If you've ever had a Barbie doll or you know someone who did chances are that Barbie was
dressed in one of the thousands of designs created by Carol Spencer during her unparalleled
reign as a Barbie fashion designer spanning than thirty-five years. Published in commemoration
of Barbie's sixtieth anniversary Dressing Barbie is a dazzling celebration of the clothes that
made America's favorite doll and the incredible woman behind them. Illustrated with more than
100 full-color photographs including many never-before-seen images of rare and one-of-a-kind
pieces from Spencer's private archive Dressing Barbie is a treasure trove of some of the best
and most iconic Barbie looks from the early 1960s until the late 1990s. Along with
behind-the-scenes stories of how these designs came to be Spencer reminisces about her
thrilling time at Mattel working with legendary figures such as Ruth Handler Barbie's creator
and Charlotte Johnson the original Barbie designer for a full inside look into life with the
beloved doll. Over the course of her career Spencer won many accolades. She was the first
designer to have her signature on the doll the first to go on a signing tour the first to
design a limited-edition Barbie for collectors and the designer of the biggest selling Barbie
of all time. Now she is the first member of the inner circle to reveal the fashion world of
the quintessential California girl as never before.
