In 1917, the Toledo Museum of Art founder Edward Drummond Libbey spent $30,000 (today, the equivalent of $680,000) on 78 Doucet Dolls from France. A purchase that might even make Kanye West raise an eyebrow, Libbey’s dolls donned the finest couture-quality fabrics from premiere French factories. Technically, Libbey’s dolls aren’t dolls at all— they are “fashion figures”— but the small, meticulously-clothed figurines are beautiful. See them up close, and hear their stories, during Libbey Dolls: Fashioning the Story, opening Friday, October 28. Through February 12.
The Toledo Museum of Art | 2445 Monroe St.
419-255-8000 | toledomuseum.org | Free
