As we have already said on occasions, it is very difficult to find the name of those artists who illustrated the world of Barbie. Some of them were top illustrators like Angelo Bioletto of whom we talked about in the past and Tom Tierney the king of paper dolls.
In the year 2000, the Barbie Fashion Model Collection was created. The line designed by Robert Best and intended for adult collectors, recovered the 1959 facemold to bring to life a world of haute couture around Barbie. Only one detail was missing... the material had to look like porcelain so Silkstone was born.
In 1959 Disney launches The Sleeping Beauty inspired by a Charles Perrault story from 1697. Earlier versions like the Basile's dark "Sun, Moon and Talia" show that Perrault's version wasn't the first but wouldn't be the last either for the folk tale would bounce around falling in the hands of the Grimm Brothers in Germany and in the music sheets of Tchaikovsky in the tsarist Russia. Come and see the tale of the most famous narcolepsy case in fairytales.
Can anything say "Jackie Kennedy" more than this reproduction of a Bubblecut Barbie with the mythical Pillbox hat on top of that characteristic bouffant hairstyle?
It was created in 1968 by the designer and sculptor Tino Juan who was inspired by another Famosa doll, Pierina. The company's flagship toy snuck into 1970s homes under a foreign name, Nancy.
