
He's (Not) Just Ken: The True History of Barbie’s Beau
There's More to That
The Evolution of Ken Shave
Mattel's official line was that this was an attempt to modernize Ken based on the results of a survey that was conducted among their customers. Emily: I think they're really have a much more ethnically ambiguous Ken. "I will be very interested to see sales from the Barbie movie, right? Because what is really funny about the way they're doing this," she says.
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