Barbie: The Fashion History of an Icon, Part III (Dressed Classic)

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The final episode of our Barbie fashion history series explores Barbie's flowering into a fully fledged fashion icon in the 21st century and what that means in terms of diversity and representation for Barbie, in front of and behind the seams.

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0:00.0	Dressed listeners, please enjoy this episode from the Dressed archive of over 500 plus shows.
0:06.6	You have been very patient with us, and we assure you Dressed will be back with all new content in the form of season 8 very soon.
0:13.7	We have so many wonderful things up our sleeves that we cannot wait to share with you.
0:17.7	But until then, please consider heading to Dhisthistory.com, where you'll find
0:21.2	information regarding our upcoming fashion history tours of Paris and New York, which are both
0:26.4	open for registration and selling fast. And while you are there, also consider signing up for our
0:31.7	upcoming online course offerings, which include what women wore to the revolution coming your way in May.
0:38.2	More from Dressed coming your way very soon.
0:41.0	Dressed, the history of fashion, is a production of Dressed Media.
1:08.6	Music With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day, we all get dressed.
1:15.1	Welcome to Dressed, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who but when of why we wear.
1:20.5	We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan, and Cassidy Zachary.
1:29.5	Welcome, dress listeners, to part three and the conclusion of our series on the fashion history of Barbie, who we have clearly established at this point is so much more than just a plastic child's toy. And actually,
1:36.6	so much more than the originally promised two episodes, April is weird. Why am I not surprised?
1:43.0	Just saying. So in Barbie's 60 plus years, she has become a pop
1:48.7	cultural, global, and fashion phenomenon who is both a reflection of any given time within
1:54.1	which she lives, as much as she is a central part of any number of conversations in that time
1:59.0	surrounding identity, representation, gender,
2:02.4	race, sexuality, and those conversations, of course, continue into the present day.
2:07.0	We concluded Tuesday's episode in the 1980s, which witnessed Barbie's transition from being a doll
2:12.6	wearing fashions inspired by contemporary fashion designers to a doll being dressed by many of those same fashion
2:19.6	designers, including Oscar de Laurenta, who was the first fashion designer to officially license
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