Still loving Stylist Shiona Turini's Black Barbie Series

"It was important for me to reflect Barbie as an icon through the lens of black culture during Black History Month," Turini said in a statement.

After the mark of the 40th Anniversary Stylist Shiona Turini comes together with Barbie in honoring black beauty. Her inspirations came from the first black Barbie debut in 1980 with a fabulous red dress look and ranged from showing off the different color pallets and shades of the black woman. The looks root to ever black female and embraces culture. In respects to the beauty, Barbie and Shiona Turini showed out.

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Black Barbie dressed in... || I grew up obsessed with @barbie and while she was one of my first fashion icons, I clearly remember searching shelves for a doll that looked like me and coming up empty handed. The first black Barbie was introduced in 1980 - in a sparkly red dress with an Afro pick in her hair. Here she is, on her customized throne, surrounded by friends created and styled by me. I hope other young children, and adult Barbie lovers, are as excited to see themselves reflected in these dolls as I am. Thank you @barbiestyle - for collaborating with me to create barbies with braids, finger waves and everything in between. Chicks by the layers, all different flavors. And even a curvy doll, in a crop top, with waist length twists. Baby Shiona is PROUD. Representation matters and I’m so grateful to be a part of this moment.

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40th Anniversary First Black Barbie® Doll