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The Anna Sui Barbie doll comes dressed in a look inspired by the designer's 2005 collection. Mattel. What she and the team also approached with precision was creating an outfit for mini Anna Sui.
Barbie dolls wearing clothes by designer Yves Saint Laurent, taken in Paris on January 1989. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. This article was originally published on March 9, 2019 ...
After launching the Boho Barbie with Mattel in 2006, the Chinese-American fashion icon has designed her own figurine, which will join the brand's Inspiring Women doll series ...
One needs only to see a perfectly pointed foot, positioned to fit neatly into a high heel, to know it belongs to Barbie. The doll’s feet spawned an Instagram trend in 2018, and in the first shot ...
Iconic fashion designer Anna Sui is Barbie’s latest Inspiring Women doll. Sui talked to ELLE about collaboration—and why it’s been a long time coming.
Carol Spencer, a fashion designer from Minneapolis, spent 35 years designing outfits for Barbie. She drew inspiration from designer brands like Dior and Chanel, and believes Barbie has endured ...
TODAY.com spoke with Carol Spencer, 90, who was one of Mattel’s chief Barbie designers from 1963 to 1998, about Barbie's evolution and how the doll has managed to stay relevant.
The first black Barbie came in a box in a box that touted “She’s black! She’s beautiful! She’s dynamite!” Mattel. Although Mattel had introduced the Christie doll as Barbie’s friend in ...
One of the biggest challenges of creating realistic, on-trend Barbie clothes is scaling everything down to Barbie size. The doll's clothes are 1/6th that of human-size, and while patterns can be ...
Exclusive Barbie bombshell: Origin of America’s favorite doll disputed by missile defense designer’s daughter Margot Robbie stars as Barbie in new Greta Gerwig movie that credits Ruth Handler ...