Photograph by Kenji Aoki for TIME
TIME

A Barbie for Every Body

Barbie's new body shape

Beauty ideals have changed. Can the blond icon catch up?

Barbie’s dress won’t fit. I’m sitting in a bright pink room at Mattel’s headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., playing with a Barbie that only 20 people in the world know exists. Her creation has been kept so secret that the designers code-named the endeavor Project Dawn so that even their spouses wouldn’t be tipped off to her existence…

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