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For a princess waiting for her prince

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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

Barbie Holiday or green salad will lookA 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