As Barbie celebrates her 60th birthday on Saturday, her longest-running clothing designer has defended the iconic doll’s thin body against criticism of promoting unrealistic body image. Carol Spencer ...

Mattel Television is developing a small-scale reality competition series for one of the world’s biggest fashion icons: Barbie. The studio is co-producing “Barbie Fashion Battle,” a reality competition ...

Which Barbie doll clothes are best? Since Barbie arrived on the scene in the ’50s, she has had more than 200 careers, as a fashion model, astronaut, ballerina, scientist, lifeguard, firefighter and ...

Carol Spencer began working as a designer for Mattel in 1963, where she spent 35 years designing clothes for Barbie dolls before retiring in 1998. Now 90 years old, she has hundreds of dolls whose ...