Barbie: The Fashion History of an Icon, Part II
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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Lavenia's Black Barbie
Lavenia worked with a black hair designer and a Barbie sculptor to create quote, the total look of a black woman. She adjusted her facial and skin and hair features accordingly. Hispanic Barbie was undeniably important in terms of representation but it did so in what many saw as a racialized stereotype.
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