Step inside a Barbie world at the Design Museum’s new Barbie exhibition

After last year’s Barbenheimer juggernaut, the Design Museum was faced with a choice for its next exhibition — dolls or bombs? They went with dolls, lots and lots of dolls.
All different and yet all the same.
In the toy world, a brand that lasts half a decade is considered a success, so what to make of Barbie — a doll that’s been around for 13 half-decades and is still going strong?Barbie was born 65 years ago into a world where children’s dolls were expected to be