Barbie: From Doll to Cultural Icon

Barbie: From Doll to Cultural Icon — page 3 — B rbie MERICAN EXPRESS MATTEL CHEVROLET Barbie Dolby Barbie World Premiere rbie RICAN PRESS Dolby AMERICA EXPRES CHEVROLET Barbie MATTEL DEVRELE Margot Robbie walks the pink carpet on July 9 2023. She played Barbie in the blockbuster movie

Barbie: From Doll to Cultural Icon — page 4 — 7 On July 9 2023 the pink carpet was rolled out It was the world premiere of the highly anticipated movie Barbie The film's stars singers from its soundtrack and other celebrities posed for photos in Los Angeles California Many on the pink carpet based their looks on the beloved doll and focus of the movie Barbie The doll was created in 1959. Barbie rose to fame and children around the world played with the iconic toy The 2023 film focused on what would happen if Barbie traveled into the real world Greta Gerwig cowrote and directed the movie The movie trailer proclaimed If you love Barbie this movie is for you If you hate Barbie this movie is for you People flocked to movie theaters to see the film Many people wore Barbie's signature color pink Some dressed up as different versions of Barbie The film made 162 million its first weekend It was the largest opening weekend for a film directed by a woman Barbie went on to make over 1.4 billion in theaters Barbie was only the second movie ever to make over a billion dollars in the box office and the first with a female director to do so The movie's soundtrack Barbie had

Barbie: From Doll to Cultural Icon — page 5 — 8 eleven Grammy nominations The film was the biggest movie of 2023. Many expected it would be nominated for and win awards It led nominations for the Golden Globes with nine nominations and for the Critics Choice Award with eighteen nominations It also got eight Oscar nominations People's excitement for the film came from their passion for Barbie Some grew up playing with the doll Barbie gave children especially girls a way to imagine what they might be like when they grew up Mattel the company that makes Barbie estimates that every second two Barbies are sold somewhere in the world Ruth Handler and Lilli In the early 1950s Ruth Handler was watching her daughter Barbara and her friends play when an idea struck The girls were playing with paper dolls These toys were cut from printed illustrations often from the back pages of comic books Children played with many types of paper dolls portraying families to animals Barbara was drawn to the ones of young women that could be dressed in paper outfits Handler watched as Barbara and her friends made up stories about their dolls The girls spoke through their dolls pretending to be adults Handler realized that the girls were using the dolls to imagine their futures

Barbie: From Doll to Cultural Icon — page 6 — 9 A paper doll with accessories But the paper dolls were flimsy and couldn't stand up Their clothes were only held on with paper tabs and often fell off Handler thought the girls should have real dolls with real clothes Then they could focus on playing and let their imaginations take off Handler spent a lot of time thinking about toys In 1945 Mattel was created by Handler her husband Elliot Handler and their business partner Harold Matson At first the company sold picture frames It then made furniture for dollhouses Its first hit was a guitar toy a Uke similar to a ukulele Soon Matson quit working for Mattel leaving it to the Handlers They made toys the company's focus Ruth Handler mostly managed sales until she had her idea for a

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