The man they call the "King of Paper Dolls" thought he was pleasing only his mother when he made paper dolls of her favorite stars, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, as Christmas presents in ...

NEW YORK — Tom Tierney, who quite by accident found fame and fortune dressing — and undressing — notables from George Washington to Greta Garbo to Pope John Paul II, died July 12 at his home in ...

The movies made Sylvia Kleindinst determined to become an artist. As a girl growing up in small-town Nebraska, she took sketch books to the local moviehouse, the Rialto Theatre. There, in the dark, ...

For most of its 200-year history, the art of paper-doll making has not been flattering to black folks. Prior to the mid-1950s, white illustrators and publishers generally drew the rare black paper ...

Eighteenth-century iterations of paper dolls — hand-painted figures marketed to wealthy Europeans — were nearly as rarefied as the real-life versions of the towering headdresses and ruffled gowns they ...

As much as I love a good art book, I don’t often get my hands on any that feel like art objects in their own right. “Paper Dolls” is that rare exception. It uses strategically placed die cuts, ...

With the holiday shopping season kicking off Black Friday, it’s time to start thinking about what to buy friends and loved ones. Here’s one idea that artnet News is totally crazy about: paper doll ...

A tribute to the man who proved we're never too old to play dress up Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on MTV, The ...

The paper doll collectors are coming! The paper doll collectors are coming! Next month paper doll fanatics from around the nation will gather at the Embassy Suites in Piscataway for the International ...

WASHINGTON — A slip of the scissors and off comes a foot. A nick and there goes a finger. A wrong snip and a tab that would have held up her dress disappears. Paper dolls, fragile though they were, ...