With more than one billion units sold worldwide and even after the movie’s success last summer the doll is farther away from retirement than ever. A walk through the California facilities where she is mass-produced and a conversation with the person in charge demonstrates that Barbie isn’t going away anytime soon
It’s the first week of the new year, but the competition to win the 2022 fashion collaboration game, that ever-escalating race to come up with the most eye-popping, head-shaking counterintuitive pairing of brands, has already begun. First out of the gate: Balmain, the French high fashion house, and Barbie, the ultimate plastic doll. It may signal the official breaching of the