A lot of us grew up playing with Barbies, myself included. I was obsessed with getting every outfit and every accessory that I could. I also was blessed enough to have the Barbie movie theater, Barbie ...

Children’s toy fads come and go, but Barbie never seems to show her age. The famous doll with the famously unrealistic figure has seen every fashion from bellbottoms to hot pants to leg warmers since ...

Barbie got a major makeover this week when Mattel released the beloved doll in three new more, realistic body types, and with 30 hair colors, 22 eye colors and seven skin tones. One thing Barbie ...

Barbie’s wardrobe has been expanding with stylish and colorful clothing for decades and many of the doll’s most memorable looks are thanks to one woman — Carol Spencer, Barbie’s longest-running ...

As Barbie celebrates her 60th birthday on Saturday, her longest-running clothing designer has defended the iconic doll’s thin body against criticism of promoting unrealistic body image. Carol Spencer ...

Among Troescher-Battle’s clothing models is her own childhood doll, whose derrière carries a well-worn “Barbie” stamp and the year 1961. Although Barbie had appeared in 1958, the first official Barbie ...

Mattel Television is developing a small-scale reality competition series for one of the world’s biggest fashion icons: Barbie. The studio is co-producing “Barbie Fashion Battle,” a reality competition ...

Get ready to dress up dolls of all kinds with this list of 35+ doll clothes patterns. From baby dolls to fashion dolls and even to clothes for an American girl doll, we have a wide variety of patterns ...

LOS ANGELES — Carol Spencer might be the most influential fashion designer you’ve never heard of. In the mid-1960s, she made a red pencil skirt with a white sleeveless blouse that had red stitching ...

Like most little girls of her era, Dru Troescher-Battle had a Barbie doll. But Troescher-Battle, of Metairie, was never one of those obsessed Barbie kids. “I couldn’t decide between dolls and trucks,” ...