In a Barbie world: The most famous doll in the globe turns 60

Barbie has turned 60 – and somehow she doesn’t have a wrinkle in sight, writes Suzanne Harrington

Barbie hits 60 this year. Almost a senior citizen. Does anyone care, or has she long been relegated to the mad doll collectors, the box-fresh fetishists? Does Gen Z even know who she is? Is she really the kind of thing Millennials would give to their kids? After all, writes Peggy Orenstein in Girls & Sex, “Barbie is (a) made of plastic and (b) has no vagina.” What does she mean, if anything, to the toy buying parents of 2019?