Earlier this year, the most famous US wrist was protagonist of one of the many headlines with which Donald Trump’s second presidency debuted. Simple: How Trump can end Barbiewas read in case something was missing for the apocalypse.
As the Mattel company concentrates 40 % of the manufacture of the wrist in China and 10 % in Mexico, after the import rise of import tariffs to those countries, it has only to increase the price of the product to the point of making it a luxury for rich girls.
The Mattel company distributes 40 % of wrist manufacturing in China and 10 % in Mexico.
The second news that Mattel started 2025 said that for the first time the male version of Barbie, the hegemonic Ken, It was based on a lord of flesh and bone, Los Angeles Lakers basketball player LeBron James.
The version of this Afromaerican Ken measures 2 more centimeters and costs $ 75, in addition to representing an enemy of the current president. “Going to the White House was an honor until you arrived,” the basketball icon in 2017 launched, when X was called Twitter. Unintentionally, like this the company come from Trump’s increasesturning one of its opponents into the first “Kenbassador” of the brand.
After the Pink Boom of 2023, just after the premiere of the film Barbiethe doll woke up the habit of being one more toy, to ascend as post -war pop icon. An actress like Margot Robbie embodied a Barbie over-expressive, challenging and feminist, who had little to do with that piece of plastic with the shape of a perfect girl.
Taking advantage of that resurrection, The Italian art and fashion specialist Massimiliano Capella celebrated 65 years of the pop doll updating a story about her that had published in 2016. Indeed, volume Barbie. Celebration of an icon It has just been translated into Spanish and is already distributed in Argentina.
In Capella’s ultradidactic analysis, Barbie’s key since her birth in 1959 was to absorb the trends of the moment, to the point of considering it “A fashion diffuser”. Therefore, after demonstrating how The first official Barbie was based on the maxims Of the ’50 -elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Sandra Dee-, the author ratifies how Marcel Rochas, Paco Rabanne, Ralph Lauren, Moschino and other brands are adapted to the wrist.
Barbie’s key since 1959 was to absorb the trends of the moment, to the point of being a fashion diffuser “
When we arrive at this decade, the debate on the “inclusive” orientation from Barbie. In 2022, it appears Barbie Diversity, The version Friendly with disabilities. Then a question is raised: Does the doll reflect the types of women that exist or impose “beauty models” to follow? How does a girl identify? There lies the question: who should resemble who.