Barbie

Barbie

The Barbie Doll is 50 years old. She always 29cm and weights 205grams, she didn't take a wrinkle.
She was the favorite toy of million little girl throughout the world, Several Parisian store celebrate her birthday.She was presented for the first time to the Fair of the Toy of New York in a black and white striped bathing suit.
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The doll underwent changes of look, she also knew technical innovations, as for the articulation of her arms and her hands, Her face also changed, finding features more in adequacy with her customers in constant evolution, The last change operated on the doll goes back to 2001. Her new originators decided to widen the hips to him, to narrow her chest and to often her navel and her size.

As of the first year, 300 000 specimens of the doll are bought,And success will not be contradicted, even if her make-up, her small centres provocant and her behaviour make the objet of criticism of the adult.

She doesn't prevent, the little girl from being crazy about some and this in all the countries of the world.

But it is true that into growing old, in the Sixties, Barbie adopts and fallows the evolutios of the compagny, She can be a nurse, teacher and even astronot or businesswoman. On the whole, she represented 108 trades and was made cut a billion clothing.
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But since 2001, the charms of Barbie operates less, while resembling more and more so that can be really the woman, Barbie lost her statute of icon and less makes dreams.

In Paris, in addition to the Museum of the Doll, the store Colette and the Lafayette Galleries decided to celebrate the birthday of Barbie, either by expoures or by the sale of new models.

 

By Justine.