Phew, Barbie didn't break a nail.
But his slender fingers are going to need an express manicure with elbow grease.
“They were cut when we lifted it with the crane to install it on the platform.
We glued it back together and we’re going to repaint it, it doesn’t matter,” laughs Cédric Pignataro.
This historic carnival-goer has seen others.
Less than 48 hours before the launch of the 139th edition, he and around ten employees from his company Nice Festivities are working on the finishing touches on a rather special float among the 14 that will parade from this Saturday, February 17 until 'to March 3.
Called “The Influencers”, the machine, whose four characters reach a height of 7.5 m, should somewhat tickle the certainties of fans of selfies and social networks.
We see a clone of Barbie, a man who could be Ken, a Facebook-style thumbs-up, bank notes, an influencer in a very short dress and a huge Fiat 500. It's colorful and above all it wants to be gausser “We took the aesthetic of the ancestral Barbie of our world.
, says the designer.
It’s a satire of everything that is appearance, the hidden side of social networks, the race for
likes
, money…”
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