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Model Toys\/Flair Toys, \u201cDaisy\u201d doll, 1970s, wearing \"Meadowsweet\" dress by Mary Quant, private collection. Pedigree, Sindy doll, 1979, wearing \u201cSummery Days\u201d dress by Foale and Tuffin, 1963, private collection. Courtesy of Museum at MIT"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>Opening this September at The Museum at FIT in New York, <em>Doll Dressing<\/em> examines the relationship between dolls, dress and the people wearing it. Curated by Dr. Colleen Hill, the exhibition brings together more than 170 objects, from fashion dolls and full-size garments to accessories, artworks and videos, with designers including Balenciaga, Comme des Gar\u00e7ons, Maison Martin Margiela, Loewe, Moschino and Anna Sui.<\/p>\n<p>What was a toy to us actually had a job long before we were around to play with it. As early as the 14th century, dressed figures circulated through Europe, communicating new styles in three-dimensional form. 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by Jeremy Scott, jacket and skirt with trompe l\u2019oeil print and \u201cpaper doll\u201d tabs, spring 2017, museum purchase. Undercover (Jun Takahashi), printed wool dress, fall 2003, gift of Patricia Pastor. Twiggy London Girl, printed synthetic jersey dress, 1966, museum purchase.Rootstein, Twiggy mannequin, 2025 remake of 1966 design, museum purchase, Courtesy of Museum at FIT."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>What is fascinating is how, at some point, this relationship began to reverse. Dolls no longer simply wore our clothes; fashion started borrowing from theirs. While designers from Moschino and Anna Sui to Loewe and Comme des Gar\u00e7ons began playing with exaggerated proportions, miniature garments and the visual language of dolls, that influence eventually moved beyond clothes altogether. With the idea of the \u201cliving doll\u201d, people themselves became part of the picture. So what we once created in our own image was now something we wanted to resemble.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly where <em>Doll Dressing<\/em> comes in. Across six sections, the exhibition follows this back-and-forth between dolls and humans, from being a fashion messenger and childhood companion to starring as a miniature muse and, eventually, becoming something much darker. Martin Margiela played with this shift by enlarging doll clothing until his strange proportions become almost absurd on a human body. As the exhibition moves on, so does our idea of what a doll can look like. By the time we reach the rebellious <em>Kinderwhore<\/em> aesthetic of the 1990s and <em>Monster High<\/em>, the dolls seem to have grown up with us, \u2013 innocence replaced by something messier, stranger and perhaps a little closer to real life?<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":131534,"id":131534,"title":"2025.13.1_20250723_03","filename":"2025.13.1_20250723_03.jpg","filesize":85998,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2025.13.1_20250723_03.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/doll-dressing-why-fashion-never-grew-out-of-dolls\/2025-13-1_20250723_03\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Loewe by Jonathan Anderson, black vinyl lacquered foam \u201cdoll\u201d shoe (2023), Courtesy of Museum at FIT.","name":"2025-13-1_20250723_03","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":131512,"date":"2026-08-24 16:27:10","modified":"2026-08-24 16:40:22","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1281,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2025.13.1_20250723_03.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2025.13.1_20250723_03.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1281,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2025.13.1_20250723_03.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1281,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2025.13.1_20250723_03.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1281,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2025.13.1_20250723_03-1536x1025.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1025,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2025.13.1_20250723_03.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1281,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2025.13.1_20250723_03-18x12.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2025.13.1_20250723_03.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1281}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p>Dolls might have been there from the start, but this development still feels strangely relevant today, because once again, we are creating things to hand them tasks that used to belong to us. The funny thing is that dolls have already shown us how fluid those roles can be. Obviously they didn\u2019t simply replace the human, but they are able to become another surface for our ideas, fantasies and identities. <em>Doll Dressing<\/em> traces that exchange through fashion, marking how history is stirring us towards a bigger picture: We shape the things we create, but sooner or later, they start shaping us too \u2013 not necessarily leaving us with less, but giving us something new to play with.<\/p>\n<p><em>Doll Dressing<\/em> is on view at The Museum at FIT, New York, from September 16, 2026, through January 3, 2027.<\/p>\n"}],"sleek_card_focus":"mid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doll Dressing: Why Fashion Never Grew Out of Dolls Doll Dressing: Why Fashion Never Grew Out of Dolls<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/doll-dressing-why-fashion-never-grew-out-of-dolls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doll Dressing: Why Fashion Never Grew Out of Dolls Doll Dressing: Why Fashion Never Grew Out of Dolls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/doll-dressing-why-fashion-never-grew-out-of-dolls\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-25T12:18:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lucie Rittau\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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