Style Icon: Dia De Los Muertos Barbie

Barbie loves to be versatile and sometimes you honor the past with a bit of your cultural heritage. This style icon version of the doll honors the Mexican holiday Dia De Los Muertos.

Style Icon: Dia De Los Muertos Barbie 

Barbie is made up to look like La Catrina, who is considered one of the most emblematic and iconic figures. She is adorned in a long dress with bordados. Styled with la flor de cempasúchil her hair completements the look. This Barbie be available starting September 12.

Style Icon: David Parise‘s Vintage Barbie Beach Fun

Barbie loves the Beach and artist David Parise has captured her vintage fun fabulously! 

Do you like the Beach? 

Barbie does! 

Enjoy!

Kisses, m.

Style Icon: David Parise‘s Vintage Barbie Beach Fun

Style Icon: Inspiring Women Barbie

Barbie is a boss and when it comes to inspiring others she loves to support trailblazing women. In a new series Barbie lends her name & support to a line of Inspiring women that have accomplished amazing things... hopefully these ladies inspire others to take on the world! 

Style Icon: Inspiring Women Barbie 

Style Icons: Pool and Marianela presents Plastic Religion

Style Icons: Pool and Marianela presents Plastic Religion  

Everyone knows that Barbie loves to try on different hats and be extraordinary. Thanks to artists Pool and Marianela, Barbie can be a religious icon as well. Their series features 33 different Kens and Barbies depicting religious figures and has been recently exhibited in LosAngeles at La Luz De Jesus Gallery.

What do you think of their series? 

Enjoy!

Kisses, m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Architecture Barbie, Architecture!

Every once in a while Barbie loses focus and forgets who she is... And one of her oldest, favoritest and probably the most magical of all her favorite kens always finds a imaginative and delightful way to remind her that she's capable of so much more. In fact he's reminded her that one of this dolls favorite things to do is try on new jobs! Since she loves dream houses... Why not architecture! 

Architecture Barbie, Architecture!

Equipped with a model dream house, hard hat and drawing tube, Mattel boasts that Architect Barbie will empower girls to play out different roles and “try on” fabulous careers.  While Architect Barbie seems more like a tool to help girls with their play time... She's still a step in the right direction. Perhaps future dolls can include an iPad, optional pink friendly clothing that include a tshirt, pants & boots, & a hairstyle that can be pulled back for actual on site shenanigans with construction dolls & kens. 

And Perhaps... A more sophisticated attire for presentations?

Do you like to try on new professions?

Barbie does!

Enjoy!

Kisses, m.

Style Icon: #Unapologetic Barbie & her fabulously long resume

When you're a doll that's been around for 55 years your possibilities become endless & you start to accumulate careers. Now if you're Barbie your resume looks fabulously long and extensive! But what all 150 of careers on the fabulously long & extensive teaches women and girls is one fabulous lesson: Be unapologetic and become whatever you truly want to be! Never apologize for being yourself!

Style Icon: #Unapologetic Barbie for SI

“Style Icons come and go. Well some of them go.” - Barbie (2014)

Style Icon: Ruth Handler and The Fabulous Story of Barbie

“Barbie has always represented that a woman has choices. Even in her early years, Barbie did not have to settle for only being Ken’s girlfriend or an inveterate shopper. She had the clothes, for example, to launch a career as a nurse, a stewardess, a nightclub singer. I believe the choices Barbie represents helped the doll catch on initially, not just with daughters - who would one day make up the first major wave of women in management and professionals – but also with mothers.” - Ruth Handler

The First Barbie - Teen Age Fashion Doll (1959)

The story of Ruth Handler is one that few people know. Yet we know who Barbie is but we do not know the fabulous woman behind the fabulous doll. Without much effort one can assume that the doll, like most children's toys was a fantasy created by money hungry men. This is not the case in the creation of Barbie which in turn launched the spotlight onto a toy company, Mattel Creations that Ruth and Elliott handler co-founded 15 years earlier.

The idea of the fabulous Barbie doll came from an instance where Ruth was watching her daughter, Barbara and her friends playing with paper dolls. The girls played and imagined the dolls in a variety of roles such as career women, students, cheerleaders and athletes. It was in that instant that Ruth decided she wanted to make a doll that would be better choice for girls to play with.

Ruth Handler and Mattel Creations exhibited the first Barbie, the Teen-Age Fashion Model, Barbara Millicent Roberts, at the annual Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959. Buyers where wary that this new doll would be successful as she was nothing like the typical popular baby and toddler dolls. Barbie was a doll with an adult body design based on the Bild Lilli doll Ruth Handler acquired in Switzerland. The first Ken Doll, Barbie Doll’s boyfriend, Ken Doll, made his debut in 1961, two years after Barbie.

To many Ruth Handler is a revolutionary woman and Style Icon responsible for creating one of the world's most significant icons, Barbie. Not only did she create a woman capable of doing the impossible for all girls to look up to she further went on to invent a breast prothesis, Nearly Me, which is still in use today. For any little girl that thinks that nothing can be accomplished, she should find inspiration in the idea that a woman created an empire with a single idea for a doll. That in itself is what makes the fabulous story of Ruth Handler and Barbie remarkable and inspiring.

Did you own a Barbie as a little girl or boy? Or as an adult? 

Barbie by Tyler Shields for The Dirty Side of Glamour c/o tylershields.com

Is this how you play with your dolls, Kens and Dolls? 

Enjoy, 

Kisses, m.

Welcome to The Dreamhouse

Welcome to the Real Life Barbie Dreamhouse! 

Barbie has officially fashioned herself a 27,000 sq ft pink estate in Berlin, Germany! Guests are encouraged not only to visit the dreamhouse but enjoy its luxuries as well. Try on a few of Barbie's clothes while perusing her walk-in closet and don't forget to strut down the runway before you change back! If you're feeling hungry make a batch of virtual cupcakes in the dream kitchen then sample a real ones in the on-site cafe. 

Would you live in Barbie's Real Life Dream House or just visit?

Kisses, m.

Photo Credit: FABRIZIO BENSCH/REUTERS

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Barbie's Dream Life?

In the DollHouse by Dina Goldstein