During the pandemic, the world famous fashion house MOSCHINO held a show of the 2021 clothing collection with the help of puppets! Jeremy Scott hosted the MOSCHINO show as a puppeteer. Doll models in couture outfits walked in front of the puppet guests. According to the designer, he wanted to give his fans the opportunity to distract themselves from everyday reality and immerse themselves in the world of fairy tales. He succeeded! ...

Anya Anderson is an artist, art doll maker, and a member of the National Institute of American Dollmakers NIADA. For me, making dolls is art, self-expression. It is my view of the world, my fantasies and my experience in the art form of a little person. Art has always been in Anya Anderson's life - mostly painting. She attended an art studio as a child and then ...

Geoffrey Gorman is a practicing artist who creates his original sculptures from found material in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He shows his work throughout the United States and has also exhibited in China, South Korea, and Canada. Over the years, his unique sculptures have been written about in the New York Post, Southwest Art, American Craft, American Style, and Cloth, Paper, ...

Richard MacDonald is a contemporary figurative sculptor who has been making art for over fifty years, striving to convey every facet of the human experience in his work. Born in California, the sculptor has spent over 25 years creating works that have changed the modern understanding of figurative sculpture. Among his greatest achievements are historically significant public monuments, one of them a 26-foot bronze sculpture, The Flair,...

Folkert de Jong is best known for his theatrical narrative paintings that address themes of war, greed and power. "When I watch the news or follow the world through the media," Folkert de Jong stated in a conversation with critic Stephen Cox in 2013, "I can't believe what I hear and see, it's like ...

Japanese artist Mari Shimizu's magnificent dolls fascinate viewers. Each of her dolls seems to be part of its own story, a ghostly vision that we can only guess at. Mari Shimizu is a striking representative of Japanese author dolls. When we talk about Japanese dolls, we often think of fashion, anime characters or multi-coloured street art. This author touches a nerve, ...

Olga Venzhega is a doll artist, sculptor, member of the professional union of doll artists UNIDIA, two-time winner and coordinator of the Max Oskar Arnold Prize in Contemporary Doll Art (Neustadt bei Coburg), winner of the Doll of the Year competitions. Member of the jury of the Pandora Prize and the virtual competition History of Fashion. Organizer of the international exhibition "German Puppet Christmas" (Odessa). Olga Venzhega is a permanent ...

A series of sculptures by renowned contemporary artist Urs Fischer is a kind of monument to impermanence, transformation, the flow of time, the changes happening to our world and creative destruction. "Dasha" (2018) is a life-size wax candle depicting Dasha Zhukova, a friend of Urs Fischer and renowned gallery owner. Entirely cast in wax, she is dressed in a pink dress and sitting on a chair. The wick on the ...

Sabine Vogel is a well-known dollmaker from Germany. She makes one-of-a-kind articulated porcelain dolls. Sabine experiments with many materials, but her main focus remains porcelain - a material that seems to be timeless and possesses timeless beauty and vibrancy. Each piece has a story to tell. Sabine Vogel takes full care of the entire image, ...

Sashiko is a traditional Japanese embroidery stitch, usually done with white thread on dark blue fabric. The embroidery process creates repeating (rhyming) patterns, which is the basis of this style. Sashiko in Japanese translates as 'piercing', a way of expressing the essence of this simple but beautiful embroidery. Boro, or Japanese patchwork, is the new trend ...