Oh, Barbie – she’s so fierce. Is there anything this 'empowered' woman can’t do? Shoe designer
Christian Louboutin obviously thinks not. He’s recently collaborated with the 51-year-old Mattel creation in a
net-a-porter exclusive to produce the newest fad in a long line of collectables: Dolly Forever Barbie and Cat Burglar Barbie.
The results are – it goes without saying – hilariously stupid. She comes with her own collection of four red-soled Louboutins; each pair in their own shoe box and bag. She’s "the perfect gift for fashion lovers". She also appears to be glad-wrapped in bin-liners.
But, like any versatile modern-day woman, Barbie is also proving that she can do
much more than high-fashion. Just this week a collaboration with cult American series Mad Men was announced (ka-ching!). In the past, she’s also been a vet, a nurse, a NASCAR Driver, a TV chef, a wedding stylist and a palaeontologist. She’s even denounced her white-collar roots and worked the cashier of Macca's.
Did you know that apart from these fetishised ideas of what a woman should be, Barbie has also helped the United States win the propaganda war? She’s been a Storm Trooper, a member of the U.S. Marine Corps, and has even run for the presidency (apparently voters weren’t convinced by her promise of world peace). She’s even donned an evening gown and practiced grass-roots activism in Ethiopia for UNICEF.
But, really, our favourite careers of Barbie are her unofficial ones. Like Trailer Park Barbie, and much worse that can’t be mentioned here.
And they say feminism is dead at
barbie.com.