noticed her daughter and her friends were more interested in the paper dolls that resembled adult women than they were in the baby dolls popular at the time. Handler saw Barbie as a way for girls ...

The only ‘grown-up’ fashion dolls available were made of paper - and so Barbie was born in the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin, USA, with the intention of showing Barbara and other ...

The inspiration for Barbie came from an observation Ruth Handler made while watching her daughter, Barbara, play with paper ...

One of the year's most highly anticipated films is Greta Gerwig's live-action "Barbie," out on July 21. Starring Margot Robbie as Barbie, the movie promises to bring the iconic doll and her world ...

Barbie is 65 years old this year – confusing ... But Handler knew from her own daughter’s love of paper dolls that “little girls just want to be bigger girls”, and she set about creating ...

Created in 1959 by Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel with her husband Elliot Handler, Barbie was inspired by “watching their daughter play with make-believe paper dolls of adult women”.