You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Fashion Party (1999)

Little girls love those Olsen twins. Like their popular earlier party adventures--Musical Party, Mall Party, and Costume Party--Fashion Party chronicles the adventures of the ubiquitous blonde twins and their two gal pals. While Mall Party was easily mistaken for an infomercial for America's largest mall, the Mall of America, Fashion Party offers a similar promotion of the Los Angeles Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise (FIDM), and there's even an ad with the school's 800 phone number at the end of the video. Forget the fact that Mall of America is in Minnesota and FIDM is in Los Angeles. It's not important where the fictitious "nervous about being in front of an audience" (!) fantasy video Olsen sisters live. It's important that they wanna party!

Like Mall Party, Fashion Party emphasizes the Olsens' interest in shopping and clothes. The twins and their friends play fashion show, only to find themselves, by the end, in an actual runway show at FIDM, courtesy of a cute boy's sister, a student there. Neither twin is a particularly remarkable actress, singer, or dancer, but the numbers are sweet enough. There is an underscored theme of closeness, loyalty, and thoughtfulness towards friends, which are values anyone appreciates and welcomes into their home. One song even emphasizes that what's important is what's inside. Who could ask for a better value for their teenage girl? --N.F. Mendoza Amazon.com

They DID! They DID! They DID!

About the person saying MK-A DIDN'T wedgie each other, you're WRONG! In one scene before they got on stage, Mary-kate and Ashley pulled each other's undys and laughed at each other just for fun, wich is really IMMATURE for a kid's movie! November 24, 2005

This rocks!

The other reviewer for this item announced that they prance around in bikinis and give each other wedgies! They SO do not! This video invovles them being shown around FIDM by a friend's college-age sister. Fashion victims can find out more about clothes and M-K and A fans can watch and enjoy. It's really fun but their redhead friend and their tour guide are very strange! At the end, the twins have a very quick, FULLY DRESSED (!) fashion show and the whole thing is just fun.
Songs: I'm Still Me, Fashion Jr. High, Gonna Start Somethin' New and It's Not Me, It's You (in a clothes sense, as in 'It doesn't suit me, it suits you, you know.)
Mary-Kate and Ashley sing very well in this, they seem to have grown up with their voices!
Probably the best party video (I've seen six, the ones on Favorite Parties -which includes this- and Vacation Parties)!
By R, aged 12, England, UK June 14, 2003

Mary-Kate and ashley are too young to be sexy

This video was totally inappropriate! I didn't like this video, especially the part that shows the twins dancing around in their dressing room wearing only skimpy little string bikini panties and bras! They're only 13 or 14! I didn't even know they made string bikini underwear in a size that small! They're obviously trying to be grown up, but this borders on child pornography. Why would anyone want to see a couple of adolescent girls running around in skimpy underwear giving each other "wedgies" (that means pulling each others panties up each other's rear ends really tight)? November 20, 2001

Great!!

In this video they are more grown up. They walk down the runway and model in different clothes and have a large audience. I know I would be freaken if I did that. They have really cool clothes and go to the FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise) They take you through a little about fashion and how it works. Its not all that accurate but it tells you a little. The songs are, Look at Me, Junior High, Gonna Start Something New, and Its Not Me but it Sure is You. October 9, 2001

BORING!

The twins have always been cute and appealing. Now that they have outgrown the cutsie-poo, "Don't call me squirt!/No way, Jose!/You're in big trouble, mister!" stage, they are quite attractive young women.

Typical Olsen fare is a formulaic plot and a predictable happy ending. I agree with another viewer that this is really not for "little girls," as the twins are portrayed in a sexy light. This is not the fault or doing of the girls -- it is the money making machine/industry that the girls have been enslaved to since infancy. Due to their rapid maturation, the money makers have to craft yet another way to market the girls for their adoring public. However, I agree with that other viewer -- this movie is not 100% "family friendly." August 21, 2000

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