Mattel has revealed Barbie’s new role model dolls in honour of Women’s History Month. The iconic doll brand has announced that it will be adding a few new dolls to its Role Models collection to ...

Barbie was officially born on March 9, 1959, when she launched at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Mattel’s co-creator, Ruth Handler, became inspired to create a 3D doll that could inspire ...

Barbie is expanding its world yet again. On July 22, two new Barbies are being brought to life at Mattel: a blind Barbie and a Black Barbie with Down syndrome. Both of these dolls join the Fashionista ...

"Mattel had spent years obscuring Barbie's backstory," Hitt writes. According to the new book, Barbie is actually a "knockoff" whose origins and later production are marred by accusations of theft and ...

MACON, Ga. — With the new Barbie movie dominating the box office, one local professor of history shares how the doll has progressed through the decades. Dr. Susan Asbury is an assistant professor of ...

In Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Mattel raids its entire toybox. Along with Margot Robbie’s titular doll and Ryan Gosling’s Ken, we see discontinued toys from bygone eras of Mattel, all of them pulled from ...

As the doll celebrates its 65th anniversary, Mattel execs Lisa McKnight and Kim Culmone look back at what the movie unearthed (see: Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken). By Nicole Fell Assistant Editor For ...