Barbie is in her mid-60s & still going strong, but she's not an antique yet. Pull back the pink curtain & discover the ...

The only ‘grown-up’ fashion dolls available were made of paper - and so Barbie was born in the fictional town of Willows, Wisconsin, USA, with the intention of showing Barbara and other ...

Barbie was essential to many kids' childhoods ... Ruth noticed that she primarily played with baby and paper dolls and couldn ...

Created in 1959 by Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel with her husband Elliot Handler, Barbie was inspired by “watching their daughter play with make-believe paper dolls of adult women”.

"I want to be like Barbie." In 2021, before Barbie mania existed, I chose that controversial six-word phrase to open the most important essay of my life: the one for my college application.