Barbie: Four Decades of Fashion, Fantasy, and Fun

by Marco Tosa

Book Overview

The Barbie phenomenon is documented by a doll expert who covers in detail her history, her many incarnations, her connection with famous starlets and designers, and her forthcoming, more anatomically... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810940086
• ISBN13: 9780810940086
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

i didn't read this, but i think my sister liked it

my sister is 9 or 10 or something. its hers. i hope she liked it

A wonderful book!

This book is very good,really... I learned how to recognize Barbie head molds by period,learnd about the world's fashion history in the ultimate forty years and became much more a Barbie lover than before I knew this book...

FOUR DECADES OF FUN WITH BARBIE

THE BOOK HAD SOLID INFORMATION, WAS SUPPORTED. IT HAD GREAT PICTURES. I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THAT THE BOOK HELP ME LEARN MORE ABOUT BARBIE!

Tosa really puts all the info and facts you want in here!

Since an Italian writer, he revolves a little more around the Italian part of Barbie (i.e., the fasions, models from Italy, excerts from Italian magazines, etc.) but he does go through a lot of the very famous styles that made Barbie "Barbie" like Enchanted evening, Solo in the Spotlight, Busygal, etc. There is also a 4 page visual on the steps in making a Barbie which I thought was pretty neat. He also shows about 16 of the around the world barbies. And lots of special edition ones too. A very good book; anyone who wants to know about the "special" barbies should get this book