Beauregard Houston-Montgomery

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Beauregard Houston-Montgomery is a doll collector and author on the subjects of doll making and doll collecting. [1] He was formerly a contributing editor of the fashion periodical Details . [1] [2] He is also a socialite [3] and photographer. [4] More recently[ when? ] 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 genderqueer, after conferring with Janet Mock, with whom he worked on The Trans List.

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Doll collecting

Houston-Montgomery wrote extensively on different models of doll and was a contributing editor of Doll Reader. [5] He noted of competitor dolls of Barbie – Tressy and Dawn – that they displayed a "glitzy lifestyle ... devoid of social responsibility, a precursor of the disco consciousness of the 1970s." [3] He commented on Mattel's belated adoption of fashion dolls in the mid 1980s. [5] 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 titled Pouf Pieces.

Entertainment

He interviewed Kim Novak for Interview magazine in December 1986 [6] and has written features in Vanity Fair , Elle , Elle Decor , Harper's Bazaar , World of Interiors , HG , Vogue , Playgirl , The Advocate , and Torso . [7] He was a close friend of Andy Warhol. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 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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