Pop Trends Paper Dolls

Mix and match fashions to your heart's content! Just like a real stylist, you can create your own looks, pulling pieces from eight different trends: Romantic, Sporty, Uniform, Futuristic, Minimal, Exotic, Gypsy, Nostalgic. Pop Trends Paper Dolls features three dolls with the same body so they can wear each other's clothes. And what a wardrobe of interchangeable garments they have! Artist and former fashion trend forecaster David Wolfe designed 90 fashion items and accessories representing timeless trends for endless opportunities of creating your own custom looks. Mix a sporty top with exotic pants or a uniform jacket with a nostalgic plaid skirt. Have fun mixing and matching dresses, coats and jackets, shirts, skirts and blouses, accessories¿ and more! Plus a fun pop trivia quiz and fashion trend essay.

Fads and fashion came together for the first time in the 1950s. Undulating in hula hoops, bopping to rock `n roll, drag racing and shopping for the latest fad, teen-agers took over and created their own pop culture that influenced the world. Artist Charlotte Whatley has cleverly incorporated 50 fads of the 50s into 32 fashion items in this new paper doll book from Paper Studio Press. Two couples, Bud & Beckie and Esther & Eddy, have a wardrobe of memorable 50s fashions, complete with everything from pencil skirts and penny loafers to letter sweaters and leather jackets. And, like real sisters or best friends, the two girls can share clothes! A fashion essay by David Wolfe is included along with a fun fashion quiz.

The spotlight shines on Broadway! This special book by Cory Jensen celebrates eight show-stopping Broadway Sensations with superb acting ability, fabulous style and powerhouse vocal talent! Whether a demure secretary longing for recognition or a witch defying gravity and demanding justice, these paper dolls represent women who are pop culture icons. With a combined total 35 Tony nominations and 15 wins, this book features Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Patti Lupone, Bernadette Peters, Heather Headley, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth and Audra McDonald. The 16 costumes span seven decades of Broadway shows: Wicked, My Fair Lady, Gypsy, Funny Girl, The Lion King, Evita, Camelot, Porgy and Bess, Aida, Rent, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Sunday in the Park with George, Shuffle Along, and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. The first in a series of Pop Culture Paper Doll Books, this edition includes a history of Broadway and a fun Broadway trivia quiz!

To the moon and beyond! What will fashions of the future look like? What's the dress code on Mars? Since the beginning of motion pictures we've seen a plethora of sci-fi styles from solid colored unitards to outlandish ensembles to skimpy, sexy garments. Miniskirts always seem to be on trend in space. Artist Brenda Sneathen Mattox represents a fantastic collection of retro-future film and TV fashions in a fun paper doll format. Two models play fantasy dress-up in 18 costumes from Flash Gordon, Aelita: Queen of Mars, Queen of Outer Space, Amazon Women on the Moon, Lost in Space, Forbidden Planet, Star Trek, Battle Beyond the Stars, Space: 1999, Devil Girl from Mars, Flight to Mars, Logan's Run, Barbarella, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Vogue magazine's 1939 prediction of high fashion looks for the year 2000. For added fun, take the Pop Trivia Quiz to see how sci-fi savvy you are. And get lots of pop culture tidbits in the fashion essay by David Wolfe plus 'factoid bubbles' on every page. This book just might inspire you to watch some of 'retrotastic' movies and shows. Even if you're not a sci-fi fan, these costumes are out of this world and worthy of adding to your paper doll collection.

Turn the TV dial back to the time when three networks ruled the airways. ABC, CBS and NBC entertained the whole family with sitcoms and dramas and memorable characters. The liberating decades of the 1960s and '70s brought us such iconic shows as The Brady Bunch, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, That Girl, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and The Carol Burnett Show.In this fun pop culture collection, artist Cory Jensen depicts the fabulous female stars of those eight enduring classics-Florence Henderson, Mary Tyler Moore, Marlo Thomas, Elizabeth Montgomery, Barbara Eden, Donna Douglas, Eva Gabor and Carol Burnett-and 16 fantastic costumes. Includes an essay by fashion historian and trend forecaster David Wolfe.

A full-color, illustrated, comprehensive book on the legendary American doll-maker and the company she founded in 1923, is also the first ever produced with the co-operation of the Alexander Doll Company and Madame Alexander's family. This book features a rich compilation of photographs, which bring to life the magical legacy of Madame Alexander. Collectors of both historical and contemporary dolls will be happy with the book's collection of 758 mint dolls dating from 1930-1998.

Pop Culture Goes to War, by Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, explores the persistence of and opposition to militarism in American life. It provides a comprehensive overview of the role of toys, video games, music, television and movies in supporting contemporary militarism. Resistance to militarism is highlighted through the traditional mediums of music and movies, and increasingly through the arts, 'culture jamming,' and the satire of The Daily Show, The Onion, The Simpsons, The Colbert Report, and South Park.

Kwei-Lin Lum, arguably the most imaginative of all paper doll artists working today, has created a brand new work of art that would be at home in a Museum of Modern Art. MOD POP is a colorful, eye-popping ode to a fashion era that broke all rules, shocked, surprised and delighted the young dolly birds who kicked up their heels in mini-dresses, shrunken sweaters, jumpsuits, flare pants and paper dresses (how appropriate is that?). This spectacular celebration of 1960s fashions offers more than 80 mod items including tights, wigs, boots and other trendy accessories, plus a colorful boutique backdrop and stands for mounting four fashion figures. Every page is a wild and wonderful work of Pop Art artistry that would make Andy Warhol flip his white wig.