened to female artist in France in 2023, according to Spotify, and the single woman in the top 20 best-selling albums in France last year, according to the National Union of Phonographic Publishing (Snep). And silver, gold, platinum and diamond discs are pouring in.
During the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, his performance on the Pont des Arts in collaboration with the Republican Guard was greeted by the publicdespite the controversies surrounding her participation. The creation of her Bratz doll is also, in a way, a reconnaissance of his undeniable musical talent as well as his societal influence.
