Carlyle Nuera

Designer on The Barbie Collection team.

Projects include Mutya Barbie, the third in the Global Glamour collection and Noëlie Barbie, the 2014 National Barbie Doll Collectors Convention Live Auction OOAK.

Designer for various Barbie lines including Fashionistas, Fashion Packs (for Ken, especially), Fairytale Essentials, Stardoll by Barbie, So In Style, and the Fifth Harmony dolls, developing products from trendboard to illustration to first model to final product.

In 2011, I won the internal Project Barbie design contest; my gown was chosen to be used as Barbie's signature gown for all official Barbie Live! appearances. My gown was also displayed at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis as part of their Barbie: The Fashion Experience exhibit in March 2012. One of the three 2014 "Pink & Fabulous" Barbie dolls that I designed wears a doll-scale version of this gown.

OOAK work includes Barbie Adores Adam Lambert and Haute Hiver Barbie, both for Divine Design 2012 .

Editing/retouching photos, updating models' portfolio books (both physical and online), informing parents of their child's audition schedule for the Kids Division, and receptionist duties (transferring all calls, shipping/receiving packages, handling open casting calls, etc).

Assisted the production manager, helped set-up lighting, and general clean-up and organizational duties.

Created eight hand drawn and rendered fashion illustrations, with digitally placed prints and graphics for Ed Hardy, Christian Audigier, True Religion and Bejeweled. Illustrations were blown-up and displayed at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim 2010 in Miami.

Photographer for Randall Craig's doll clothing collections. Duties included choosing particular dolls to suit the mood of each outfit, creating sets, props and lighting for each photo and editing/retouching photos for promotional use on his website as well as on doll retailers' websites and in doll magazines.