As Barbie approaches her 45th anniversary, celebrate her longevity with a wardrobe worthy of her success in the first official Barbie knits book--enough go-anywhere garments and accessories to fill a Barbie-sized closet. Among the 50-plus stylish patterns, you'll find some winning vintage looks (like a snazzy Sixties dress and go-go boots or a fur ...
Barbie "Exclusives" are the prestigious Mattel-produced dolls and designs made solely for a company and not sold in any other establishment--making them one of the most sought-after categories around. This complete guide to these dolls features virtually every exclusive produced to date--in full color and described in detail. 300+ color photos.
This beautiful, entertaining book features hundreds of full-color photos of Barbie doll fashions, detailed descriptions, and current values. A stylebook of fashions complete with all accessories. 2006 values.
This all-new fourth edition of the ever-popular "Barbie Doll Years" makes cataloging a collection a snap. Every Barbie doll, her friends, and accessories are listed alphabetically by name, stock number, and year, making it possible to locate a specific doll even if you know only the item number.
Perfect for Barbie[registered] doll collectors on the go, this reference provides vast amounts of information in an easy-to-carry guide. More than 1,500 Barbie[registered] dolls and accessories are covered, allowing collectors to easily identify and value their collections and potential purchases. This handy book contains photos and values for one ...
The early and rare Barbie--in 75 ravishing photographs! Here is Barbie as she was meant to be seen and celebrated, clothed in Mattel's now impossible-to-find ensembles that have been copied from the original designs of the great couturiers--Chanel, Balenciaga, and Dior, among others--and photographed by the foremost photographer of toys at work ...
For more than 30 years, Barbie has mirrored the fashion, lifestyles, and beauty ideals of her time. Collectors have been enchanted by her as flower child, disco queen, rock star, and career woman. This book chronicles the first three decades of this popular collectible, showing a complete, year-by-year line of over 800 U.S. and foreign Barbies, ...
The Barbie Boom features information on virtually every U.S. Barbie and a sampling of the most popular foreign dolls beginning in 1986, the year Mattel released the first doll especially for adult collectors. More than 400 full-color photos showcase over 800 dolls.
This informative book has become the classic reference on Barbie doll and her family and friends. With hundreds of photos and informative text, this comprehensive book contains information gained from years of intensive research. A detailed and enjoyable publication for all Barbie collectors.
With no repeats from the other two Barbie Doll volumes, Volume III features more than 600 full color photos of fashions, detailed descriptions, and current values.
For more than 30 years, Barbie has mirrored the fashion, lifestyles, and beauty ideals of her time. Collectors have been enchanted by her as flower child, disco queen, rock star, and career woman. This book chronicles the first three decades of this popular collectible, showing a complete, year-by-year line of over 800 U.S. and foreign Barbies, ...
Complete descriptions, values, model numbers, dates and markings for more than 1,000 dolls will assist you in identification of these highly sought after dolls. Barbie and all her friends issued in 1959 through 1995 are photographed in 1,800 full color photographs.
This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning. Some readings would see Barbie as reproducing ethnicity and gender in a particularly coarse and damaging way - a cultural icon of racism and sexism. Rogers develops a broader, more challenging picture. She shows how the ...
Robin Gerber, a noted author and speaker on women and leadership, skillfully entwines the stories of two exceptional women. There's Barbie: the diminutive yet arrestingly voluptuous doll unveiled at the 1959 Toy Fair to the disdain of the male buyers. She transcended her strange beginnings as the improbable offspring of 1950s American paper dolls ...
Far from a toy designed by men to enslave women, Barbie was a toy invented by women for women to teach them what - for better or worse - was expected of them. Controversial cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, positions the doll as an international marketing phenomenon, an early model of ...
Move over ladies, the guys are here and they're showing that they are not just women's accessories any longer! The latest in the series of popular how-to books chronicles the up-and-coming male fashion dolls that have recently hit the market. The newest book in a series of fashion doll makeovers by Jim Faraone gives step-by-step instructions on ...
Trace the history of Barbie from her beginning in 1959 through her metoric rise in popularity to her place on the world stage as a jet-setting multicultural fashion icon. Beautifully illustrated, this book follows Barbie through five decades of changing styles. Full color.
Barbie is an American icon. But Barbie becomes a problem when the adult fantasy collides with the child's fantasy? All that misplaced Barbie angst of our youth, all the childhood conditioning, and the adult results are revealed at last in Mondo Barbie.
The perfect reference for the more than 200,000 adult collectors of Barbie dolls in North America, Contemporary Barbie is a comprehensive guide to Barbie collecting after 1980, covering mass-produced as well as limited-edition Barbies. The guide provides the current value of each doll, along with special research, insights, and stories never ...
From AAFES to Zeller's, this is the only book collectors will ever need to identify and value their retailer-exclusive Barbie dolls. Over 500 dolls not shown in previous editions have been added to this volume, along with 60 new fashions.
The billionth Barbie doll was sold in Octobe r 1997. Marco Tosa explains the cultural ethos of this uniqu e phenomenon and the changes that have taken place over the decades as both doll and the fashion industry reflect new st yles of dress and behaviour '
In 1986, Mattel developed a division to create and market Barbie dolls for adult collectors. Ten years later that division, formerly known as Timeless Creations, has provided the adult collector with many exotic and extremely collectible creations! Barbie Doll Exclusively for Timeless Creations showcases 170 plus dolls with gorgeous full-colour ...
Barbie Exclusives are the prestigious Mattel-produced dolls and designs made solely for a company and not sold in any other establishment. This brand-new book is a complete look at truly harder-to-find dolls. With well over 300 color photos of Barbie Exclusives, it was created to help collectors of customized Barbie dolls to really zero in on ...
Over 700 million Barbie dolls have been sold since 1959 and each day, somewhere in the world, two Barbie dolls are bought each second. Barbie is the quintessential beauty and a potent reminder of childhood. She's slim, leggy, confident, cheerful, smart, and accomplished; her resume lists careers as an astronaut, cowgirl, veterinarian, executive, ...
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