Mattel Partners with Carolina Herrera for Unique Barbie Doll

Venezuelan fashion designer Carolina Herrera was honored on the thirty seventh annual Hispanic Heritage Awards on the John F. Kennedy Middle yesterday, Sept. 5. To rejoice the dignity, Mattel designed a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll in her likeness. 

The doll is carrying a customized couture robe Herrera wore to the New York Metropolis Ballet’s Annual Fall Gala final October, which was designed by Wes Gordon, Inventive Director of Carolina Herrera. 

“Carolina Herrera and Barbie are each icons synonymous with power in femininity,” Gordon says. “I used to be thrilled to attend the New York Metropolis Ballet Fall Gala final 12 months with Mrs. Herrera wearing one in every of my designs, and to have this look in signature Herrera Pink and Pink immortalized on this approach makes it all of the extra particular.”

The doll can be featured in an unique editorial on the @BarbieStyle Instagram together with two dolls carrying runway seems from the Carolina Herrera Fall/Winter 2024 assortment. Three followers could have the possibility to personal these dolls by bidding for them within the Bidding For Good Public sale with proceeds going in the direction of Fixing Children’ Most cancers, a company that funds breakthrough remedy choices to treatment youngsters with pediatric most cancers. The public sale goes dwell at present, Sept. 6, and closes on Tuesday, Sept. 10.

“Barbie has at all times been a really particular doll for all the ladies I do know,” Herrera says. “Many have been created to characterize a number of variations of ladies by way of the years, and I hope this one could make a whole lot of youngsters very completely satisfied by way of our donation to Fixing Child’s Most cancers.”

Barbie may even make an look at Carolina Herrera’s New York Vogue Week present on Monday, Sept. 9.