Doll Collectors: (List will be updated as we continue to interview people for this category.)
- Debbie Behan Garrett, from the US, doll collector, Black doll enthusiast, griot, and author
- Gene Foote, from the US, fashion doll historian and collector
Gene Foote
PODCAST: To hear the interview, visit:
- our Buzzsprout page
- our Apple Podcast page
- our podcasts page
YouTube: To see the video version of this show, please visit our YouTube page at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv-hMFIgWFjof4EJ7L6yyHg
In The Doll World Podcast & YouTube channel is excited to release this interview with Gene Foote, fashion doll historian and collector! We chose to interview Gene because he is an important historian in the doll world. He tells us how he happens to be in the room when Barbie is introduced at the New York Toy Fair; how he happens to be purchasing napkins and winds up buying a #1 Barbie for a goddaughter; and how he was almost ticketed for jay walking across a street to get a closer look at his first Bild Lilli!
Gene’s stories are hilarious and lovely. He has memorized so many details about the Barbie, Bild Lilli, and Gene Marshall that dates, times, and locations roll from his memory. British doll creator, Julian Stanislaw Kalinowski, described Gene as “one of the stars” of the doll world. After hearing Gene’s stories, you just might agree with Julian!
To find out more about Gene and his doll journey, visit his Facebook group: Bild Lilli ... Queen of the 50's and to see more aboutthe glamorous coffee-table book of photos of Barbie, her family and friends from '59 to '89, with a story of a girl named Barbie who becomes an icon, he published please visit the facebook group For The Love of a Doll https://www.facebook.com/fortheloveofadoll
PODCAST: To hear the interview, visit:
- our Buzzsprout page
- our Apple Podcast page
- our podcasts page
YouTube: To see the video version of this show, please visit our YouTube page at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv-hMFIgWFjof4EJ7L6yyHg
In The Doll World Podcast & YouTube channel is excited to release this interview with Gene Foote, fashion doll historian and collector! We chose to interview Gene because he is an important historian in the doll world. He tells us how he happens to be in the room when Barbie is introduced at the New York Toy Fair; how he happens to be purchasing napkins and winds up buying a #1 Barbie for a goddaughter; and how he was almost ticketed for jay walking across a street to get a closer look at his first Bild Lilli!
Gene’s stories are hilarious and lovely. He has memorized so many details about the Barbie, Bild Lilli, and Gene Marshall that dates, times, and locations roll from his memory. British doll creator, Julian Stanislaw Kalinowski, described Gene as “one of the stars” of the doll world. After hearing Gene’s stories, you just might agree with Julian!
To find out more about Gene and his doll journey, visit his Facebook group: Bild Lilli ... Queen of the 50's and to see more aboutthe glamorous coffee-table book of photos of Barbie, her family and friends from '59 to '89, with a story of a girl named Barbie who becomes an icon, he published please visit the facebook group For The Love of a Doll https://www.facebook.com/fortheloveofadoll
Debbie Behan Garrett
PODCAST: To hear the interview, visit:
- our Buzzsprout page
- our Apple Podcast page
- our podcasts page
YouTube: To see the video version of this show, please visit our YouTube page at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv-hMFIgWFjof4EJ7L6yyHg
Debbie Behan Garrett's interest in collecting black dolls commenced after the 1991 catalog purchase of a 'collectible' porcelain doll intended as a gift for her daughter. After the doll's arrival, the decision to keep the doll and to begin a collection ensued. Her avid interest in black-doll history prompted research on dolls made during and before her childhood. She began freelance writing in 1998 for Black Doll-E-Gram. Prior to writing her first black-doll reference book, The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls, Hobby House Press, Inc., 2003, Garrett's efforts to connect with other like-minded collectors culminated in founding the WeLoveBlackDolls Yahoo! Group, in January 2001, which is now a private Facebook group. In February 2002, as co-founder and editor of The Black Doll-E-Zine, 'the first and only e-zine devoted to collecting black dolls,' her doll research, writing, and networking with doll collectors and artists continued.
In 2008, Garrett self-published Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion, a full color book which references and values over 1000 black dolls. Her most recent work, The Doll Blogs: When Dolls Speak I Listen, first introduced as an eBook and sold through Google Play, became available as an ultra-limited edition paperback in April 2011. The Doll Blogs is the first book featuring dolls that blog their experiences with their human. Hard copies are now out of print. The electronic versions of Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide and The Doll Blogs remain available through Google Play.
Through an associate membership of Motor City Doll Club, Garrett is also a member of United Federation of Doll Clubs. She has contributed to their Doll News quarterly publication and their 2017 convention souvenir Journal. Garrett's articles have also been published in Doll Castle News, Contemporary Doll Collector, British Doll Showcase, DOLLS magazine, Doll Reader, and Fashion Doll Quarterly. Garrett maintains her personal Black Doll Collecting blog and the Ebony-Essence of Dolls in Black blog where she periodically profiles past and present doll companies, doll artists, and doll collectors.
Garrett, a native Texan, is the married mother of two adult children and doting granny of two boys. In addition to doll collecting, research, and writing, she enjoys living each day as if it were Saturday.
You may follow Debbie's doll journey at via her blog: https://blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com/
PODCAST: To hear the interview, visit:
- our Buzzsprout page
- our Apple Podcast page
- our podcasts page
YouTube: To see the video version of this show, please visit our YouTube page at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv-hMFIgWFjof4EJ7L6yyHg
Debbie Behan Garrett's interest in collecting black dolls commenced after the 1991 catalog purchase of a 'collectible' porcelain doll intended as a gift for her daughter. After the doll's arrival, the decision to keep the doll and to begin a collection ensued. Her avid interest in black-doll history prompted research on dolls made during and before her childhood. She began freelance writing in 1998 for Black Doll-E-Gram. Prior to writing her first black-doll reference book, The Definitive Guide to Collecting Black Dolls, Hobby House Press, Inc., 2003, Garrett's efforts to connect with other like-minded collectors culminated in founding the WeLoveBlackDolls Yahoo! Group, in January 2001, which is now a private Facebook group. In February 2002, as co-founder and editor of The Black Doll-E-Zine, 'the first and only e-zine devoted to collecting black dolls,' her doll research, writing, and networking with doll collectors and artists continued.
In 2008, Garrett self-published Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide to Celebrating, Collecting, and Experiencing the Passion, a full color book which references and values over 1000 black dolls. Her most recent work, The Doll Blogs: When Dolls Speak I Listen, first introduced as an eBook and sold through Google Play, became available as an ultra-limited edition paperback in April 2011. The Doll Blogs is the first book featuring dolls that blog their experiences with their human. Hard copies are now out of print. The electronic versions of Black Dolls: A Comprehensive Guide and The Doll Blogs remain available through Google Play.
Through an associate membership of Motor City Doll Club, Garrett is also a member of United Federation of Doll Clubs. She has contributed to their Doll News quarterly publication and their 2017 convention souvenir Journal. Garrett's articles have also been published in Doll Castle News, Contemporary Doll Collector, British Doll Showcase, DOLLS magazine, Doll Reader, and Fashion Doll Quarterly. Garrett maintains her personal Black Doll Collecting blog and the Ebony-Essence of Dolls in Black blog where she periodically profiles past and present doll companies, doll artists, and doll collectors.
Garrett, a native Texan, is the married mother of two adult children and doting granny of two boys. In addition to doll collecting, research, and writing, she enjoys living each day as if it were Saturday.
You may follow Debbie's doll journey at via her blog: https://blackdollcollecting.blogspot.com/
