You do not need to be a Barbie fan to enjoy the Design Museum’s latest exhibition, which marks the doll’s 65th birthday (she’s looking really good for her age, by the way). This major new show takes a ...

Halle Berry channeled her inner Barbie for her 57th birthday. The Oscar winner visited World of Barbie in Santa Monica, Calif., with her boyfriend, Van Hunt, and 15-year-old daughter, Nahla, who ...

Barbie was invented in 1959 by businesswoman Ruth Handler who saw her daughter Barbara — the inspiration for the name — playing with paper dolls and wanted to create a doll for her.

The history of Barbie will be explored in a new exhibition coming to the Design Museum next year to mark the 65th anniversary of the world-famous doll. Through a partnership with toy company ...

Barbie Dreamhouses on show in the exhibition. Jo Underhill for the Design Museum. Further highlights of her Dreamhouses include her mid-century A-Frame Dreamhouse (1978), inspired by the designs ...

Barbie's been beloved by kids and debated by adults. At 66 years old, she's changed and evolved right along with our culture. Here's a look back.

1981 Dreamhouse. Image Courtesy of Mattel. At the end of the 1970s, most Americans had fully subscribed to the perfect cookie-cutter suburban life, and Barbie was no exception.

Bill Greening is the principal designer for Barbie Signature at Mattel Toys. Not only does he create the famous doll, but he has also been collecting Barbie since 1988 – a large number of them ...

A Barbie exhibition is coming to the Design Museum next year. ... I am delighted that we can announce that we’re planning to mark Barbie’s 65th birthday with a major exhibition. ...

Its design was deliberately skewed with everything pushed out of shape and out of order,” she says. And like the rest of the Barbie houses, Weird Barbie did have a pool, but it wasn’t shown.

This summer’s biggest exhibition at the Design Museum features 180 versions of Barbie, including one that grows breasts. Go to the content Go to the footer. No thanks. Subscribe.