Beauregard Houston-Montgomery
Doll collector
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Beauregard Houston-Montgomery is a doll collector, socialite, photographer, and journalist.[1][2] He was formerly a contributing editor of the fashion periodical Details and Doll Reader.[3][4] He specializes on the subjects of doll making and doll collecting.
Career
Houston-Montgomery was a columnist for Details magazine.[5]
Houston-Montgomery was a friend of pop artist Andy Warhol.[1] He interviewed costume designer William Travilla for the July 1986 issue of Warhol's Interview magazine.[6] He also interviewed actress Kim Novak for the December 1986 issue.[7]
Houston-Montgomery has also written features in Vanity Fair, Elle, Elle Decor, Harper's Bazaar, World of Interiors, HG, Vogue, Playgirl, The Advocate, and Torso.[8]
Houston-Montgomery wrote extensively on different models of doll and was a contributing editor of Doll Reader.[9] He noted that competitor dolls of Barbie – Tressy and Dawn – displayed a "glitzy lifestyle ... devoid of social responsibility, a precursor of the disco consciousness of the 1970s."[1] He commented on Mattel's belated adoption of fashion dolls in the mid 1980s.[9] His book of his own photographs of dollhouses and tableaus, Dollhouse Living, is considered a collector's item, as is his miniature Hanuman Books volume of essays and profiles titled Pouf Pieces.
More recently[when?] Houston-Montgomery served as associate producer for Perfect Day Films, on documentaries by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, including About Face: Supermodels Then and Now, The Women's List, The Trans List, and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.
Personal life
Houston-Montgomery, never one to hide his androgyny, now refers to himself as genderqueer, after conferring with Janet Mock, with whom he worked on The Trans List.