The Joan Holloway 'Mad Men' Barbie doll had me at hello
New York Post
I was a boy who played with Barbie -- no shock or shame there. But that time has long since passed ... or at least that was the assumption I operated under until I laid eyes on the hyper-stylized collection of "Mad Men" dolls Barbie plans t...
Advertising: ‘Mad Men’ Dolls in a Barbie World
New York Times
The Barbie and Ken versions of the “Mad Men” characters are, from left, Joan Holloway, Roger Sterling, Don Draper and Betty Draper. Soon, the show will enter a realm of the pop-culture pantheon that its creator, Matthew Weiner, says has sur...
Barbie Does Betty Draper. And Don and Joan…
Twirlit
“Mommy, I want onnnnne!” Finally, a Barbie doll for the mature, sophisticated woman. Don and Betty Draper, Joan Holloway and Roger Sterling are stepping out of the 1960s and into a 21st Century toy store come July. Now instead of just watch...
Barbie bids high for ballet
BusinessWorld Online
The six-figure Doll 33 is the collaboration between Mr. Brumann and Rajo Laurel, and features a brooch in 18k white gold with six keishi pearls and 65 brilliant diamonds weighing 1.07 carats. The record in extravagance still goes to the pre...
Don’t hate Barbie because she’s beautiful
Examiner
As a little girl, mother made a point of buying only black Barbies . Great. Not a problem but the challenge though was not about beauty and race but where was Barbie going to go. She needed a car, a vehicle, to take her places and within a ...
Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart ...
ABC News
A photo first posted to the humor Web site FunnyJunk.com and later to the Latino Web site Guanabee.com shows packages of Mattel's Ballerina Barbie and Ballerina Teresa dolls hanging side by side at an unidentified store. The Teresa dolls, w...
Barbie Through the Years (and Ken too!)
ABC News
Sugar's Daddy Ken -- known to some as "Sugar Daddy Ken" -- is part of a line of Palm Beach dolls by Mattel's Barbie. Mattel says that the doll's name refers to Ken's pet West Highland Terrier, Sugar, which is included with the doll along wi...
PHOTO: The Red-Hot Christina Hendricks Barbie
People
Christina Hendricks, known for flaunting her va-va-voom figure on Mad Men , has been transformed, appropriately enough, into a Barbie doll. The $75 collectible is part of Mattel's show-inspired line that includes company partner Roger Sterl...
Barbie goes mad for "Mad Men"
Reuters
The ''Mad Men'' Barbie Collection in an image courtesy of Mattel. Credit: Reuters/Handout LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Look out Ken, there's a new man in Barbie's life. In fact, there are two of them, and they are "Mad Men". The makers of Barbie...
Your very own "Mad Men" Barbie - Mad Men -
Salon
The plastic protagonist of little girls' dreams is being molded into an even more depressing fantasy. In a new collectors' series, Barbie and Ken will be modeled after "Mad Men's" unhappily married couple, Betty and Don Draper, as well as t...
Barbie, Ken dolls styled after "Mad Men"
Denver Post
After three seasons, "Mad Men," the television series about advertising in the 1960s, has attained a level of popular-culture cachet that its creator, Matthew Weiner, said has surprised even him: Mattel plans to bring out versions of Barbie...
Book Review: Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Ruth Mosko Handler may have been — both literally and figuratively — the mother of Barbie and Ken, but her success was strictly business. As a corporate force to be reckoned with (founder of Mattel), she brought “Barbie” and “Ken” to the .....
Barbie's new Ken: Don Draper?
MSN Money
Move over, Ken. Don Draper is coming to Barbie land. Mattel (MAT) plans to introduce versions of Barbie and Ken based on the popular AMC show, "Mad Men," about an advertising agency and its employees in the 1960s. Don Draper, the advertisin...
Mad Men Gets Barbie'd
Entertainment Online
While we all wait for Mad Men to return with its forth season (When will it be back?! Argh!), Mattel is trying to ease the anxiety by releasing Barbie Collector dolls this July . It's perfect! Now you can make up your own storylines in the ...
Barbie gets a ’60s ’Mad Men’ makeover
Boston Herald
N EW YORK — Barbie and her signature hourglass figure are getting the "Mad Men" treatment. Mattel, Lionsgate and AMC announced a partnership on Wednesday to create four dolls in the likeness of characters from the influential, Emmy-winning ...