Office Magazine “Deiondre’s Dollhouse”

Stylist: Alon Cameron

Inside Deiondre's Dollhouse, we play dress-up, tap around, and become a Black doll in her own home. We interact in a pretend world Ragan, and our sisters, never saw in the childhood of a young Black girl. The feeling of freedom—a Black doll who has this doll house all to herself, free to take up space in each room, by herself, however she wants to. From quaint, to elegant, to punk, to a mixture of all three, the exploration of wig and costume gives her, and all of us, the freedom to just be. 

In each room of the dollhouse, from bedroom to kitchen, we recollect the pieces of ourselves, the memory of mirrors, corded phones, and newspapers, to pick up where we left off. Within the photographs of Deiondre's Dollhouse, we can revisit our childhood home with a new freedom to play upon the actualization—every girl wants to be a doll.