Bratz is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, but according to president and creative director Jasmin Larian Hekmat, ...

Pax Ressler and Jackie Soro have hard opinions on American Girl dolls, the educational toy prized by millennials and subsequent generations. Samantha is rich and pretty. Felicity is a horse girl.

American Girl began 40 years ago in Madison and then Middleton with dolls and books about girls living in different historical eras. Founder Pleasant Rowland insisted American Girls materials be ...

When arts and books editor Jim Higgins told me there was a new book coming out about the history of American Girl, I don’t think he knew what he was in for. An explosion of nostalgia from the ...

Mattel’s American Girl doll brand is celebrating its 40th anniversary by bringing back its Historical Characters line of 18-inch dolls. Mattel announced on Tuesday that the dolls in the American Girl ...

Wake up, millennial women—it’s our time. The original American Girl dolls are all coming back to stores this spring in a new launch, the brand tells Glamour exclusively. Yes, I mean every single ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. By now you’ve likely seen them: 14.5 ...

"This ruins the whole point of the historical dolls!!" one critic said Catherine Santino is a Style Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She began contributing to PEOPLE in 2022 and joined the staff full time ...

American Girl dolls are entering their "Modern Era" — but fans of the originals want them to remain a thing of the past. The company debuted in 1986 with its first three Historical characters: plucky ...

American Girl is playing around with a classic. To mark its 40th anniversary, the toy company has given its iconic line of Historical dolls a makeover to fit in with contemporary times as part of the ...

People can be very protective when it comes to their childhood nostalgia. So when Mattel gave six of the original historical American Girl dolls “modern-era” makeovers for a new line of dolls, the ...