In 1957, Mattel's Ms. Ruth found a doll called BildLilli in Germany, after repackaging, design, 1959, the doll was named Ruth's youngest daughter Barbara's nickname "Barbie", debuted at the New York Toy Fair. The first Barbie wore a black and white striped bathing suit, sunglasses, and high heels.　Since then, Barbie has changed her look, not only wearing the most popular and traditional costumes from different countries, but also changing her hairstyle and even her skin color. Today, will soon usher in the 45th birthday of Barbie is still sought after by countless people - angel face, devil body, Barbie is always synonymous with fashion. The first Barbie In the 50s, Barbie was the first doll in the United States with bendable legs. To the 60s, Barbie's hair color has changed, girls like to make her a variety of hairstyles. 70s Barbie has a bendable wrist, elbow, and has a foot joint, which allows Barbie to participate in gymnastics, equestrian, ballet ...... The first Barbie In the 50s, Barbie was the first doll in the U.S. to have a bendable leg. By the 1960s, Barbie's hair color had changed, and girls liked to make all kinds of hairstyles for her.In the 1970s, Barbie had bendable wrists, elbows, and had foot joints, which allowed Barbie to participate in gymnastics, equestrian, and ballet ...... World Famous Clothing Designer Series by Christine Dior By the 1990s , a number of world-renowned designers joined the Barbie design team. Each designer designed Barbie to represent their unique style, from Polo's classic camel fur jacket with a navy blue coat look, to CK's street wear, and Givenchy's elegant black dress, bringing Barbie a completely different look. This is the work of Dior's senior exclusive designer Gianfranco Ferre. Audrey Hepburn from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" The Hollywood Collection After seeing the glamor of Hollywood stars, Barbie dolls were transformed into all kinds of actresses, and Hepburn donated the royalties from the doll's portrait to charity to help with world hunger. Ballerina Lighter than Air The Barbie collecting craze spread among adults in the 80's. Mattel sold out 300,000 of the first ceramic Barbie when it was released, and the ceramic Barbie, released in 2001, was inspired by the famous painting "On Stage". This modeling was the winner of the 2001 DOTY "Doll of the Year" award.　Barbie's Swan Lake In the 21st century, Barbie's image is even more ubiquitous. Just recently, Barbie was transformed into Odette in a new rendition of the animated film "Barbie Swan Lake". Barbie's Swan Lake" is a change from the simple princess-prince plot and tells the story of an ordinary girl who, with courage, wisdom and tenacity, overcomes the forces of evil. Barbie plays Odette in an elegant gown and Prince Daniel is played by Barbie's boyfriend Kenny.　Fairy Tale Series of Sleeping Beauty Aiming at children's collection series, fairy tale is naturally the best object, Sleeping Beauty can be regarded as the sweetest one in this series. Barbie, she is not just a doll changeable brand-name clothes and unchanged handsome boyfriend led many years of female pompous wind, some people scoffed at, said Barbie is a tool to let women fall, but also some people love it as life, said Barbie gave all ordinary women a little dream. Over the past 42 years, Barbie has gone through a variety of changes in looks, race, skin color, hair, language and even clothing.　On April 27, Ruth Handler passed away in Los Angeles, and more than one billion Barbie dolls in more than 150 countries around the world lost their mothers. These skinny, leggy, thick-haired beauty dolls are not only the world's most famous dolls, but equally famous cultural icons.　　Ruth Handler, whose daughter's name was "Barbara" and whose choice of toys inspired her invention, gave her daughter's nickname to the new plastic dolls. Barbie, born in 1959, is 45 years old and has outlived the Cabbage Patch dolls and teddy bears that were also popular. No one knows why this is, not even her creator, Ruth Handler, can explain it. Longevity, both in the toy world and in real life, is something that contains an element of mystery. Ruth Handler was once asked why Barbie was doing so well. She just smiled and replied, "I'm a marketing genius." Maybe she was. But MattelToy, the company she helped found, produces many other types of toys, and not only did none of them outperform Barbie, but they did die young.　　From dolls to cultural symbols America loves to celebrate success, even if it's not clear why. Amidst the cheers, Barbie finally transcended the definition of a toy and became an immortal symbol. She caught the eye of pop master Andy Warhol, who was no less enamored of her than he was of Marilyn Monroe, and she lived on American radios almost every day for a period in the late '90s, even though it was the Danish singing group Aqua that sang "Barbie". Aqua; and she has been placed in the U.S. government's time container as a representation of 20th-century life. Some cultural critics call Barbie one of the archetypes of womanhood, a modern-day Mona Lisa, while to feminists she is a slut, harmful to the minds of children. Even the academy, with its seriousness, has had to condescend to study the "Barbie phenomenon". Students in sociology classes are asked to complete assignments such as: What criticisms have been leveled at Barbie for being a role model? Do you think these criticisms should be taken into account by manufacturers? There is no "right" answer to these questions, but there is a series of reasoning that must be done before a value judgment can be made.　　Regardless of all the opinions, one thing is certain: Barbie was the first living woman in the doll design industry, no longer a passive infant. Barbie's adult-oriented design opened up the horizons of little girls who could perceive the world beyond kindergarten through Barbie, allowing them to experience all aspects of adult life with Barbie. From beach girls to politicians, Barbie's ever-changing image inspires children's imaginations to be like Barbie when they grow up. As Ruth herself put it: with dolls like these, little girls can realize that they are capable of achieving any dream.　　The Birth of Barbie Ruth Handler is another classic example of the American Dream. Her parents emigrated from Poland to Denver, Colorado, in the hold of a steamship to avoid military service. Her father was a blacksmith, and her mother was exhausted from raising ten children, but the hardships of life didn't seem to take much of a toll on the family, and Ruth Handler writes in her memoirs that as the youngest, she didn't lack for pampering as she grew up.　　At the age of 19, Ruth traveled to Hollywood alone, not to break into the film industry, but to study industrial design there. At the school she met Handler, whom she married shortly thereafter, and in 1942 the couple started the Martel Company in a garage, where the main product was picture frames, and then added a business designing and manufacturing furniture for children's playrooms. After a few years, the company began to make money and the main business shifted to producing toys. Good business conditions allowed Ruth Handler to afford a trip to Europe. In Switzerland, she found a German doll called "Lilly the Blonde" (said to be based on a stripper), who had an impeccable body with all the physical attributes and was dressed in a very "revealing" way, seemingly designed to arouse the desires of young men. She was dressed in a very "revealing" way, seemingly designed to arouse the desires of young men.　　Despite her shyness, Ruth bought three "Lillies" and brought them back to the United States. She says she had been thinking of a "grown-up" doll for children, but her male colleagues in the company said there would be no demand: children like dolls that look like children. But the allure of "Lily" was too great, and Ruth could not resist designing her American version of Barbie. The doll was a "grown-up" with full breasts, but wrapped tightly in a beautiful dress. The first Barbie dolls were made in Japan and made their debut at the 1959 U.S. Toy Fair under the title "Barbie - Role Model for Girls". Barbie was an unexpected success for Ruth, with 350,000 sold in the first year, and to this day, more than one billion Barbie dolls have been sold around the world.　　According to Martel, an 11-year-old American girl may have owned 10 Barbie dolls, while a French girl of the same age owns five. But millions of adult women buy Barbie as well, "To them, no matter what age, she's not just a doll," says Ruth Handler, "she's become part of them." And Barbie's collectors are gender-neutral: a Barbie doll priced at $3 in 1959 could be worth $5,000 now, if well preserved.　　Forever innocent?　　"Beauty with a thousand faces" is one of the reasons for Barbie's longevity, she can be a dancer, a policeman, a doctor, an astronaut; she can be a Chinese doll, an Indian doll, a black doll, anything, except for her oldest ancestor, "Lilly". Although Barbie is physically attractive, she has no sexual characteristics on her body except for her ample breasts. The question often arises from children who know better: "Why doesn't Barbie have a bellybutton?" That's when moms say, "That's enough, kid, any more questions and I'm going to have to put Barbie away."　　When confronted by feminists, Ruth Handler says her Barbie is a working woman, not a vase with an empty head. But Barbie seems to have had too many careers, and at 43 her marriage prospects remain bleak. She had a childhood boyfriend named Ken, a name derived from Ruth Handler's son. For years, Barbie and Ken were in a relationship, and who knew what Ken was thinking? Born in the innocent 1950s, Barbie may feel a little overwhelmed by having to cope with an age that has changed so much, and Barbie's friends of all ages are equally confused.　　　　The Legend of Barbie ◆ There are 45 ethnic groups that Barbie has endorsed.　　◆ Barbie has had 43 kinds of pets. Her first pet was a horse named Dancer.　　◆ There are more than 80 professions that Barbie has endorsed.　　◆ The length of all sold Barbie families, with heads and feet connected, has exceeded the distance of 7 circles of the earth's circumference.　　◆ More than one billion pieces of clothing have been produced for Barbie and her companions to wear from 1959 to the present, and about 100 new Barbie outfits are introduced each year.　　◆ Barbie's appearance has been revised and improved more than 500 times to become what it is today.　　◆ The best-selling Barbie is "Barbie with Long Hair," with hair that stretches from the top of her head to her toes.　　Barbie*** has three sisters, Chubby, who came out in 1964, Stacy, who was introduced in 1992, and Little Kelly, who debuted in 1995.