In 1956, there were baby dolls for little girls to play with. but the idea of an eleven-and-a-half inch tall grown women with ...

This Barbie is dropping a coffee table book. Barbie star Margot Robbie and her stylist Andrew Mukamal teamed with fashion photographer Craig McDean to release Barbie: The World Tour, a coffee ...

BARBIE is, undoubtedly, the world’s most famous doll. But that is no accident. She is almost 66 and, as this book shows, she has been busy. She’s been a fashion icon, doctor, astronaut and ...

Tokyopop and Mattel partner to release Barbie and Hot Wheels manga-style graphic novels by 2026. New stories and artwork will ...

And what a figure! Back in 1994, when she turned 35, there were books, articles and academic studies aplenty that took on the semiotics of bosomy Barbie. They invoked her forerunner, Bild Lilli ...

These manga-style graphic novels are part of Mattel’s ongoing push to engage with fans through storytelling. Traditionally, the toys themselves would sell on their own; the story would stem from ...

"By the 1980s, Barbie starts to creep in. "Many more girls in the 1980s were asking for things like make-up and miniskirts, while in the 1970s it was the same as the boys - toys and books." ...

Mattel has pulled its children's book "Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer" after intense backlash from consumers. The book, which implies that women need a man's help to code, was immediately ...