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Doll collector

Beauregard Houston-Montgomery is a doll collector and author on the subjects of doll making and doll collecting. He was formerly a contributing editor of the fashion periodical Details. He is also a socialite and photographer. More recently Houston-Montgomery served as Associate Producer for Perfect Day Films, on documentaries by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, including About Face: Supermodels Then and Now, The Women's List, The Trans List, and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. Houston-Montgomery, never one to hide his androgyny, now refers to himself as Gender Queer, after conferring with Janet Mock, with whom he worked on The Trans List.

Doll collecting

Houston-Montgomery wrote extensively on different models of doll and was a contributing editor of Doll Reader. He noted of competitor dolls of Barbie (pictured); Tressy and Dawn that they displayed a "glitzy lifestyle ... devoid of social responsibility, a precursor of the disco consciousness of the 1970s." He commented on Mattel's belated adoption of Fashion dolls in the mid 1980s. His book of his own photographs of dollhouses and tableaus, "Dollhouse Living", is considered a collector's item, as is his miniature Hanuman Books volume of essays and profiles title, "Pouf Pieces".

Entertainment

He interviewed Kim Novak for Interview magazine in December 1986 and has written features in Vanity Fair, Elle, Elle Decor, Harper's Bazaar, World of Interiors, HG, Vogue, Playgirl, The Advocate, and Torso. He was a close friend of Andy Warhol.

See also

References

  1. ^ M. G. Lord (1995). Forever Barbie: the unauthorized biography of a real doll. Avon Books. ISBN 978-0-380-72049-1. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  2. Here Publishing (November 9, 1999). The Advocate. Here Publishing. pp. 54–. ISSN 0001-8996. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  3. ^ New York Media, LLC (March 9, 1987). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 40–. ISSN 0028-7369. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  4. David Stenn (August 1, 1988). Clara Bow: runnin' wild. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-24125-0. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  5. ^ Toni Schlesinger (March 9, 2006). Five Flights Up and Other New York Apartment Stories. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-1-56898-585-5. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  6. Patrick Mcgilligan (September 14, 2004). Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. HarperCollins. pp. 811–. ISBN 978-0-06-098827-2. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  7. Vanity Fair. Condé Nast Publications. 1996. Retrieved November 13, 2012.

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