Melissa Ruggieri
She’s an ethereal rock goddess. The high priestess of magical mystery lore.
And now Stevie Nicks is also a Barbie.
On Monday, the plastic likeness of Nicks was be unveiled at the Mattel Shop as a Barbie Music Collector doll. The $55 mini-Stevie is clad in a “Rumours”-era flowing black dress and cape, black platform heel boots and clutches a tambourine adorned with streamers. It somehow also manages to translate Nicks’ alluring gaze.
Nicks’ enthusiasm about being represented in iconic figurine form is charming as the Fleetwood Mac maven, 75, talks with us about the doll that has her “soul,” her emotional reaction to the “Barbie” movie and how she misses Christine McVie.
Question: How did you react when you heard Mattel wanted to make you a Barbie?
Answer: Honestly, I tend to think all the women in the world would love to have a Barbie made of them, but they know that isn’t going to happen. When I found out, I was really catapulted back to when the first Barbies came out in 1959 and my mom bought me a Barbie. She collected dolls forever and I came into Fleetwood Mac a doll collector. When I saw Margot
Robbie standing in that bathing suit (in the “Barbie” movie), I was like, that’s my doll. All these years, that’s exactly who I wanted to be and look like – Margot Robbie in a bathing suit and high heels with my hair on my head.
How much creative input did you have? Because they really nailed not just your clothes, but your stare.
Mattel gave me a lot of platform to be creative and I jumped right on that platform. I said, “I’ll send you my original “Rumours” outfit, which is packed away, and we’ll dig it out and I’m going to get out the boots from the Italian shoemaker who is amazing and made all of my boots until he passed away.” And I sent it off to Mattel.
It really became your iconic look with “Rumours.”
I saw this whole outfit in Santa Monica in 1973. Lindsey (Buckingham) and I were on the road as Buckingham Nicks with Leon Russell at the Civic (Auditorium) and I was standing against the wall and this woman walked by me and she was in my outfit! That was her outfit: A blushy pink color handkerchief skirt, her hair was kind of tucked up in a Gibson (Girl hairstyle) and she walked by me and I said, THAT IS IT! My new outfit.
When I joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975, we went on the road with just my