ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Strong National Museum of Play unveiled its new Barbie exhibit on Saturday. The exhibit features dolls depicting female trailblazers with the hope of inspiring children to image ...
At the 1959 American International Toy Fair in New York, an 11.5-inch plastic ingénue with improbably bombshell proportions made her debut. In her earliest iteration, Barbie was marketed as a “Teen ...
Just three weeks shy of the Barbie movie’s first anniversary, the Old Davie School Historical Museum reminds us that South Florida is still in its Barbie era. After all, a quick walk down Ocean Drive ...
If you think Barbie is just a pretty doll, a new exhibit at the Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University will change your mind. “Out of the Box: A Barbie Retrospective” opened March 7 and runs ...
She’s keeping fashion on its toes by keeping fashionistas off their tiptoes. In Barbie’s world, real-life glamor girls on-the-go are kicking high heels to the curb, and stepping out in much cozier ...
Carol Spencer didn’t just dress Barbie dolls — she designed the clothes the iconic doll wore for 35 years. When Spencer, now 90, left high school, there were only a handful of jobs available to women: ...
It's been a summer of Barbie, including a movie starring Margot Robbie and a newly re-released book, "The Story of Barbie." AP We really live in a Barbie World now: plastic, fantastic, relentlessly ...
Carol Spencer began working as a designer for Mattel in 1963, where she spent 35 years designing clothes for Barbie dolls before retiring in 1998. Now 90 years old, she has hundreds of dolls whose ...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) announced today its kickoff to celebrate the 65 th anniversary of Barbie and over six decades of breaking down boundaries and inspiring ...