Normally, I am able to post my Oscar girls no more than 2 weeks after the event. But this year, I saw quite a number of dresses that inspired me. As a result, I became VERY AMBITIOUS! It w...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2024/03/oscar-buzz-24.html
One major trend emerging from the past few season is something called "Quiet Luxury." In another era, this was a conservative look simply known as "classic." There has been so much smoke and f...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2024/02/simply-that-one-basic-dress-ten-great.html
My oh my...11 years already!!! The last 12 months were a challenge...... I admit...we crawled throughout the year to arrive at the finish line this year! But we are still standing! It has...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2024/02/eleventh-hour.html
You know my girls were not going to let me miss.... red carpet season. Yes, it's been awhile since my last post, but my divas insisted how much they NEED NEW CLOTHES!!!! Now that the holidays...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2024/01/dolls-eye-view-golden-globes-2024.html
It's been awhile.... There haven't been many posts this year but I'm still here after what has been a year of personal challenges. I am looking after a parent with dementia. And, if you know ...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/12/happy-holidays-from-fds.html
Haute Couture is not always about flamboyancy. It's also about the genius of a special, out-of the-ordinary cut. Given the fact it took me a month to figure out how to construct such a underw...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-swirl.html
For most of this summer, I have been mesmerized by a Instagram Reel attributed to BiasCutWoman, a self prescribed artist/digital creator who uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to aid in her ...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-ai-challenge.html
The photo below which I found on Pinterest, has captivated my attention the moment I laid eyes on it. All summer I kept this image in my phone, glancing at it daily as I tried to figure out w...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/07/take-another-bow.html
I have been searching for something very special for quite awhile. Then one day, while surfing on Pinterest a photo caught my eye. Those long, draped sleeves trimmed in fur were simply....ang...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/07/angel-food.html
Over the past six weeks, I have been busy. Busy looking at Spring Summer catwalk shows in an effort to find something worth replicating and even busier making up what I found for my divas. I ...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/05/dolls-eye-view-best-of-spring-summer.html
This was a most interesting Oscar "Red Carpet" event. First of all the carpet was champagne and not red. The number of nominees and Oscar winners was, perhaps, the most diversified in t...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/03/oscar-buzz-23.html
For awhile now, I've been wanting more estate jewelry for my girls. But for reasons of time, cost and current geopolitical issues, I have not wanted to order from abroad. I have seen ropes o...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/03/diamond-life.html
OMG! Can you believe it's been 10 years already! Back then after not finding the style of doll fashions I was looking for…. I launched this blog. “Welcome to Fashion Doll Stylist...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-difference-decade-makes.html
Well....... It's been awhile! But as promised, I've been making an effort to get my blogging shoes back on! My journey back to the blog began last month with my annual Dolly Advent Calendar,...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/01/dolls-eye-view-golden-globes-2023.html
Wishing all of our friends a wonderful, whimsical, healthy and dolly good year ahead. April and the gang.
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2023/01/happy-new-year-2023.html
To all of our readers, This was a year of personal challenges which resulted in a series of "creative blocks." Nonetheless, as we near our tenth year in existence, this blog remains ve...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2022/12/merry-christmas-2022.html
After nearly 10 years of producing content on my blog, it is difficult to create something original and current. For this project, I began by revisiting the corset. But it all seemed deja vu....
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2022/09/hot-glue-cool-corsets.html
It has been a long, hot summer and for the most part, I've given my crew some time off. This has given us time to really contemplate the future of fashion. Although the fashion world had alre...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2022/08/dolls-eye-view-paris-fallwinter-2022.html
In the absence of any real inspiration, we once again, retreated to our dolly textile archives and revisited another fun technique: frayed edges. We combined with an earlier theme: denim to co...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2022/06/frou-frou.html
If you are viewing this post anywhere else than the AUTHENTIC FDS blog, , click HERE to experience the real thing!!!! Summer is here and my girls have quite a few warm weather galas ahead....
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2022/06/pucker-up-again.html
Dear readers, It was brought to my attention that another website has been copying several of my complete blogposts and reproducing it in its entirety on their site. By the time I was alert...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2022/05/violated.html
It was certainly great to see the Academy Awards return to an in-person event. The stars were all out in full glam mode and my girls were quick to head out to the red carpet in their own doll...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2022/04/oscar-buzz-2022.html
We can always count on Paris for a wide diversity of looks. But as was the case with Milan, there was not a lot to fall in love with. But within the dumpster dive of concept clothes and flight...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2022/03/dolls-eye-view-paris-fall-trends-2022.html
There wasn't enough collections of interest in London so the girls headed straight for Milan. They didn't find lots of clothes, but what they found were very special pieces. Instead of doing...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2022/03/dolls-eye-view-milan-fall-22-trends.html
With life getting somewhat back to "normal," it seems we will be able to report on Fashion Month the way we like to.... that is, one city at a time. There are some designers are continue to sh...
https://fashiondollstylist.blogspot.com/2022/03/dolls-eye-view-ny-fall-fashion-2022.html