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Thousands of people are going viral for sharing their AI-generated Barbie dolls under the hashtag #aibarbie. Here’s ...
T he world’s most famous doll is getting her own exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center this spring and summer. Featuring ...
There’s More to That is a production of Smithsonian magazine and PRX Productions. From the magazine, our team is Chris Klimek, Debra Rosenberg and Brian Wolly.
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 ...
In 1997, Mattel decided to give Barbie a more realistic figure and made her ... contributing writer and assistant editor at Honeysuckle Magazine, where she covered racial politics and cannabis ...
It’s not just a question of what would this fabric do with this pink? It’s more conceptual conversations. But then of course, Barbie is what she wears, what she does. If she’s a Barbie doctor, she ...
Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, HelloGiggles, Reader's Digest and more. Mattel Inc.; Chesnot/Getty Happy birthday, Barbie! Barbara Millicent Roberts — who we all know as Barbie ...
Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she ...