Barbie’s ‘Inspiring Women’ series has added Dr. Jane Goodall to the line-up

3 weeks ago

Looking To Gift A Doll That Isn't A Blonde Barbie? These Ones Stand Out

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5 months ago

Mattel launches Barbie for visually impaired people. It comes with cane, braille packaging

Hindustan Times

Barbie, introduced by Mattel in 1959, has been a beloved companion to millions of children across the world. The iconic doll’s creator has now taken a significant step towards inclusivity by introducing its first-ever blind Barbie doll that comes in braille packaging. “In partnership with AFB, Barbie proudly introduces the first Blind Barbie Fashionista doll, developed to authentically represent blind …

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5 months ago

First-Ever Blind Barbie Comes With Cane, Braille Box And Textured Clothes

News 18

US toymaker Mattel has introduced its first-ever blind Barbie. To accurately represent individuals with blindness or low vision and to maintain the doll’s accessibility, her eye gaze is directed “slightly upwards and outward.” To enable children with limited vision or blindness to feel the clothes on this Barbie doll, Mattel has included textured clothing with the doll. Additionally, Barbie has …

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5 months ago

Mattel unveils first-ever blind Barbie with cane, braille packaging, and textured clothes

India TV News

Introduced by Mattel in 1959, Barbie has been a cherished toy for millions of children globally. The iconic doll's creator has now made a notable stride towards inclusivity by launching its first-ever blind Barbie doll, packaged with braille. In collaboration with the American Foundation for the Blind, Mattel meticulously designed every aspect of the doll, from its appearance to its …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Shania Twain is honored with her own Barbie doll modeled after her classic 1999's music video to celebrate International Women's Day

Daily Mail

Shania Twain isn't impressed by many things - except for her own Barbie doll. The superstar, 58, is among eight female global role models who have been honored with their dolls to celebrate International Women's Day The Canadian icon looked delighted as she posed with her Barbie, which is styled after her looks from the 1999's classic 'Man! The global …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Kylie Minogue channels her inner Barbie in a stylish pink boiler suit as she poses with her very own doll to celebrate International Women's Day

Daily Mail

Kylie Minogue channeled her inner Barbie in a stylish pink boiler suit as she picked up her one-of-a-kind doll. Kylie Minogue, 55, channeled her inner Barbie in a stylish pink boiler suit as she picked up her one-of-a-kind doll Barbie has honoured Kylie and seven other A-listers with their very own doll to show a gesture of gratitude ahead of …

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10 months ago

Dressing Barbie was always the best part. Just ask costume designer Jacqueline Durran

LA Times

“Weird Barbie could have been in rags or in a crazy costume that was just pieces of things put together,” says costume designer Jacqueline Durran. After “Barbie” came out, Mattel sent costume designer Jacqueline Durran a box filled with its new collection of dolls, each wearing clothes based on her designs for the movie. “I didn’t really question wanting to …

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1 year ago

‘Barbie’s’ influence hasn’t slowed down. Pink Crocs and gender equality, anyone?

LA Times

One of the earlier images released of Margot Robbie as Barbie before the film premiered in July and went on to create a lifestyle sensation. The trailer promised that “if you love Barbie,” and “if you hate Barbie,” then “this movie is for you.” For those put off by Stereotypical Barbie’s straight blond hair, white skin and impossible figure, the …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Pop culture inspiration! From Martha Stewart's SI cover to Rihanna's halftime show, a roundup of 2023's most iconic moments that make for great Halloween costumes

Daily Mail

Taylor Swift concertgoers can repurpose their concert looks for the ultimate group costume Halloween is around the corner. Save yourself some time and money and repurpose your concert looks Announce you're expecting à la Rihanna Rihanna‘s Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show was the most-watched halftime show in history! At 81, culinary queen Martha Stewart made headlines as the oldest model …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Barbie movie merchandise: From Barbie dolls to a Zara collaboration

The Independent

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1 year, 4 months ago

Mattel launches Weird Barbie doll based on Barbie The Movie

The Independent

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1 year, 4 months ago

A love letter to Weird Barbie

LA Times

Dear Weird Barbie, I’ve seen videos of what the others look like. As someone who never really felt like they knew how to play with dolls “correctly,” Barbie seemed untouchable to me. You, Weird Barbie, gave Barbie — gave me — permission to be all of the things she isn’t: off-putting, awkward, a hodgepodge of colors and feelings that some …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Plastic-free Barbie was a hoax, but pollution from the iconic doll is real

LA Times

Environmental activists have seized on the hit movie “Barbie” as a way to spark a broader conversation about plastic pollution. On the heels of Mattel Films’ blockbuster “Barbie” movie, the company has been taking heavy criticism over the toy’s environmental footprint. They also touted a new line of “Ecowarrior” Barbie dolls that were modeled after prominent environmental advocates including Thunberg …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Meet the woman with the world's largest Barbie doll collection

Hindustan Times

Did you have a collection of Barbie dolls when you were younger? Her love for Barbie has earned her the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of Barbie dolls, a title she has held since 2005. In addition to collecting dolls, Dorfmann also writes books about Barbie and has a “doll hospital” where she repairs dolls for others. Guinness …

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1 year, 4 months ago

We’re Living in a Two-Barbie System

Slate

Welcome to the glittering, pink dawn of our post-Barbie landscape. The editor in chief of Human Events called the movie “an anti-motherhood, man-hating tangle of daddy issues.” A critic for the Wall Street Journal said the script was “like a grumpier-than-average women’s studies seminar.” For the New York Post, Piers Morgan declared: “If I made a movie that treated women …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Why I'm passing on the "Barbie" movie: My daughter already receives enough unintentional whiteness

Salon

My three-year-old daughter screamed "Barbie"! I've been an Issa Rae fan since the "Awkward Black Girl" web series days; as a matter of fact, I may have watched HBO's "Insecure" more times than her, so I was beyond excited. It's wild that the first Barbie doll dropped in 1959, and even though Black people were everywhere, we didn't get a …

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1 year, 4 months ago

A new MCU looms: "Barbie" unleashes the overkill that is the Mattel Cinematic Universe

Salon

"Barbie" is a hit. Naturally, Mattel CEO, Ynon Kreiz, told Variety the toy company has 14 projects lined up for development, including "Barney," "Polly Pocket," "Hot Wheels," "UNO," "Thomas and Friends," "American Girl" and many more. A "Barney" movie starring one of my favorite actors doesn't entirely sound like it's calling my name even though Kaluuya is the clear selling …

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1 year, 4 months ago

How watching ‘Barbie’ with my teenage daughter helped us both

Live Mint

I took my daughter to see Barbie last weekend. Unless you are living in a plastic box, there is no way you could have escaped the marketing campaign of Barbie, the brand-new movie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, and directed by Greta Gerwig. Despite my family’s long history with the Barbie—as an adolescent, I got Barbie when she first …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie makes her big screen debut to much acclaim

China Daily

The movie Barbie has been released in China since July 21. Sixty-four years after the first Barbie toy was launched in the United States, a live-action movie is bringing the famous doll to life on the big screen. Barbie, the fantasy comedy which stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, simultaneously opened across China and North America on July 21, receiving …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie review: A near-miraculous achievement from Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Gerwig’s movie begins by playing a brilliant trick on its audience: …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie, review: Ryan Gosling steals the show in the most improbable triumph of the year

The Telegraph

Anthropologists believe there may be tribes living in the farthest reaches of the Amazon basin who have yet to catch sight of the marketing campaign for the new Barbie film, but for the rest of us the damn thing has been melting our eyeballs for weeks. So it’s an unexpected pleasure to report that Greta Gerwig’s film – while still …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Photos: See the L.A. Barbies (and Kens) out in force at the movies this weekend

LA Times

The proof is in the box-office pudding: “Barbenheimer” is a bona fide phenomenon. Jasmine Vaughn Perrett, 27, poses for a portrait dressed as Barbie outside the AMC Century City movie theater Friday. TChaka Cumberbatch, 36, poses for a portrait Friday while dressed as Barbie outside the AMC Century City movie theater. A group of friends dressed up for “Barbie” at …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘Barbie’ review: A sweet, safe satire

Live Mint

In Věra Chytilová’s Daisies, Marie I and Marie II, two women introduced as human-size marionettes, commit to anarchy. Sent to Weird Barbie for counsel, she’s told she must travel to the real world and track down the Barbie owner responsible for her blues. The owner she's looking for, an angsty tween named Sasha, has long since given up playing with …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘Barbie’ movie review: Pastel, plastic, and adorably savage

The Hindu

Movies have to be fun and entertaining, and also blow our minds out with equal parts of thought-provoking questions and effects, acting, writing and sound. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie does all that and more, offering a 114-minute thrill ride filled with gorgeous eye candy, sharp costumes, spectacular writing, astounding performances and peppy songs. Barbie Director: Greta Gerwig Starring: Margot Robbie, Ryan …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie review: Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig's visual confection plays a little too much like an advertisement

ABC

Traditional tentpoles just aren't cashing in anymore. Interview: Greta Gerwig on RN's The Screen Show Photo shows The director Greta Gerwig, actors Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in cowgirl/boy outfits all standing and laughing At the centre of it all is Stereotypical Barbie, who wakes each morning to a cheery chorus of greetings from her peers. Barbie's world is crumbling: …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Movie Review: She’s Perfect Barbie. He’s Scene-Stealing Ken. Their life in plastic looks fantastic

Associated Press

For someone who’s 11.5 inches tall and weighs under 8 ounces, poor Barbie’s had to carry an awfully heavy load over the years on that slender, plastic back of hers. This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Margot Robbie in a scene from “Barbie.” In any case, boy — or should we say, girl — life in plastic looks …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘Barbenheimer’: Why the ‘Barbie’ vs ‘Oppenhemier’ phenomenon is a movie event for the ages

The Hindu

The Queen of Dreams meets the Lord of Death this Friday. “Barbie’s aesthetics have gone into the construction of garments, and I believe that when it comes to influence, even the skater skirt can be traced back to Barbie.” Meanwhile, fashion designer Archana Rao says her journey started with styling Barbie dolls. “With Gerwig’s film, it’s about why a film …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie film review: The excellent ‘Barbie’ is a surprisingly cerebral movie

Live Mint

Barbie film review: Crying occupies more space than you might expect in director Greta Gerwig's highly anticipated Barbie, a movie preoccupied with mortality and the general pain of being a human—specifically a woman—in an imperfect world. At the center of Gerwig's exploration: Margot Robbie's Barbie, a version of the famous Mattel Inc. doll come to life. Rollerblading in Santa Monica, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

'Joyous' Barbie breaks the mould

BBC

Greta Gerwig's 'bold, inventive' Barbie breaks the mould Warner Bros This 'joyous' comedy – starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling – is sure to be nominated for many awards, writes Nicholas Barber. It must say something serious about the state of Hollywood that one of the most feverishly anticipated US films of 2023 is Barbie, an authorised tie-in to a …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Review: With Robbie in pink and Gosling in mink, ‘Barbie’ (wink-wink) will make you think

LA Times

Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” an exuberant, sometimes exhaustingly clever piece of Mattelian neorealism, opens with an extended, heavily trailer-spoiled homage to “2001: A Space Odyssey.” We’re at a drab early moment in the history of the toy industry; for too long, little girls everywhere have had only their sad, uninspiring baby dolls to play with — until now, at this fateful …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Opinion: Yes, Barbie is a feminist — just don’t ask her creators

LA Times

Almost 30 years ago, when I researched and wrote a history of the people and ideas that led to the creation of Barbie, I had no doubt she would be as talked about in 2023 as she was in 1959, when she first appeared. While I suspect every armchair gender theorist will be deconstructing Gerwig’s movie soon, Barbie’s resurgence of …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Barbie owners could see huge windfall driven by Hollywood movie

Daily Mail

With Barbie-mania about to sweep the nation with the release of the film, owners of the iconic dolls could be in for a windfall. Industry forecasts suggest that the movie starring Margot Robbie will bring in a staggering £850 million – ten times what it cost to make. And thanks to its popularity, sales of Barbie figurines, which hit the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The real-life inspiration for Barbie

BBC

The Barbie movie gives a nod to the doll's creator Ruth Handler Getty Images In the new Barbie film, the doll's creator Ruth Handler plays a crucial role. She spoke to the BBC in 1997, describing what her inspiration was – and how some men didn't like the idea of a doll with a woman's shape. Ruth Handler and her …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Barbie: A study on pink irony

The Hindu

The very first live-action feature film based on Mattel’s iconic fashion doll is only coming out only now, in 2023, more than 60 years after the doll was launched on March 9, 1959. Toy story Coming back to the teaser, with its unsettling Kubrick-ian vibe from the auteur’s 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, we like all the little children playing …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Barbie stars Margot Robbie, Issa Rae and Simu Liu react to their own doll replicas

The Independent

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1 year, 7 months ago

Australian woman spends over ₹82 lakh to look like a Barbie

Hindustan Times

Jazmyn Forrest, a 25-year-old from Queensland, Australia, decided to undergo multiple surgeries in her quest to become a real-life Barbie doll. She told the news outlet, “While I’m young, I want to have fun with my body and face.” Following her breast augmentation, Jazmyn Forrest underwent extensive procedures to enhance her looks. With each surgery, I really do get treated …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Barbie unveils Anna May Wong doll for AAPI Heritage Month

Associated Press

Six months after she was immortalized with a U.S. quarter, Asian American Hollywood trailblazer Anna May Wong has received another accolade affirming her icon status — her own Barbie. Mattel announced Monday the release of an Anna May Wong doll for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. “As the first Asian American actor to lead a U.S. television show, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Barbie with Down syndrome launched: How the doll has become more inclusive since its debut

Firstpost

Barbie can be anyone: a girl with Down’s syndrome, a judge, and an Indian with jhumkas and bangles. pic.twitter.com/VXvjkMX02b — Cath Xx August 16, 2022 2019-2020 – Diverse Fashionistas doll Barbie dolls with no hair, vitiligo, wheelchairs, a prosthetic limb, afro hair, and a Ken doll with “long rooted hair” were among the Barbie dolls in the Fashionistas series. Making …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Barbie Doll With Down Syndrome Introduced for Kids and it's Giving Everyone Hope

News 18

In a new step towards inclusivity, toy maker Mattel has introduced its first Barbie with Down’s syndrome. Another person mentioned, “Barbie has a doll with Down syndrome now, help your typical kids learn about addy in a fun and natural way so that by the time they meet addy or another extra special friend, they’re already familiar with her and …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Mattel introduces first Barbie with Down syndrome

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Toy company Mattel revealed its first Barbie doll representing a person with Down syndrome on Tuesday. Mattel collaborated with the National Down Syndrome Society to create the Barbie and “ensure the doll accurately represents a person with Down syndrome,” the company said. Barbie’s new doll representing a person with Down syndrome is part of Mattel’s 2023 Fashionistas line, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Barbie introduces first-ever doll with Down’s Syndrome

The Independent

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1 year, 8 months ago

Mattel launches first Barbie with Down syndrome to ‘counter social stigma’

LA Times

This Barbie has Down syndrome: Toymaker Mattel Inc., has teamed with the National Down Syndrome Society to introduce its first Barbie with the genetic condition on Tuesday — the latest doll in its inclusive lineup. The El Segundo, Calif.-based company said that the new fashion doll is “created to allow even more children to see themselves in Barbie, as well …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Daily Quiz | On Barbie

The Hindu

Daily Quiz | On Barbie Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit YOUR SCORE 0 /8 RETAKE THE QUIZ 1 / 8 | Name the creator and the co-designer of Barbie. YES NO Answer : Ruth Handler and Jack Ryan SHOW ANSWER 2 / 8 | Name the German doll that was the inspiration for Barbie. YES NO …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Barbie turns 64: How Mattel has kept the doll brand alive for so long

Firstpost

Rejected by the toy industry at first, Barbie is now one of America’s most trusted brands. By creating an iconic brand with special meaning for fans of all ages, toy company Mattel has successfully extended the lifecycle of the Barbie brand for well over half a century. But while most toys remain popular for only two or three years, Barbie’s …

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1 year, 9 months ago

The Power Of A Black Barbie

Huff Post

Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty Women say Black Barbies left an indelible, positive imprint on their racial self-conception. “Playing with my Black Barbies in the ’90s allowed me to feel proud in my skin as I imagined myself in Barbie’s ‘career’ and having the lifestyle that I created for her,” Oliphant told HuffPost. “I didn’t grow up seeing Black women …

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2 years, 2 months ago

‘The first Barbie I’d buy’: Mattel unveils new celebrity Barbie

The Independent

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2 years, 6 months ago

Church of England Platinum Jubilee: Portrait artist marks the Queen’s weekend with a ‘wrinkles and all’ Her Majesty Barbie doll

The Independent

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2 years, 6 months ago

First trans-Barbie doll launched to honour star Laverne Cox; netizens say 'World is finally progressing'

India TV News

The world got its first transgender Barbie doll in the wake of honouring transgender actor and activist Laverne Cox. Laverne's doll is dressed in a deep red tulle gown over a sparkling silver metallic bodysuit. Check out some more reactions below: Image Source : TWITTER First trans-Barbie doll launched Image Source : TWITTER First trans-Barbie doll launched Image Source : …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Laverne Cox honoured as first-ever trans Barbie doll: ‘It’s been a dream’

The Independent

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