Robert Tonner’s Edith Head dolls

Tonner’s lifelong interest in fashion and the movies was greatly influenced by Edith Head. “Movies were a great escape for me as a child and one of the reasons for that was the glamour and sophistication of the costumes on the big screen. Edith Head was one of my all-time favorite designers. Her clothing always stood out as classic glamour in the midst of glitz and sparkle.”

The collaboration with Knickerbocker Toys to produce the Edith Head dolls was, in 1998, fairly early on in his doll-making career – well ahead of the Tonner Doll Company, and his famous muse, Tyler Wentworth. However, there is something about the sculpts of these Edith Head dolls that presages the look of Tyler, albeit in porcelain as opposed to vinyl.

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