A toy collector made a thrilling discovery after stumbling upon two vintage Barbie dolls from the 1980s worth up to $600—on a ...

Barbie: An Astronaut for the Ages. There is perhaps no résumé in existence quite as long as Barbie’s. One of her oldest and arguably most iconic careers is as an astronaut.

The secret “Barbie” message everyone can get behind is that Allan is amazing. He is also like us Summer 2023 is a "Barbie" world. But it wouldn't mean nothing, and we mean nothing, without Ken ...

Second-wave feminists, however, sneered at the tiny career clothes and saw nothing but the creepy, unrealistic body beneath them. In 1968, feminists protested the Miss America pageant, which ...

When the Barbie doll first debuted in 1959, she wore her signature ponytail along with a black and white striped swimsuit. In fact, Barbie pink didn’t really exist until the ‘70s.

Dress for the lifestyle you want, not the lifestyle you have – what was once a philosophy synonymous with 1980s fashion culture is now reemerging in Gen Z form. Writer Emilia Petrarca, in The ...

The first Black Barbie was created in 1980 by Kitty Black Perkins. Here’s everything to know about the doll and her creator.

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, ...

Practically everything is pink, including Barbie’s clothes, shoes, house, car — and even the sand at the beach. ... “In the 1980s, people started shopping for babies by gender, ...

Originally released in 1963, Midge was launched as Barbie’s best friend, a redhaired doll with freckles that could share clothes with Barbie, though Midge was much less glamorous than Barbie and ...