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Chemirik's work?handcrafted in Paris?is for "women with character" who "are looking for something out of the ordinary." He's pleased if a client likes a piece. "If not, I've gleaned enough about women's taste to know that someone else will," he says.
But Horvath's mother started to worry and persuaded him to show his drawings of what were to become Uglydolls to a major toy company (he's mum about which one). "They flat out told me none of my characters could translate into anything," he says. Frustrated, that night he...
Horvath was so thrilled that the day he received the doll, he carried it around with him and at one point ran into his friend Nakamura. "It was original and simple in a time when handmade plush dolls were too ornate and craftlike," says the Giant Robot owner. "The prototype...
Seok-hee Lee, product manager for MoMA Retail, which has sold 3,500 of the dolls since January, thinks they're here to stay. "The more you get to know each character, the more you get attached," she says. As for Nakamura, he still displays the dolls in his storefront...
Three-hundred-and-seventy years ago, Harvard opened up its first buildings in an area surrounded by wood yards and cows. Today, the University is one of the largest landowners in the Square—a disturbing fact to some of its business neighbors. An entire row of Mass. Ave...