Barbie Holiday softly falling snow

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of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession

For a princess waiting for her prince

Barbie Holiday softly falling snowA cultural icon draped in couture and controversy, Barbie emerges in these pages as more than a doll. She is a mirror of shifting ideals and infinite possibility. Conceived in 1959 by Ruth Handler, a visionary at odds with midcentury norms, Barbie stepped boldly into a world that had yet to imagine women beyond hearth and home. This Assouline edition traces her evolution decade by decade, chronicling how a ten inch figure in high heels came to embody