Thanks to the highly anticipated “Barbie” movie, the doll industry is expected to surge to $14 billion by 2027. Sales of dolls and accessories are predicted to increase by 16 percent by 2026, compared ...

If you think Barbie is just a pretty doll, a new exhibit at the Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University will change your mind. “Out of the Box: A Barbie Retrospective” opened March 7 and runs ...

Karan Feder tells PEOPLE that the movie "embraced the love of the doll and the fashion history" Hedy Phillips is the Senior News Editor, Style at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her ...

Barbie is collaborating with Edikted on a new apparel drop for the next generation. The popular fashion doll franchise, which steps in as creative director for this collaborative capsule, and Gen ...

Life in plastic is fantastic, and Barbie has been making life look effortless since 1959. With the release of Barbie, the highly anticipated movie featuring Margot Robbie in the iconic role—and the ...

A new documentary on Netflix tells the story of the first Black Barbie doll. The doll arrived in 1980 — more than two decades after the 1959 launch of the first Barbie. If last year was the summer of ...

American toy giant Mattel has announced the addition of a blind Barbie and a Black Barbie with Down Syndrome to its Fashionistas doll line. Fashionistas represents the brand’s most innovative and ...

She’s got a very long name -- “Barbie Signature Diwali Doll By Anita Dongre Wearing Festival Of Lights Look.” (Dongre is a noted Indian fashion designer who collaborated with Mattel on the doll.) And ...

The things that make Barbie Barbie. Credit...Photo illustration by Elizabeth Renstrom for The New York Times Supported by Compiled by Louis Lucero II Maybe you’ve heard there’s a Barbie movie coming ...

Can the last 65 years of mainstream western design tastes, consumer culture and women’s history be told through the story of an 11.5-inch plastic doll? Barbie: The Exhibition at the Design Museum in ...