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Get Your Mad Men Barbies (and Dons) For Just $74.95
Hey adults who play with Barbies (it's OK, she's 51 now), behold Mad Men Barbies.
Betty and Don and Roger and Joan are all perfectly coiffed, dressed, and ready for whatever people over 10 do with Barbies. I knew I was getting too old when I started giving them bangs and switching their heads and bodies, but these are collectors' items and not for maiming.
Barbie — Love Her or Leave Her?
Barbie, who turns 51 today, is loaded with much more than extra accessories. The typically blond, blue-eyed, and big-boosomed doll has been accused of furthering a very narrow definition of beauty and gender. Trying to stay current, Barbie's professions have expanded — her latest incarnation is as a computer programmer, complete with a pink laptop of course.
Barbie Video Girl Has a Built-In Camera and LCD Screen
Barbie may have a new high-tech career, but Computer Engineer Barbie isn't the only technologically inclined girl on the block. Barbie Video Girl has a video camera built right in! The lens is in her necklace, and video is displayed on an LCD screen on her back.
Barbie's New Career: Computer Engineer!
I put out a call via Twitter and Facebook last month for you guys to vote for "Computer Engineer" as Barbie's new career — and you totally did! Announced today, the newest additions to the Barbie family will include two professions: computer engineer (which won by popular vote — way to go geeks!) and news anchor (took the top vote among girls).
Not only will Computer Engineer Barbie be attached to her shiny pink laptop and Bluetooth earpiece, but Mattel worked closely with the Society of Women Engineers to ensure that Barbie's fashions were as geek chic as possible.
The 12 Ages of Christmas: 6-Year-Olds
Instead of the 12 days of Christmas, we're celebrating the ages and the toys that go along with them. Keep an eye out for your age group as we tick along throughout the season!
On the sixth day of Christmas, yours truly gave to thee...
Fab Flash: Christian Louboutin Barbie Sells Out
Christian Louboutin's long awaited Barbie doll (£100) finally arrived at Net-a-Porter this weekend, and within 24 hours it was gone. The classic doll was dressed by Christian in a black catsuit and differa heels and named 'The Cat Burglar'.
She comes with a choice of four different red soled footwear including knee high leopard print boots.
Ladies of the '80s Barbies — Love It or Leave It?
Move over Kristen Stewart! Barbie is the latest impersonator to pay homage to rock and roll icon Joan Jett.
Regular Barbie — and those anatomically-impossible small feet she jams into high heels — must be jealous that Mattel's new Joan Jett Barbie gets to sport some rad red Converse.
Fab Finding Follow-Up: It's a Barbie World
Have you heard? Christian Louboutin is serving as yearlong godfather to Barbie. That means the gorgeous doll is going to have her very own Louboutin heels — lucky!
A Doll of One's Own: Mattel Rolls Out New Black Barbies
Mattel has launched some new black Barbie dolls, and they're getting praised and dissed in equal measure. Grace, Kara, and Trichelle, created by Stacy McBride-Irby to give her daughter and other African-American girls dolls that resemble them, have been criticized by some for not being "black enough."
"I love the black Barbie.
Come Fab Finding With Me: It's a Barbie World
Have you heard? Christian Louboutin is serving as yearlong godfather to Barbie. That means the gorgeous doll is going to have her very own Louboutin heels — lucky!
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