Hints and tips:
...Radical architectural drawings are smuggled in beside dolls’ houses....
...Even decorative items, including in Japan the wooden dolls known as “Kokeshi”, are considered Mingei, taking on a role that traverses popular interior decoration object and kitschy folk craft souvenir....
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
...I pair them up to make little stories: a bird and a guitar, or an amber doll and a piece of coral....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...Thankfully I had the opportunity to tell Birkin I adored her a few years ago on a big stage somewhere deep in the guts of the V&A museum....
...“Children have always chosen animals,” says Katy Canales, project curator at Young V&A, which reopens today in east London following a £13mn renovation....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...“You know when they did that [David] Bowie show at the V&A? For a long time I’ve thought, Pam could do that,” says Lucas. “So in a way, this is a small step towards Pam’s big retrospective.”...
...The virtual currencies used on Roblox and Fortnite are called Robux and V-Bucks, which can be purchased online or as gift cards....
...The miniaturisation of architecture can evoke, like the haunted doll’s house, the uncanny, the unheimlich (literally the unhomely)....
...Pockets, as far as I’m concerned, are for putting your hands in and, as a fashion curator at the V&A, I’ve found some surprising things in them over the years. It all began when I was a child....
...The first, by Aaron Angell, is in a frame inspired by the techniques used to make Tudor doll’s houses (£1,152)....
...At its heart remain the 2,000 objects — from dolls’ houses to Star Wars figurines — telling the story of childhood play over the past 300 years....
...Clichés of femininity — bows, florals, baby-doll dresses — are frequent targets....
...Although Vacuuming the Gallery and the new series for Lisson are layered as a Russian doll, Graham sounds sincere when he says he’s “trying to move away from the loaded back story”....
...However the subject has also generated controversy over Victorian attitudes to sexuality and children and the emergence of doll-like fashion trends in Japanese culture....
...It was designed for Valley of the Dolls, a film Judy was sacked from in 1967. She took it with her....
...Her strikingly beautiful face, distinctive monobrow and braided hair have in recent decades graced objects as diverse as egg cups and dolls....
...The best, an Yves Saint Laurent 1983 couture gown is directly referenced in a trompe l’oeil cut-out “paper doll” dress by Jeremy Scott for the Italian label Moschino....
...The robe is worn over a shapeless V-neck T-shirt and plaid, knee-length shorts of indeterminate but nonetheless offensive colours. The clothing gets worse from there....
...There are meticulously crafted models, cut away or illuminated — products of a whole sub-industry that supplied them for ticket-office windows and the ships themselves in a Russian-doll fantasy of incessant...
...You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v....
...A number about being “a wind-up doll” perfectly sums up the dubious thrills of made-to-order celebrity....
...A green V-sweater was oversized, trackpants sat slouchy. All well and good, but there’s a sticking point....
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