Perkins’ Black Barbie officially hit store shelves in 1980, 21 years after the original Barbie doll debuted. The original packaging for Black Barbie read: “She’s Black! She’s beautiful!

“She's Black! She's beautiful! She's dynamite!” Citing the documentary, People Magazine revealed that Kitty Perkins wanted the Barbie doll to be different than the original one. Moreov ...

In 1980, Mattel introduced the first Black and Latino Barbie and Ken dolls after previously relegating multicultural dolls to the friend role. It also released the first of a series of ...

Mattel will sell the dolls exclusively on Barbie.com at first while it negotiates with retailers for extra shelf space to make room for the new bodies and their clothes alongside the original.

In 1967, Mattel introduced the first African American Barbie, but the moulds were the same as the original white dolls. In 1997, Mattel released a black Barbie in partnership with Oreo (she held ...

Like the trendsetters they are, Beyoncé and JAY-Z nailed their doll ... went full Barbie mode for Halloween 2016, and we're still not over it. Ballerini went all out to host the Original Donut ...

Mariah Carey‘s busy Christmas season just got a lot more festive, with the re-release of the official Mariah Carey Barbie doll. The Mariah Barbie quickly sold out when it was released last year ...

The car can hold two full-sized Barbie dolls and has a remote control so you can drive them around. It also has a trunk that opens so you can fit all their accessories (like roller blades or ...

The exhibition tracks the history of the Barbie brand, from its beginnings to through its milestone moments, like when it released its first Black and Hispanic dolls in 1980. There’s a quote on ...

highlights of which include Black Barbie (June 19), a Shondaland film that tells the story of Beulah Mae Mitchell, Kitty Black Perkins, and Stacey McBride Irby—the three Black women at Mattel ...

The special Barbie Diwali doll has been dressed by Indian designer Anita Dongre, who has previously made outfits for Beyoncé and Kate Middleton, to name a few.

The film features too many outfits from real Barbies to count, but one of the most notable is that in the opening scene, Barbie is wearing the black-and-white swimsuit from her very first doll in ...