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Mattel has modeled Barbie dolls after trailblazing activists, athletes, and celebrities. Barbie's Inspiring Women series includes Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, and Frida Kahlo.
Long before the Shani line debuted in stores, Mattel had already been making African American fashion dolls for 24 years, with their first black doll being the Colored Francie doll from 1967, and then Barbie's friends Christie and Julia (the latter being based on the hit TV series of the same name), released in 1968 and 1969 respectively.
Ruth Marianna Handler (née Mosko; November 4, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was an American business magnate and inventor.She is best known for inventing the Barbie doll in 1959 [2] and being co-founder of toy manufacturer Mattel with her husband Elliot, as well as serving as the company's first president from 1945 to 1975.
Black Barbie: A Documentary is a 2023 American documentary film about the creation of the first black Barbie doll in 1980. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film is directed, written, and produced by Lagueria Davis . The film premiered at the 2023 South by Southwest film festival [ 4 ] and was released on Netflix on June 19, 2024.
A behind-the-scenes video posted to YouTube Aug. 21. shows how Gosling's "I'm Just Ken" — the "Barbie" movie power ballad that's become a summertime hit — came together. "I'm just Ken.
Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for more than fifty years. Paris-made fashion dolls from the Théâtre de la Mode (1946) on display at the Maryhill Museum of Art. Many fashion doll lines have been inspired by Barbie, or launched as alternatives to Barbie. Tammy was created by the Ideal Toy Company in 1962. [21]
Dee Williams, a 19-year-old doll collector and photographer who goes by "Dolly Comics" on social media, tells Yahoo Life just how playing with Barbie and Bratz dolls impacted her understanding of ...