Princess Barbie and her life in modern society

Barbie is a doll that is, as it were, a standard of beauty, and not only among dolls, but also among women. Now almost 100 dolls are created every year, including her friends - comrades, family members and relatives, etc. The best designers are involved in the creation of these dolls. The first dolls from Mattel are quite expensive. Compared to those we see now, they are rather modestly dressed - a black striped swimsuit, sandals, a ponytail hairstyle and gold hoop earrings. Their birth took place in March 1959. All the details of the origin of Barbie have already been mentioned.
There is Barbierepresenting images of real people, dolls - stars. Many Hollywood actresses have "lookalikes", that is, a Barbie doll with a face that looks like itself. The doll is endowed with the features of both actresses and famous women in the world. Among them Princess Diana, Naomi Campbell, Marilyn Monroe, Cameron Diaz, Hilary Dove. Some princesses from the past also found their continuation in the image of Barbie. And also fabulous princess barbie delight girls with their beauty.

Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko received such a gift - a doll Barbie with the same braid on the head. She put it up for a charity auction, from which Barbie flew away for 19 thousand euros. And the lawyer Sergei Vlasenko bought a Barbie doll - the "double" of Ekaterina Yushchenko for 70 thousand dollars. Of course, other ladies of Ukraine also got carried away with the sale of their "doubles". The dolls are sewn outfits, which, like the dolls themselves, are a work of art. Designer Lilia Pustovit sewed a whole wardrobe of outfits of extraordinary beauty for the Sofia Rotaru doll. I got this doll for 1000 euros. General Director of the publishing house "Kommersant-Ukraine" Kazbek Bektursunov.

Barbie Clothes
When the billionth doll was released Barbie, a show was organized in France dedicated to this amazing toy. Fashion designers and real fashion models demonstrated Barbie clothes. All proceeds from the action went to charity. By the way, fashion designers do not need to be persuaded to create fashionable clothes for a beautiful doll, they themselves want it. Therefore, Barbie has clothes from Cristian Dior, Ralph Lauren, Versace, Givenchy, Vera Wang, Burberry, Bill Blass. Our Russian fashion designers also dress Barbies - Victoria Andriyanova, Valentin Yudashkin, Masha Tsigal, Elena Suprun, Maxim Rapoport.

Barbie doll cost
The cost is determined depending on the uniqueness, the number of copies and the "age" of the doll: stamped Barbie - $ 20, unique - from $ 2 thousand to $ 50 thousand, dolls produced no more than 50 copies - $ 500 to $ 1.5 thousand (this is mainly collectible dolls). The latest dolls are made from the most expensive materials, they have natural hair, expensive clothes. The most expensive Barbie cost $ 100 thousand, this doll's dress is decorated with real diamonds.

The biggest Barbie collections
Demi Moore can be called one of the owners of the largest Barbie collection. Her collection is estimated at $ 1 million, although she's not only Barbie. And Tony Mattia from Brighton has half of all Barbie doll models. And his collection is considered the largest in the whole world.
Museums also collect Barbie collections. For example, the Taishan Museum - 600 dolls; in Holland - 2500 dolls; in New York - 1,500 copies; but in California - 21,000 Barbies (this collection was bought by Mattel). The dream of all Barbie collectors is the "slant-eyed" Barbie. It is not easy to find this model, because these are not produced now.

Barbie's personal life
Barbie and her friend Ken met in 1961 on the set of a commercial and were together for 43 years. But then Barbie decided to leave Ken, as she decided that he was old-fashioned and in general she was not interested in him. Ken, after some thought, decided to change his image and his lifestyle.To do this, he consulted a famous Hollywood designer who helped him with this. In 2006, Barbie and Ken met again at a fair in New York. And Barbie decided to return to Ken again.

Business and social life of Barbie
Barbie takes part in many magazines for girls. For example, the licensed magazine "Barbie" is published in many countries, including Russia. These magazines are very popular. In addition, Barbie has starred in 10 films. She began filming in 2001. Every year one film comes out in which we meet new Barbie dolls and her new friends. Barbie has starred in other films, or rather cartoons: "The Twelve Dancing Princesses", "Barbie and the Nutcracker", "The Magic of Pegasus", "Princess of the Island".
In the sale of DVDs with Barbie in the first place, girls from 2 to 12 are interested in them.

Barbie is a doll that adults and children play with. For some, Barbie has become the standard of beauty and imitation, for others, a dream and fantasy about something that is not real. Playing with a Barbie doll, girls think much earlier about adulthood, about what values ​​in this life and how to achieve them. By the way, their parents should teach them this. Someone simply does not like Barbie because of the imitation of the American style, which penetrates more and more into our lives, to our children, who were brought up earlier on Cheburashki, Buratino and other cute, funny and kind little people. Apparently, everything needs a measure.