This week our guest is Award winning artist and illustrator Mel Odom whose images have graced Time Magazine, Viva, Blueboy, Omni, The New York Times, Playboy, Candy, CBS Records and Rolling Stone.

It was a drawing of a beautiful face that inspired Mel to create a work in three dimensions, a doll and her name is Gene Marshall, and since her launch in 1995 and she has changed the face of fashion doll Collecting.

Gene’s debut at Toy Fair New York in 1995 was a sensation . Her size, fifteen and a half inches, her back story as an actress during Hollywood’s golden age and her glamorous wardrobe made her the most important fashion doll since Barbie Doll.

During her career she acquired a handsome leading man, a host of friends and an arch rival Hollywood diva Madra Lord. Gene even had her own celebrity biography Gene Marshall Girl Star.   

In our interview Mel shares the story of Gene, his love of black and white movies and the vintage fashions that influenced Gene’s story. We also discuss his many other projects in art,  illustration and designer fashion.
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