About us
Stacey consults entrepreneurs and companies with their toy design needs while speaking and empowering women to follow their dreams.
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Speaking and Empowering Workshops
Stacey enjoys creating, speaking and providing workshops as she engages clients' life experiences through her dolls. She encourages them to embrace their unique beauty while following their dreams and offers a reflection of someone who looks like themselves.
Toy/Doll Design Services
Do you have a dream to bring your product to life? Let Stacey Art Direct your custom doll project (like the one's created for Fox TV's The Real hosts), ie: animation or book characters, licensed or corporate brands with preliminary support and manufacturing/production from the industry's best!
Snapshot of the journey...
Supporting Publications:
- Wall Street Journal Personal Newspaper - Front cover.
- Daily Breeze and Chicago Sun Times – So In Style Doll Highlights
- The WAVE Newspaper – Black Doll Exhibit
- Beauty Magazine Features - Ebony, Essence, Jet, Heart & Soul, LA’s Beauty Beat, Upscale and Barbie Magazine
Featured Barbie Exhibit Designer:
- The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
- William Grant Still Arts Center of Los Angeles
Design Highlights:
2009 - The So In Style™ line of African-American Barbie® dolls.
2010 - Barbie® career dolls including Pet Vet Barbie®, Rock Star Barbie® and Bride Barbie®.
2011 - Co-founded the One World Doll Project. Diverse dolls of many cultural backgrounds.
2013 - Prettie Girls!™ - The term “Prettie” stands for Positive, Respectful, Enthusiastic, Truthful, Talented, Inspiring, and Excellent. These are multi-cultural fashion dolls, capturing the essence of positive attributes that anyone can embrace.
2015 - Prettie Girls!™ debuted on the shelves in Walmart stores, Walmart.com and ToysRUs.com.
2018 - Founded McIrby, ent, Introducing, IamU, Uniquely Beautiful Dolls.
Radio, Television and Live Interviews:
- Appeared on BETs My Black is Beautiful, Episode 1: Celebration of Black Beauty
- The Real - TV hostesses were presented with their very own Prettie Girls!™ Dolls
- Live on News One Now with Roland Martin - Prettie Girls!™ Multi-Cultural dolls
- CNN Prime News - With Richelle Carey “New Barbie’s Look More Like Black Women”.
- NPR - With Michel Martin Mattel’s So In Style, African American Barbie’s
- 94.7 The Wave with Pat Prescott - Prettie Girls!™ Multi-Cultural dolls featuring the Cynthia Bailey Doll from Bravo TV’s Hit Series, Housewives of Atlanta.
The Real
One of my favorite moments…I loved working on these personalized dolls to present to these beautiful ladies on @therealdaytime Love them!