were only "accessories" to Barbie herself, Kitty Black Perkins, a former doll designer at Mattel tells PEOPLE exclusively, much like how Ken is still just an accessory to Barbie. And these dolls ...

The dolls also include a handful of other clothes they can change into, as well as a toy replica of the car Barbie drives in the film. Gosling's Ken dolls ... in Chic Black and White Outfit ...

You're looking unrealistically thin today! Ken: Funny, I was going to say the same about you. Narrator: Barbie is one of the most popular dolls in America. But that doesn't mean that she's loved ...

Many of the eight cups will highlight a different decade in the Malibu doll's history, one celebrates the first Black Barbie, ...

In her classic black and white knit swimsuit ... which plays on a portable phonograph player, in 1961. Two dolls, Barbie and Ken, stand on the phonograph. Formal wear Barbie & Ken are posed ...

In 1980, Mattel introduced the first Black and Latino Barbie and Ken dolls after previously relegating multicultural dolls to the friend role. It also released the first of a series of ...

The original muscle-less Ken (1961), and a handful of other versions, is here, along with other non-Barbie members of the family. But with the launch of the first Black and Hispanic Barbie dolls ...

“The cheerfulness of the black Oreo Fun Barbie, who was sold ... Barbie has had many doll pals over the years, including ...

She's Barbie: The doll that's launched the imaginations of ... the nature of her relationship with Ken is, well, complicated. Ken (full name: Kenneth Sean Carson) arrived on the scene in 1961 ...

but this was the first time a Black doll had the word Barbie," she said of Mattel's dolls. The very first Black Barbie (middle) debuted in 1980, 21 years after Barbie debuted on March 9 ...

Allan's box declared "all of Ken's clothes fit him ... is that in the opening scene, Barbie is wearing the black-and-white swimsuit from her very first doll in 1959. The woman on the bench ...