This week, as a sure doll continues to dominate the world, I’m revisiting Barbie-related Day by day Heller posts from the previous. This text initially ran on March 1, 2016.
For the primary time, Barbie hits the runway in Paris on the Musée des Arts décoratifs (109 rue de Rivoli). And it’s about time. Who’s extra consultant of trend than she?
Since Barbie’s introduction in 1959, her influence, particularly on the postwar era, has been revolutionary. Barbie as invented character entails the more and more dissonant notions concerning the energy of ladies, in addition to racial and ethnic consciousness, not less than in American society. An illuminating ebook printed just a few years in the past by former cartoonist, cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie proprietor, titled Ceaselessly Barbie: An Unauthorized Biography of a Actual Doll, locations the getting old toy star in cultural, historic context. And what a historical past …
From Kirkus: “Barbie’s voluptuous physique, says Lord, alongside along with her numerous incarnations, together with trend mannequin and photographer, made her a ‘courageous, new, vaguely egocentric and decidedly subversive heroine’ within the mould of Helen Gurley Brown’s Intercourse and the Single Woman. Barbie by no means had a husband; she earned her personal hold and all the time wore a smile (and a wonderful outfit). True, Mattel launched a boyfriend for her in 1961, however Ken ‘was a mere accent,’ Lord cracks, ‘a drip with critically abridged genitalia who wasn’t crucial in her life.’ Lord’s intelligence and good humor deliver a brand new angle to feminist visions of well-liked tradition and the ladies who adore it.”
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In celebration of the Musée, the remainder of this submit will probably be en Français, however you non-speakers will get the drift.
C’est la première fois que Barbie® fait l’objet d’une véritable invitation dans une establishment muséale française. Connu pour ses collections de design et de mode, de jouets et de publicité, le musée des Arts décoratifs est le lieu idéal pour mettre à l’honneur cette poupée iconique dont l’histoire se nourrit de sources multiples, en l’inscrivant pleinement dans une histoire culturelle et sociale du jouet aux XXe et XXIe siècles. 700 Poupées Barbie sont ainsi déployées sur 1500 m2, en regard d’œuvres points des collections du musée (poupées anciennes, robes), mais aussi d’œuvres d’artistes contemporains, de paperwork, journaux, photographs, vidéo, qui contextualisent les « vies de Barbie ».
L’astronaut
Surgeon
Tres Stylish
Ohh, la, la
Sporting Dior
Profession lady
Flight attendant
Mad Males Barbie
