MILK MAGAZINE
VOGUE - September 2010
ShowStudio - In Wolves Clothing
Doll Reader Magazine
Dossier Style Journal
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“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......read more
Kouklitas Invade the Blogosphere
2009 INTERNATIONAL BLACK DOLL SHOW
DAZED DIGITAL
Blushing Muslin Event
EAST VILLAGE BOYS Interview
When I first met Andrew Yang, I thought this interview was going to be about life in New York as a 24 year-old quintessential slash kid - with the model slash dancer slash photographer discussions at the top of my list, along with a healthy focus on the slash gay ex-mormon. Controversy! As we started talking before the interview, I quickly realized that none of it was half as interesting as his burgeoning career as a dollmaker - the ridiculously talented designer and craftsmen of the truly couture fashion rag dolls he calls Kouklitas. It was refreshing to look at a body of work that wasexploring something other than the popular territory of gay identity, gay politics, or hot naked gay boys, (which is saying a lot because you know how we love hot naked gay boys), and wasn’t afraid to make beauty its agenda. A truly original artist and a total rockstar dollmaker. Yeah, I actually just said that. Rockstar dollmaker.
Portraits of Andrew photographed for EVB by Allison Michael Orenstein
Doll convention photography for EVB by David Kimelman
Kouklitas photography by Jessica Yatrofsky
New York Post: B-SCENE
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