Barbie, black history month and Fashion Design

Mattel Highlights Designers With Black In Fashion Council, Releases 45th Anniversary Black Barbie
To further celebrate Black History Month, Barbie has launched the 1980s Black Barbie Collection and a Black History Month apparel line, available on Amazon. Featuring over a dozen graphic tees with iconic Black Barbie imagery, the collection aims to celebrate cultural representation in fashion and toys.
Barbie Announces Partnership With Black in Fashion Council, Spotlights Emerging Designers for Black History Month
Finally, Barbie is highlighting Aurora James, founder of accessories brand Brother Vellies and the Fifteen Percent Pledge, this month. The fashion designer is the latest guest on the Barbie Podcast, and she also rang in Black History Month by dressing dolls in her label’s signature styles on the @BarbieStyle Instagram account.
Barbie Partnering with Black in Fashion Council to Empower the Next Generation of Black Female Fashion Designers in Celebration of Black History Month
Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) announced today that Barbie is celebrating Black History Month and multiple generations of Black female designers, past, present, and future - from the designer behind the first-ever Black Barbie doll to emerging designers making a name for themselves, to young girls considering a future career in fashion design.
Barbie And Black In Fashion Council Team Up On Partnership Highlighting Nia Thomas, Larissa Muehleder, And Fumi Egbon
BIFC and Barbie announce an interview series centering the three designers who have spoken about specific hurdles they've experienced in the fashion industry.
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When Was the First Black Barbie Made? All About the Doll's History
With critics and collectors demanding more diverse dolls, Perkins was tasked in 1979 with creating the first Black Barbie — who was not only named Barbie, but was also designed to resemble ...
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Barbie Celebrates 45th Anniversary of First Black Doll With Limited-Edition Collectible of Creator Kitty Black Perkins
Barbie was a a firefighter, a teacher, an actor, a lifeguard, a doctor. But it wasn’t until 1976, when Kitty Black Perkins joined the brand as Chief Designer of Fashion Doll concepts ...
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The evolution of Barbie's design over the years
In 1980, Mattel introduced the first Black and Latino Barbie and Ken dolls after previously relegating ... In 1997, Mattel decided to give Barbie a more realistic figure and made her waist ...
I Wish I Had a Barbie Like the Aaliyah Doll Growing Up
A writer explains what the new Aaliyah Barbie doll means to little Black girls and why it's important to have representation in toys.
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Realistic average size Barbie doll
An curved arrow pointing right. Lammily is the brainstorm of artist Nickolay Lamm, who was tired of seeing the unattainable body image that Barbie dolls conveyed. Taking the measurements of the ...
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6th annual Black Doll Exhibition | Celebrating Black Dolls and The New Era of Beauty
Black Barbie is the untold story of the first Barbie doll created as a Black woman and the pivotal role that three trailblazing women had in working with the Mattel Company in 1980 to ...