‘Barbie’

Celebrate the toy world’s most iconic star with this irresistible coffee table book by Assouline, dedicated to the fantastic history of the legendary doll on her sixty-fifth birthday. So much more than a doll, Barbie is a cultural icon, a slice of social history, a promise. She’s magnetic and magic, and since her creation by feminist founder of LA toy company Mattel, Ruth Handler, over a billion of her have sold worldwide, in multiple nationalities, ethnicities and body types. Enter into the gorgeous world of this collectible queen, and meet her in many forms — her different outfits, professions, lives — as she continues to inspire and subvert in the pages of this desirable book authored by award-winning writer and professor Susan Shapiro, replete with facts and never-before-seen visuals.