Barbie collectors, some of whom have been die-hard fans since the 1960s, are watching a Barbie superbloom. And most couldn’t be happier for their girl.
By Pia Peterson Haggarty | Photographs and additional reporting by Emma Rose Milligan for The Wall Street Journal
Collectors and vendors for everything Barbie gathered at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando and browsed, attended workshops on making their own jewelry for dolls, bid for dolls for charity at a silent auction, and showed off at a fashion show. Kim Culmone, Mattel senior vice president of Barbie and fashion dolls, has been a designer for Barbie since 1999. She and her team worked on the dolls based on actors like Margot Robbie and Issa Rae for the movie. At the convention, she said “I get to watch life start to come into her through kids and collectors.”
Doll accessories are a market unto themselves—clothes, houses and cars that collectors have specially made for Barbie. Some of the priciest little extras are rare because they’re exactly what your mom would have sucked up in the vacuum cleaner. The little shoes, Ken’s keys to his car, and Skipper’s pencil for doing schoolwork are hot commodities precisely because they were easy for children to lose.
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