Fashion is My Muse

      Dolls are conceptual art objects of strange beauty and desire.                                                                    (Ex...

Les jeux de la poupee by Hans Bellmer 1949   Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) was a German artist, who used self-crafted life sized dolls asse...

Jointed wooden doll, 17th-18th century In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, fashion dolls were used by dressmakers as a way of...

In 1919, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay called The Uncanny in which he described the intense feeling of strangeness that can occur when en...

Viktor & Rolf doll for 2008 retrospective The dolls used in the Viktor and Rolf retrospective at the Barbican Gallery in 2008 were b...

Karen Kline with her fashion dolls 2010 For Karen Kline , making a doll is a creative act that brings much joy to her life. Once a fashio...

It was back to work yesterday and as I walked by the Chanel store on my way to the museum, I could not help but notice that their windows st...

Dear Santa, I've been a very good girl this year. I did all my chores every day and I orchestrated my mother's three moves in eigh...

As a little girl, I was enchanted by dolls. I only had two dolls to play with, but I also had a collection of dolls from around the world. E...

On Thursday, I posted an image of an antique doll on a stand and Judith Thibeau of Studio Judith helped me identify what it was. This type...

Yesterday while poking around a vintage shop on Queen Street, I came across this antique doll on a stand. Unfortunately, the owner of the st...

In October 1773, marchande des modes Rose Bertin set up her boutique called " The Grand Mogol " on the fashionable rue Saint-Hono...

Drawing of Marie Antoinette, about 1785, ink and color on paper, Artist unknown From Lofstad slott, Norrkoping, Sweden In the eighteenth cen...