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 ...

Lagueria Davis had no idea making shirts for her documentary would help get it on the biggest streaming platform in the world.

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.

On March 9, 1959, in the Flatiron district of New York, co-founder of Mattel Ruth Handler launched her latest—and perhaps most daring—creation: Barbie. Standing at 11.5 inches tall, the sultry-eyed ...

See what it’s like to live life in plastic at the new exhibition Barbie®: A Cultural Icon at the Museum of Arts and Design.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It seems Barbie has some new friends to add to her circle and they come in the shape of four mixed race girls named Jayla, Kara, Trichelle and Chandra. The first of their kind in a sea of fair skinned ...

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 ...