Always one for innovation, MacKenzie-Childs has been known to doll up its hero products in a vast variety of designs to suit every last stylistic preference.
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Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
17 July 2025
Toddler girl wearing striped shorts and vest set propping her baby doll up against a wall to take a photo.
The markets react, the politicians preen, and most Americans go about their day trying to just get to the weekend around the corner.
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Philip Elliott,
Time,
6 Aug. 2025
Adding a meta layer, when Brazilians see their compatriots act out this complex, preening for attention, this triggers even more chagrin about being Brazilian.
For the magazine’s seventy-fifth anniversary, in 2000, the dog-loving portraitist William Wegman dressed up one of his Weimaraners as Eustace Tilley, our dandyish mascot, originally drawn by Rea Irvin.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Right outside our little show room with thin walls, there are 50 to 60 people dressed up as sexy vampires — leather, spikes, fangs, lipstick, nets.
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