Netflix’s 'Black Barbie ... had any Black dolls to play with growing up. However, Perkins took that matter into her own hands. “I would actually color the skin of the paper dolls,” she ...

“So my instinct when I got a paper doll was to make her look like ... in ‘Scandal’ is not a Black Barbie, down to the outfits and the dress-up and the clothes, I don’t know what is really.” ...

but it was mainly paper dolls because we couldn’t afford a lot of dolls and toys,” she said. Black Perkins rose from assistant designer for Barbie in 1976 to chief designer in the mid-’80s.

"You can dress her up as ... were more interested in the paper dolls that resembled adult women than they were in the baby dolls popular at the time. Handler saw Barbie as a way for girls to ...

In 1959, Ruth Handler — co-founder of the toy giant Mattel — was watching her daughter, Barbara, play with paper dolls ... Tuxedo Barbie screams luxury. The top part of her dress resembled ...

who noticed her daughter Barbara — for whom “Barbie” is named — enjoyed changing the clothes of her own paper dolls. So Handler created a more realistic adult doll with real clothes and mo ...

When Barbie first came out in March 1959, she was introduced as a teenage fashion model; a glossy alternative to the dress-and-undress paper dolls children cut-out and played with at the time.

Ruth named the doll Barbie, after her daughter ... or wearing a wedding dress made of toilet paper. As Chin says, children “often go off script in ways that are super interesting and can ...

The official 2025 Barbie doll is regal and resplendent ... while plum blossom petals adorn the dress, symbolizing strength and resilience. The dress is given a modern flair with a tailored ...

After Mattel‘s culture sweeping debut of Barbie in 1959, it took nearly 17 years for the brand to come out with a version of the collectible doll that represented more than one type of skin color.