1973: Moving from his plastic molded hair to a more “natural” style, Mod Hair
Totally Hair Barbie (also known as Ultra Hair Barbie in Europe) is a fashion doll, in the Barbie line by Mattel, that was released in 1992. The doll's extra-long hair reached all the way to her toes and at the time, she had the longest hair ever for a Barbie doll at 11.5 inches in length.
Ken® doll has curly brunette hair with a close-shaven mustache and beard.
Technically, Ken has no official age (he is a doll, after all) although he was first introduced as Barbie's boyfriend on March 11, 1961, which means he has been around for 62 years. (Barbie was created in 1959, which would make her 64.)
Kenneth Sean Carson is a fashion doll and fictional character invented by Elliot Handler and introduced by American toy company Mattel in 1961 as the counterpart of Barbie, who was introduced two years earlier.
Ken met Barbie in 1961 on the set of their first television commercial together. The couple fell in love and started dating. Barbie broke up with Ken on Valentine's Day in 2004.
February 14, 2004: Barbie and Ken officially broke up.
The newspaper assigned the split to Ken's failure to commit and Barbie's excitement to commit, wearing multiple wedding gowns. This was also a year that Barbie ran for president, so she was quite busy.
Ninety-six-year-old style icon Iris Apfel has become the oldest person ever to be immortalized as a Barbie doll.
Iris Apfel Just Became The Oldest Person To Have A Barbie Made After Her. Iris Apfel, the lovable 96-year-old fashion icon, is officially the oldest person to ever be turned into a Barbie doll, CNN reports.
The first Barbie doll was officially unveiled on March 9, 1959, at the New York Toy Fair and 60 years later she's still a sensation among children and the adults who grew up playing with her and her friends.
According to the 1960s Random House books, Ken's full name is Kenneth Sean Carson. In Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures, he is one of Barbie's best friends and next-door neighbor.
Soon thereafter, Toy Fair 2004 introduced another male doll in to Barbie's Cali Girl beach-themed line of toys. This was Blaine, a boogie boarding Australian native, who is now dating Barbie.
Ken has always been a bit of a metrosexual, with that perfect yellow-plastic hair and chiseled abs, but he was fine when Barbie needed arm candy for a night out (on those occasions when we shoved her teensy feet into teensier high heels and wiggled her into an evening gown). He was the Fred to her Daphne.
The Totally Hair doll is the best selling Barbie doll in Mattel history, with over 10 million dolls sold worldwide.
Consumer reception. Kitsch-minded gay men responded to this press by buying the doll in record numbers, making Earring Magic Ken the best-selling Ken model in Mattel's history.
Barbie Fashionistas Doll #150 with No-Hair Look Wearing Pink Floral Dress, White Booties & Earrings, Toy for Kids 3 to 8 Years Old.
Chelsea debuted as a little sister to Barbie and the youngest of the Roberts sisters in 2011.
Barbie's official birthday is March 9, 1959 even though she was 19 years old when she was born! If you consider Barbie to have been 0 years old when she was born, she would be 64 as of March 9, 2023. If you consider the fact that she was born at age 19, Barbie would be 83 years old as of March 9, 2023.
First introduced in 1959, the Barbie doll is officially 64 years old.
This dollhouse wasn't the typical pink, plastic dream house made by Mattel, but a more traditional looking house that was "Barbie-sized." Among the rooms was a nursery for a Barbie baby, which posed a problem: Barbie is technically not married and, technically, she can never have a baby.
Teen Skipper's packaging revealed that she is now "16 years old". If she was nine when she was introduced (and she was), when Barbie was billed as the "Famous Teen-Age Fashion Doll", then Barbie could not realistically be considered a teenager any longer.
Did you know #Barbie has 3 sisters? Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea.
Malibu Ken, the first African-American Ken doll, came along in 1982. Growing up, my parents didn't buy me Barbie dolls because they didn't look like me.
4. He is exactly 12 inches tall, which makes him half an inch taller than Barbie.
2009: Ken came to life during New York Fashion Week to help Barbie celebrate her 50th anniversary in style. The duo made their first appearance together in years on the runway at her first New York Fashion Week show.