More models are available with flatter feet and US producer Mattel is making the dolls more down-to-earth, according to a study by Monash University near Melbourne, Australia. Barbie, born in 1959, ...

In the 2023 movie Barbie, the title character, played by Margot Robbie, has a crisis over the arch of her feet. Early in the ...

Life in plastic — it’s not so fantastic, according to some Barbie bashers. A new study found that an overwhelming 82% of the 1,000 multi-generational, female case studies think Barbie dolls ...

She’s a Barbie girl in the real world. A Swedish woman claims that she spent nearly $127,280 on plastic surgery over the last 10 years in an attempt to become a real-life Barbie doll.

Barbie dolls of the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday are now available to order, recreating the Doctor Who heroes classic looks ...

She wanted to find out more about what these old Barbies are made of, and whether we should be worried. So, she turned to Dr. Yvonne Shashoua, a research professor from the National Museum of Denmark.

Sara H. Jodka of Dickinson Wright PLLC discusses how the rise of AI Barbie offers a case study of what happens when pop culture, technology, and the law collide.

Trailblazing ethologist and conservationist Jane Goodall now has her own Barbie doll made from recycled, ocean-bound plastic, toymaker Mattel announced on Tuesday. In partnership with the Jane ...

But the film’s tagline immediately pegs Ken, her lovesick sidekick with the washboard abs, as a lesser piece of plastic: “(Barbie is) everything. He’s just Ken.” While brands are churning ...

In other words, potential. Thank you, Mrs. Robinson. Barbie has more wit and wisdom in an 11-inch plastic toy than our society at large. Yes, the Barbie we once knew represented an unrealistic ...