(Non-white Barbie ethnicities were not introduced until the 1980s.) Tiffany Shlain, who made a 2005 short documentary “The Tribe” about the history of Jews and Barbie, is herself a blond ...

As if being styled after a promiscuous German cartoon wasn’t interesting enough, Barbie’s designer and the patent owner, Jack Ryan, didn’t have a long history in toy production. Prior to his time ...

Since Greta Gerwig's brilliant "Barbie" movie came in July 2023, countless people have continued revisiting their own fond ...

Barbie was the "first mass-produced toy doll in the U.S. with adult features," according to History.com. Throughout her 60-plus year career, Barbie has gone on many adventures and taken on over ...

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 ...

Before Valentine’s Day in 2004, Mattel announced that Barbie and Ken were breaking up and introduced her new beau, Blaine, an Australian boogie boarder, according to History.com. The ...

Journalist and lifelong Barbie fan Emily Tamkin talks us through Ken’s development, or lack thereof, over the decades. Read Emily’s “A Cultural History of Barbie,” and Chris’s brief Ken ...

Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The highly-anticipated movie Barbie is already making waves as one of the biggest films of 2023, even before its release. It has ...