On Saturday, December 27, 2014, tune in to hear from designing woman, Stacey McBride-Irby, creator of Prettie Girls Multicultural Dolls. Prettie Girls Dolls are now available at retailers around the country and online and have been a hit with girls long before the Christmas buying season started.
After designing for an international toy company for nearly two decades and launching the successful So In Style Dolls, Stacey took a leap of faith and decided to start her own line, One World Doll Project. Stacey created Prettie Girls to celebrate global diversity. Stacey McBride-Irby and the Prettie Girls have feature been in the media throughout the year as the popularity of the dolls caught fire.
Tune in to hear Stacey McBride-Irby share her inspiring story and hear what is in store for doll lovers, old and young, alike in 2015.
More About Stacey McBride-Irby
As a child Stacey consistently played with dolls. Barbie was her favorite. She loved mixing and matching her clothes, and styling her hair. Not long after Stacey stopped playing with Barbie™ dolls at the age of 13, she made the decision to enter the fashion world. She started sketching fashion and going to the library and checking out books about fashion.
Stacey’s father had saved a newspaper
article that featured Kitty Black Perkins, a Mattel™ designer. With the
encouragement of her father and her instructor of a fashion computer
course at El Camino College, Stacey called Perkins. In addition to
showing her portfolio and resume during the interview, Stacey had to
design a Barbie™ fashion. It was approved and she was hired as an
assistant designer which begin her career in the world of toys and doll
design.
Stacey was a Project Designer for
Mattel™ in El Segundo and was with the company for 15 years. She is the
creator of the So In Style™ line of African-American Barbie™ dolls
which were released in 2009. While at Mattell, Stacey was tapped to
design the sorority Barbie, Celebrating the Centennial year of Alpha
Kappa Alpha, the first African-American Greek Sorority, founded in 1908
at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She designed a one of a kind
take on the 1980’s Black Barbie. She also designed some of the 2010
Barbie career dolls, including Pet Vet Barbie, Rock Star Barbie and
Bride Barbie.
Stacey has been interviewed for
magazines and newspaper articles such as Ebony, Essence, Heart &
Soul, LA’s Beauty Beat, Upscale, Chicago Sun Times and Daily Breeze.
Stacey McBride-Irby made the front cover of Wall Street Journal Personal
newspaper. The So In Style TM dolls have been featured in Barbie and Jet magazine.
Stacey has appeared on CNN Prime News
with Richelle Carey “New Barbies Look More Like Black Women”. And on
May 2, 2010 Stacey appeared on BETs My Black is Beautiful, Episode 1:
Celebration of Black Beauty. She is currently a featured designer in
the Barbie Exhibit at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.
Stacey’s motto is, “A happy, inspired
childhood creates happy, inspired and powerful women.” She also loves
the Lord with all her heart. She knows that without God that none of
her accomplishments and success would be possible
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