Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection; Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Meet the woman behind Barbie. Ruth Handler is best known for inventing the Barbie doll in 1959 and serving as the first president ...

Nickolay Lamm, the creator of Lammily, the self-proclaimed "realistic Barbie," has another challenge for Mattel: a realistic Ken doll. Simply dubbed "Boy Lammily," this average-proportioned doll ...

“I don't know about my favorite,” Robbie said. “But this look was Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbies, favorite Barbie look," she reveals. "This is a Barbie from 1964 and Ruth Handler said ...

Even Barbie's birth, such as it was, sprung as a fully formed plastic woman, was a knock against traditional expectations: Her creator, Ruth Handler, noticed her daughter and her friends were more ...