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Name Beauregard Houston-Montgomery | ||
Beauregard Houston-Montgomery is a doll collector and author on the subjects of doll making and doll collecting. He was formerly the editor of a fashion periodical called Details (magazine). He is also a socialite and photographer.
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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.
Entertainment
He interviewed Kim Novak for Interview magazine in December 1986 and has featured in Vanity Fair. He was a close friend of Andy Warhol.