Formal wear Barbie & Ken are posed together in front of a toy closet on Dec. 15, 1964. Charlotte Johnson, director of fashion for the highly successful Barbie doll, who is photographed here with a ...

Inside the biggest change in barbie’s 57-year history–and what it says about American beauty ideals Part 1 Barbie’s dress won’t fit. I’m sitting in a bright pink room at Mattel’s ...

T he world’s most famous doll is getting her own exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center this spring and summer. Featuring ...

By 1963, feminists were protesting the improbably-curvy doll’s body and sexualized origins. Find out more Barbie secrets—like ...

Retailers like Walmart refused to sell the doll, which was eventually discontinued in 2005. In another major development, Barbie and Ken could not escape the early aughts scourge of celebrity ...

Ken was introduced as her love interest in ... shoppers could buy either a blonde or brunette version of the doll. Barbie was invented by American business woman, and mother, Ruth Handler.

Those early Black dolls by Mattel, however, were only "accessories" to Barbie herself, Kitty Black Perkins, a former doll designer at Mattel tells PEOPLE exclusively, much like how Ken is still ...

She's Barbie: The doll that's launched the imaginations of ... the nature of her relationship with Ken is, well, complicated. Ken (full name: Kenneth Sean Carson) arrived on the scene in 1961 ...

in the Barbie world." More recently, the doll's life and interaction with Ken was the subject of the "Barbie" movie in 2023 starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.

“While we are approaching the Barbie doll in a scholarly way by examining ... dolls from local collectors and a handsome selection of Ken dolls that reference the Barbie movie with a beach ...

HMD Global has launched the HMD Barbie Phone in India, a retro flip phone created in partnership with Mattel. Originally ...

it's true that Barbie has influenced generations of girls and women since the doll first debuted on March 9, 1959. 'It's Barbie's birthday': A look into Barbie's influence 66 years after doll ...