Fashion Week is supposed to be the epitome of fun. However, while frantically sprinting through snowstorms to get from one show to the next, working on crazy deadlines and absorbing the sometimes approving, sometimes irritating glares from peers judging our front-row (and occasionally standing-room) ensembles, we forget how much fun it can be. Or at least, I do. But after finally getting a cab during last week’s snowpocalypse part deux and arriving at Envoy Enterprises for The Block magazine’s haute rag doll presentation, I was quickly reminded of what I love about fashion’s fantastic frivolities.

Lining the gallery’s walls were ten impeccably and hilariously styled dolls, each of which represented looks from a S/S10 collection. Created by avid doll collector and former Proenza Schouler employee Andrew Yang, the dolls stared with wide, hand-painted eyes and pouty, pursed lips. Yang went to such extremes as sourcing the same fabrics that featured designers like Katie Eary, Givenchy, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh and Ann Demeulemeester used in their actual collections. The Lanvin doll’s poufy pink frock stood out, as did Little Miss Marc Jacobs’ woven silver jacket. From its pastel purple hair to its feathered skirt, the Proenza Schouler look was top-notch, but my unequivocal favorite was the Comme des Garçons duo. Their delicately draped polka dot garments and cotton candy coiffures were the spitting image of those on Rei Kawakubo’s spring runway.

“I didn’t recreate the looks exactly because it’s been done before, so I tried to bring them into my aesthetic, which is this really soft, pretty frilly doll. On some of the dolls, leather straps were turned into ribbon, and there were some ruffles that I made more ruffley. I made the hair bigger and everything’s just a little more doll-like,” explained Yang, who began his doll-making career with what Block Editor-in-Chief Susan Locht described as “creepy but youthful” Kouklita dolls. She was so obsessed with these early creations that she commissioned the young artist to design the ten mini mannequins for a six-page fashion spread in the magazine’s current issue.

Styled with the help of James Worthington, Yang’s quirky interpretations were a welcome reminder of what great fun fashion can be, and judging by their impish expressions, the dolls were having nothing short of a fantastic Fashion Week.

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