The Traveling Doll Pants is an international project connecting doll photographers and enthusiasts from all over the world. This project's idea is based on Ann Brashares's book, titled The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and the 2005 movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ken Kwapis and Warner Brothers Picture. The project is the brainchild of Brazilian doll collector Patricia Marcos Coutsoucos (@dressthatdoll) and Polish doll photographer Izabela Kwella (@bella_belladoll).

The goal is to show 11½ inch dolls (Barbie, Integrity Toys) wearing the same pair of pants in different countries, presenting interesting places where the doll collectors live. Joanna Fila-Staskiewicz (@kameliadolls) created a pair of pants for this project. Like in the bookend movie, the pants travel all over the world from one participant to the other. Each featured participant takes as many pictures of their city within a time frame of three weeks, showing their part of the world. In the first edition of the Traveling Doll Pants, held in 2020, the participants encountered pandemic lockdowns and yet the pants still managed to travel from Poland to Germany, Russia, Finland, Canada, USA and Brazil. During a time when global travel was incredibly restricted, this project has become a virtual, visual way of satisfying one's wanderlust. The Traveling Doll Pants project continues in 2021.

Map below shows all countries the pants will travel to. Current position is marked with .

Traveling Doll Pants is an international project connecting doll photographers from all over the world.

In 2020 the traveling doll pants visited:

In 2021 the traveling doll pants will visit:

Location: Gdansk / Poland

Izabela Kwella & Justyna Kowalewska - twin sisters from Poland. They live in the beautiful city of Gdansk. Daily, sisters work together as retail architects, but they develop their creative hobby in their spare time. Girls have always been interested in photography, but their adventure with toy photography started in 2016. It turned out to be their huge passion. In October 2018, some of their photos took part in two toy photography exhibitions organized in Shanghai by a Wonder Factory group from Singapore. In October 2020, they had an exhibition 'Doll in the city' for Rivierasztuki , Gdynia, Poland.

Location: Berlin / Germany

Franzi is based in Berlin, Germany, and works in advertising and marketing. She has run her Instagram account la_doll_cevita since July 2017. The channel shows her favorite dolls and miniatures on a 1:6 scale. She owns several real-life looking rooms with a variety of modern furniture and accessories. Almost all furniture is self-designed and built. Besides doll photography, she has a big passion for crafting and making small tutorials for her followers.

Location: Krasnodar / Russia

Nadya's passion for dolls began with the hobby of her daughter Dasha. At first, they were collecting dolls. In 2017 Nadya started photographing them. In 2018, she started her profile on Instagram and was amazed by the number of adult dolls collectors worldwide. She has been related to portrait photography for many years. She wrote articles for needlework magazines and created online art lessons, crafting, and scrapbooking. Nowadays, She is completely immersed in the miniature world. Nadya loves to sew realistic modern clothes for dolls, create tiny decor, and dioramas. She writes stories about dolls and gets a lot of pleasure from it.

Location: Turku / Finland

Henna lives in Turku, Finland, and She is the youngest participant of this project. She has always loved dolls and photography. Her grandparents and her dad are the biggest inspiration for her. Her main doll character - Ellie, was created by accident. A few years ago, Henna had an idea to take some realistic outdoor photos of barbie. She took out of the box her old doll, and it became her Ellie doll. Henna created her Instagram account in October 2016. She started developing Ellie's story back then, and she has been enjoying it since that time. Henna sews clothes for her dolls and collects miniatures as well. She says: "Thanks to this hobby, I am familiar now with different cultures and got awesome friends around the world through this hobby. I love to take photos of Ellie doll and show my beautiful city Turku, the oldest town in Finland ".

Location: Calgary / Canada

Joanna had a big passion for photography since she was a small girl, but an adventure with toy photography she had started not even one year ago when she opened her Instagram account. She enjoys taking pictures of her models on a 1:6 scale. Joanna loves fashion and draws inspiration for her photos. Her other hobbies are traveling, swimming and cooking. She loves exploring new countries, trying new food, and learning about other cultures.

Location: Connecticut / USA

Staci discovered the world of Toy photography, quite by accident in 2014,when she discovered Instagram had a thriving community of toy collectors and photographers.
In 2016 she fell in love with photography almost as much as dolls and spent many, many hours, teaching herself photography. In 2017 she purchased her first DSL camera and never looked back!
Over the past few years she had the opportunity to work as an influencer or Freelance photographer for toy companies all over the world. She enjoys taking dreamy portraits and creating fantasy worlds for her tiny models.

Location: Michigan / USA

Julia is a graphic and web designer based in southeast Michigan. On a whim, she created an Instagram account for her mini-me doll in late 2015, after rediscovering Barbies as an adult. Her goal was to create a realistic miniature world for her doll, which expanded into building 1:6 scale dioramas, crafting miniature versions of everyday items and spending lots of time behind the camera. In 2018 her work was featured in The New York Times.

Location: California / USA

Tonya Ruiz is a Grandma from Southern California. As a teenage fashion model, she was in front of the camera. Tonya soon found that she had a love for photography and enjoyed being behind the camera. In 2017, she started a Barbie Instagram that went viral and she has been featured internationally in the press. She enjoys including realistic miniatures, dolls and nostalgic things in her photos.

Location: Sao Paulo / Brazil

Patricia has been running her Instagram account since 2015. She is a Civil Engineer and Fashion Designer, so building dioramas and dressing dolls express her passion for both areas. Patricia is a craft person. She loves photography and traveling. This hobby seems to be the perfect for her.

She has created a small business out of it, handcrafting beddings and other miniatures for dollhouses and dioramas on a 1/6 scale. Patricia says: "For me, the most important thing is that with my account, I had the pleasure of knowing people with the same passion all over the world. Traveling Doll Pants project was just possible due to the collaboration among the amazing people in this doll community, and so far, it has been a wonderful experience."

Location: Sao Paulo / Brazil

Rodrigo Menchaao has been a dollstagrammer since October 2014. He has a fashion design background and works as a clothes designer for dolls. He enjoys cooking for his friends and watching movies when he's not styling and photographing dolls. His main doll, Leah, is a blogger who loves exploring cities, so Rodrigo's photos have a very urban edge to them.

Location: Machida City, Tokyo / Japan

Jona Okiyama has been photographing dolls for her Instagram page since September 2017. Until February 2021, she juggled this hobby with a full-time corporate job, travel, crafting, gaming, and watching movies and TV series. She has just shifted to part-time work in order to focus on family life.

Location: Sydney, Australia

Based in Sydney, Chiquit Brammall is an architecture-trained design journalist who is transitioning to a career in education because of the pandemic. During this time, she also began crafting, photographing, and posting as @dolls.of.sydney as a creative outlet. She weaves her Filipino roots and Singapore experience into her Australian narrative, adding a multicultural flavor to her posts. She can't wait to photograph the Traveling Doll Pants at the Sydney Opera House, where she and her husband have performed as choristers with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.

Location: Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Karen Andrews was born in England and moved to Canada with her family when she was five years old. She now has two adult children and is a social worker at a children's developmental treatment and rehabilitation center. She is passionate about photography, with doll photography being her primary genre. Karen also enjoys hikes and building doll dioramas with her partner.

Location: New York, USA

Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Luciana brings a Brazilian flair to her glamorous New York City posts. She has lived in the USA for over 13 years, balancing her day job with the magical busyness of NYC culture - which was, until the pandemic, chock full of live concerts, museum visits, art exhibitions, and meet-ups with friends. Currently working from home, Luciana is enjoying the company of her husband and dog.

Location: New York, USA

Sumona Mukherjee, originally from India, is a computer science engineer who enjoys exploring new places and cuisines with her husband. She plans to photograph her dolls in her favorite places in New York City and New Jersey.

Our travelingdollpants project was mentioned in several articles. You can find links below.

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Join us in the #travelingdollpants project. We would like to know more about places where dolls photographers, collectors, and enthusiasts come from. Dress up your doll in a pair of denim pants, go outside and take photos in the best places in your city.
To join, post your pictures on Instagram using #travelingdollpants. While pandemic of Coronavirus last and staying home is mandatory, you can join us also, use #stayathomedollpants, just remember to dress your doll in denim pants.