A painted tall clock is based on a kachina doll from the Hopi, a bronze Giacometti-like stretched-out figures bears a gift, and walls are filled with Klee-like paintings, all with Mr. Simpson's idiosyncratic signature.
Upton's character, based on a rag doll owned by her children, was an entirely benign, chivalrous hero of an immensely popular series of books that went on to be banned in Nazi Germany (the golliwog image, wearing a Star of David, was used as an icon in the Nazi's "degenerate music" campaign).
He says the painting is based on an actual doll hospital he came across in Rome.
According to Gillian the main character was based on a large handmade doll given to her by her mother on her third birthday.
Sitting in the dolls department (across from a doll based on a Jamie Lee Curtis book), the illustrator and I signed 100 copies in two hours, and felt we'd been touched by the merchandising wand of a fairy godmother.
During a trip to Europe in 1956, Handler discovered Bild-Lilli, a doll based on a saucy German cartoon character who pursued rich men and wore suggestive clothes.
Talk story about a press conference at the New York Hilton announcing the introduction of the Steve Urkel doll, based on a character in the television comedy "Family Matters".
He says the recession necessitated finding a more innovative approach to taking his product to market when he launched Lottie, an alternative doll based on a child's proportions, with his business partner, Lucie Follett, in 2010.
By Susan Orlean The New Yorker, July 15 , 1991P. 24 Talk story about a press conference at the New York Hilton announcing the introduction of the Steve Urkel doll, based on a character in the television comedy "Family Matters".
"We're doing fantastic business with Barbie," said Stephanie Solomon, the fashion director of Bloomingdale's, where a promotion celebrates the 50th anniversary of Barbie (real name: Barbara Millicent Roberts), the weird and enduringly compelling "fashion" doll based on a "working girl" toy developed in postwar Germany.
