Collector Dal Rosario Lowenbein Designs Elegant Doll Fashions
Dal Rosario Lowenbein creates outfits and accessories for a variety of elegant fashion dolls. Lowenbein recently took time to discuss her designs with DOLLS:
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Category: Doll Accessories
How Vogue’s Ginny Got Her Big Sister Jill
Jenny Graves embarked on a life-changing journey in 1922 when she joined a small number of other creative women in opening the Vogue Doll Shoppe. Born Jenny Adler in 1890, she was accustomed to designing outfits both for family members and their dolls. She’d already faced more than one challenge in her life — her father died when she was 15, and she put her dreams on hold to help support her family. She married William H. Graves in 1913 and gave birth to three children.
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STEAM-Themed Clothing Brand Adds Matching Doll Line
Svaha (svahausa.com), an online seller of STEAM- (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) themed clothing for adults and children, is expanding its line even further to include designs for dolls. Svaha’s new doll dresses, sized to fit 18-inch dolls like American Girl, are available in several designs matching the fashions offered for kids, as well.
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Chef Gina serves up tasty treats for dolls
Gina Marie King is both a doll collector and a professional chef with a degree in culinary arts. A suggestion from her mother started her on a new path in 1999, when she started creating small-scale food items for fashion dolls and selling them on eBay.
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Collector Corner: Independence Day
As collectors observe the holidays each year, many enjoy including their dolls in the celebration,...
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Crowning Glory: Tamika Spencer creates amazing doll wigs from paper
Doll collector Tamika Spencer started creating her own doll wigs about 2.5 years ago. What makes her creations stand out is the medium she chose for her elaborate hairstyles — paper!
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Simply Elegant: Edith Schmidt’s clothing designs are lovely, lyrical
American fashion designer Rachel Zoe once said, “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” This is particularly true in the case of Arizona doll costumer Edith Schmidt. Schmidt, who designs under the name Edith’s Editions, creates beautiful fashions for BJDs. Her doll models can’t tell you what they want or what they aspire to be. Instead, their completed wardrobes do the talking for them.
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Wonderland Aesthetic: 4 Generations Create Dolls, Miniatures
“It was a wonderland over there.” That’s how Jennifer Latham-Robinson describes her mother’s house — filled to the brim with antiques, vintage children’s books, and old dollhouses. It’s no surprise, then, that Robinson fell in love with fanciful old things.
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