Beauregard Houston-Montgomery

Beauregard Houston-Montgomery is a doll collector and author on the subjects of doll making and doll collecting.[1] He was formerly the editor of the fashion periodical Details (magazine).[1][2] He is also a socialite[3] and photographer.[4]

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 (pictured); 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]

Entertainment

He interviewed Kim Novak for Interview magazine in December 1986[6] and has featured in Vanity Fair.[7] He was a close friend of Andy Warhol.[3]

gollark: Read the Wikipedia page. It's probably more helpful than me.
gollark: A PID controller without the I.
gollark: You can fly at constant height with a PD controller and active feedback from GPS.
gollark: I scrolled up.
gollark: A surprising amount of neural interface utility development is derived from random horrible scripts I hack together.

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