Conner Ives’s “Protect the Dolls” T-shirt has become a sensation after the designer wore it during his runway show, with more ...

Worn by stars like Pedro Pascal and Troye Sivan, Conner Ives’s “Protect the Dolls” tee is a well-meaning statement that ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she ...

He grabbed a white T-shirt from a pile of deadstock and used heat-transfer paper to print a slogan that described what he was feeling at the moment: “Protect the Dolls.” The whole process took ...

grabbed some transfer paper, and within 15 minutes had made himself a shirt that read, “PROTECT THE DOLLS.” The “dolls” he was referring to were trans women. “It was a phrase that felt ...