Beauregard Houston-Montgomery

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 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.

References

  1. ^ a b c New York Media, LLC (March 9, 1987). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC. pp. 40–. ISSN 0028-7369. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  2. ^ David Stenn (August 1, 1988). Clara Bow: runnin' wild. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-24125-0. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  3. ^ Here Publishing (November 9, 1999). The Advocate. Here Publishing. pp. 54–. ISSN 0001-8996. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  4. ^ M. G. Lord (1995). Forever Barbie: the unauthorized biography of a real doll. Avon Books. ISBN 978-0-380-72049-1. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  5. ^ Gross, Michael (February 7, 1986). "THE DOWNTOWN PRESS: 4 IRREVERENT JOURNALS". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 13, 2025.
  6. ^ Houston-Montgomery, Beauregard (July 1986). "Travilla". Interview. 16 (7): 100–102.
  7. ^ Houston-Montgomery, Beauregard (December 1986). "Kim Novak". Interview. 16 (12): 90.
  8. ^ Houston-Montgomery, Beauregard. "Saints and Spinners | Vanity Fair". Vanity Fair | The Complete Archive. Retrieved June 13, 2025.
  9. ^ a b Toni Schlesinger (March 9, 2006). Five Flights Up and Other New York Apartment Stories. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-1-56898-585-5. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
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