terça-feira, 24 de abril de 2012

50 Anos Da Barbie

Em 2009, Barbie comemorou seu aniversário de 50 anos. As comemorações incluíram um desfile em Nova York para a Semana da Moda Mercedes-Benz. Estilitas famosos contribuiram pra o evento incluindo Diane von Fürstenberg, Vera Wang, Calvin Klein, Bob Mackie, e Christian Louboutin
                                                          A Criação de Christian Louboutin

Barbie's 50th anniversary

In 2009, Barbie celebrated her 50th birthday. The celebrations included a runway show in New York for the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The event showcased fashions contributed by fifty well-known haute couturiers including Diane von Fürstenberg, Vera Wang, Calvin Klein, Bob Mackie, and Christian Louboutin.

História da Barbie!

A Barbie é uma boneca e foi criada por Ruth Handler, e o seu marido Elliot Handler em 1959, que tinham uma filha de nome Bárbara. Observavam Bárbara que brincava apenas com bonecas bebés quando criança. A menina era apaixonada por bonecas. Quando cresceu, já pré-adolescente, o seu pai observou que Bárbara ainda brincava com as bonecas. Então, a sua mãe, Ruth Handler, teve a ideia de criar uma boneca adolescente. O modelo original da Barbie foi baseado numa boneca erótica alemã. O primeiro lote de bonecas Barbie era tão parecido com a boneca original, que a Mattel teve de pagar uma indemnização.

History of Barbie!


Ruth Handler watched her daughter Barbara play with paper dolls, and noticed that she often enjoyed giving them adult roles. At the time, most children's toy dolls were representations of infants. Realizing that there could be a gap in the market, Handler suggested the idea of an adult-bodied doll to her husband Elliot, a co-founder of the Mattel toy company. He was unenthusiastic about the idea, as were Mattel's directors.
During a trip to Europe in 1956 with her children Barbara and Kenneth, Ruth Handler came across a German toy doll called Bild Lilli. The adult-figured doll was exactly what Handler had in mind, so she purchased three of them. She gave one to her daughter and took the others back to Mattel. The Lilli doll was based on a popular character appearing in a comic strip drawn by Reinhard Beuthin for the newspaper Die Bild-Zeitun. Lilli was a blonde bombshell, a working girl who knew what she wanted and was not above using men to get it. The Lilli doll was first sold in Germany in 1955, and although it was initially sold to adults, it became popular with children who enjoyed dressing her up in outfits that were available separately.
Upon her return to the United States, Handler reworked the design of the doll (with help from engineer Jack Ryan) and the doll was given a new name, Barbie, after Handler's daughter Barbara. The doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959. This date is also used as Barbie's official birthday.