Awesome Transformations of Barbie Doll By Daniel Lima
Barbie is more than a doll for youngsters. Barbie may still be fun for elderly folks, in different ways. Continue reading »
Amy Coleslaw’s Love Affair with Needle Felting and ’90s Pop Culture
Amy Coleslaw started needle felting in 2017 after a trip to Vancouver, Canada. While visiting Granville Island Market, she encountered a needle felt artist and was astounded by the work. She knew instantly that it was something she wanted to try. Continue reading »
Barbenheimer: The Superb Movie Poster Mashups by Rahal Nejraoui
Rahal Nejraoui is a graphic designer and digital artist based in Morocco. He makes great mashups of movie posters. He is particularly good at mashups for Barbie and Oppenheimer. Take look and enjoy. Continue reading »
Barbie: The Plastic Religion – A Controversial Art Project That Reimagines Barbie as Jesus, Buddha, Baphomet and More
Barbie is known as the most popular doll in the world, but also as a symbol of consumerism, beauty standards and gender stereotypes. But what if Barbie could also be a symbol of spirituality, diversity and tolerance? That’s what two artists from Argentina, Marianela Perelli and Pool Paolini, tried to explore with their art project “Barbie: The Plastic Religion”. Continue reading »
Introducing Borbie: The Shave And Play Barbie with Body Hair
Would you like to own a Barbie doll that you can shave, complete with thick, dark body hair? Well, now you can! An Etsy store is selling a unique doll called “Shave And Play” Barbie, also known as “Borbie” for legal reasons. This unconventional Barbie is a one-of-a-kind addition to any doll collection. Continue reading »
Toy Retailer Hired A Designer To Create ‘Friends’ Barbie Dolls, And They Delivered
Over the years, Mattel’s famous Barbie dolls have been made as nurses, celebrities, supermodels, athletes and other inspiring figures. Surprisingly, one of the world’s most successful TV franchises ever, Friends, never had a Barbie treatment…. Until now!
The Toy Zone asked concept artist Margarita Zhitnik to try to imagine what Friends characters would look like if they were Barbie dolls, and she delivered just the thing. They’re loaded with clothes, props, and references from the most memorable scenes, and in my opinion, as one of the die-hard fans of the show, I think they turned out awesome. Let’s pray Mattel will heed our prayers and make it real someday!
Ross’s Leather Pants Set
“Ahead of a date with the comically named Elizabeth Hornswoggle, Ross decides to experiment with leather pants. He looks surprisingly okay in them – when he can get them on. But it’s pure torture for Chandler, who has bet Ross $50 that he can last a week without making insults.” Continue reading »
Russia’s only Woman Cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, Inspires One-Of-A-Kind Barbie Doll
Russia’s only active female cosmonaut has inspired the latest astronaut Barbie doll from Mattel’s campaign to inspire women. Continue reading »
Meet The Original ‘Shave and Play’ Barbie – The Weird and Funny Pandemic 2020 Present
Need a gag gift that will be the hit of the party?!!! Get The Original Shave & Play Borbie!!!
You’ve played with regular Barbie, but this is Shave & Play Borbie…and she is unlike any other doll you’ve played with! She is FURRY and ready for a trim! Whip out the razor (included) and give her a style all her own! Borbie will love her new, silky smooth, hair-free self! Continue reading »
Meet Trophy Wife Barbie: She Smokes, Drinks, And Raises Hell
Trophy Wife Barbie is divorced. She drinks wine, smokes weed, and owns a massive arsenal of pink guns. She vomits, bleeds, and goes to the bathroom. She breastfeeds in public, has transgender friends, and frequently gives the finger. Oh, and she has antlers sprouting from her head.
In other words, Trophy Wife Barbie is nothing like the real Barbie. Continue reading »
Mattel Announces The Release Of A New Barbie Doll In Honor Of David Bowie
Surely David Bowie is one of those people who deserve the title of genius. We know that all the adjectives that can be bestowed on him are not enough to describe one of the personalities and one of the most radical and enormous talents known in the world of culture and the arts. Bowie has spent his life creating beautiful works and revolutionizing the world in so many ways, it’s getting hard to count. Continue reading »
Barbie Unveils 17 New Dolls That Pay Tribute To Famous Inspiring Women
With the Barbie Inspiring Women collection, the Mattel brand has just unveiled 17 new dolls, paying tribute to the most inspiring women. Artist Frida Kahlo, aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, French chef Hélène Darroze, mathematician Katherine Johnson and snowboarder Chloe Kim are some of the great female figures that the famous Barbie doll will embody. Continue reading »
Jewelry Made From Barbie Doll Parts
Would you wear these bizarre jewelry items made by Brooklyn artist Margaux Lange? They are made of chopped up pieces of Barbie dolls… which is just a bit creepy in a serial killer kind of way. Continue reading »
Russian Photographer Imagines What If Barbie And Ken Were Slavs?
What if your favorite toys where marketed and depicted as if they’re out of somewhere else? Like, imagine if Barbie and Ken were out of Eastern Europe (Slavic part mostly). Continue reading »
Midge Hadley: The Super Rare Pregnant Barbie Doll
Midge Hadley was the pregnant Barbie who hit the shelves in 1963. She hooked up with Allan Sherwood. And together they had three little plastic off-cuts called Ryan and Nikki and Cassandra. Continue reading »
Meet Brazilian ‘Human Barbie’ Andressa Damiani
A Brazilian woman who has been likened to a ‘human Barbie’ claims her appearance is natural and she hasn’t had plastic surgery or starved herself to be thin. Andressa Damiani, from Blumenau, who has a 20-inch waist and wears a 32F bra size, boasts the same facial features as a doll – including huge eyes and long legs. The 23-year-old has found fame in her native country with passers-by on the street calling her ‘Elsa’ because of her resemblance to the character in Disney’s Frozen. Continue reading »
This Is What Happens When Barbie Faces The Struggles Of Living In NYC
If you’ve ever been brave enough to venture into the adult world pf NYC as a twentysomething, you know just how difficult normal, daily activities can be! As magical as the city can be, everything seems to be an expensive, uphill battle. Continue reading »
This Hipster Barbie Account Perfectly Mocks Every Annoying Person On Instagram
You know that one friend on Instagram who is always making you feel kind of bad that you just sat home and watched Netflix all weekend? Well, even they are no match for Hipster Barbie. Hipster Barbie, also known as Socality Barbie, is taking Instagram by storm thanks to her super #deep travel shots. Continue reading »
The New Barbie: Meet the Doll with an Average Woman’s Proportions
Pittsburgh artist Nickolay Lamm, launched a crowdfunding campaign to manufacture Barbie-inspired dolls with average measurements as an alternative to the Mattel original.
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Dismembered Barbie Jewelry Inspires Complex Meditations on the Doll
In deconstructing Barbie dolls and repurposing them as jewelry for “Plastic Bodies Series,” the designer Margaux Lange forces us to enter an uncomfortable space between disgust and worship of the iconic toy. Barbie, who has been a target of the last decades’ feminist debate, occupies an ambiguous role in the social and sexual development of girls; she exudes sexuality with her adult figure, but she also remains virginal, never revealing her nipples or genitalia. Continue reading »
Artist Recreates Barbie with Real-life Proportions
Would a Barbie doll with real-life proportions sell in stores? Pittsburgh artist Nickolay Lamm thinks so. He created a 3D model of Barbie if she had the proportions of an average 19-year-old woman. Artist Nickolay Lamm, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recreated the iconic Mattel doll using proportions of the average 19-year-old woman, according to the CDC. Continue reading »
The Biggest Barbie Dolls Collection Ever
Stanley Colorite, 41, poses for a picture in his bedroom with part of his Barbie collection in Hudson, Florida. More than 2,000 dolls are spread over four rooms of his house. He has been building his collection for 16 years and it is thought to be worth $80,000 (£53,000). (Laurentiu Garofeanu / Barcroft USA)
Barbie Suicides
In her photo series called ‘Play Dead’, photographer Mariel Clayton shows us Barbie ‘committing suicide’ by cutting her wrist, suffocation, stabbing and shooting herself in the head. Continue reading »
