Barbie on Shine

Some Designers Really Hate "Fat" Women (Like Barbie!?!)

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It’s all about change in the fashion world right now—designers are livestreaming their runway shows (or trying anyway), shoppers can snap up fall Chloe bags on their iPhones, and magazines like Glamour and Marie Claire are making an effort to include plus-size women in their formerly stick-thin pages. But not everyone is down with the plan, and design legends Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Louboutin seem to be the most conscientious objectors, today anyway.

When asked what he thought about German magazine Brigitte‘s decision to ban thin models from its pages, Old Looselips Lagerfeld quipped, “No one wants to see curvy women. You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying thin models are ugly.” He deems the whole practice “absurd.”

If you think that’s offensive, check out shoe guru Louboutin...

Liv dolls: The non-skanky, “imperfect” dolls we’d actually buy for our kids

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The Barbie vs. Bratz war died earlier this year, when Mattel ate up the Bratz enterprise along with their bare midriffs. Toy company Spin Master has just introduced the "Liv Dolls" which are supposed to look more like real girls than either of its predecessors and come with changeable wigs…

User post: Barbie Versus Motherhood

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I never liked playing with baby dolls as a child. As many of my friends embraced pretending to be a mommy, or even playing dress-up, I was disinterested. My mother stayed home, as did most of my friend's mothers, and she was wonderful and I respected her (and still do). However, these games…

Barbie Does Campy.

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by Risa Green (Tales from the Mommy Track)

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks, you probably know that the Barbie doll turned fifty this month. Now, if you read this column…