Her creator, Ruth Handler, based Barbie’s body on a German doll called Lilli, a prostitute gag gift handed out at bachelor parties. Her proportions were designed accordingly. When Handler ...

Barbie was revolutionary in many ways. She was more than just a doll; she was a reflection of possibility. Ruth Handler’s ...

They are an unlikely duo, but are currently sharing a stage. Barbie and Julia Child are both comfortably ensconced at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An iconic doll turns 66 on Sunday, and fans worldwide and in the Las Vegas valley are taking a nostalgic ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband ... she’d seen while vacationing in Switzerland.) Ruth named the doll Barbie, after her daughter. The first model went on display in March ...

Ruth Handler was inspired to create Barbie ... the best-selling Barbie of all time, debuted. The doll "celebrated the loud fashions and big hair craze of the early '90s" and had the longest ...

Ruth Handler was steadfast in making sure Barbie was a grown-up doll with a grown-up figure so girls could imagine their own futures at a time when women’s career options were limited.

Barbie. The famous doll was developed in 1959 by Ruth Handler for the company, Mattel, to continue the legacy of the fashion doll, but with a more modern, transformative approach for the times.

Leave it to Greta Gerwig to craft a Barbie movie that references everything from the history of Mattel to Stanley Kubrick films, Disney Channel originals and Michelangelo. From the in-jokes to the ...

Inventor Ruth Handler first introduced the pint-sized ... retired American tennis player Billie Jean King posted a photo of her own Barbie doll to X. The 80 year-old wrote: “65 years ago today ...