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Bob Mackie's Barbies: Fifty-Plus Reasons the Doll Counts as Fashion

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Mattel is honoring Bob Mackie, the costumer who spent decades dressing Barbie the way he dressed his Hollywood clients. Over the course of his career, Mackie designed more than 50 different Barbie dolls for the company, and it's his touch that's credited with giving the doll her sense of red-carpet polish. The tribute treats the doll case the way this desk treats an archive: with the designer's name attached to every gown.

With reporting from WWD.

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