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Burkha Barbie!

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One of the world’s most famous children’s toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover – wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby’s for Save The Children.

More than 500 Barbies went on show yesterday at the Salone dei Cinquecento, in Florence, Italy.
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Burkha Barbie: The iconic doll wearing traditional Islamic dress

Makers Mattel are backing the exhibition which is the work of Italian designer Eliana Lorena.

The auction is part of Barbie celebrations for her 50th anniversary this year. The UK’s biggest Barbie fan Angela Ellis, 35, has a collection of more than 250 dolls.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229760/Its-Barbie-burka-World-famous-doll-gets-makeover-hammer-50th-anniversary.html#ixzz0YNak7FMu

This entry was posted on November 30, 2009 at 2:12 PM and is filed under Refugee . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Burkha Barbie!”

  1. MonaLisa Says:
    December 3, 2009 at 1:49 AM

    tell me ! tell me! this is not happening ! are they trying to roll this world back to stone age or what?! or moving back to desert !? hell no …!!

    Reply

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