‘Queen & Slim’ designer styled Black History Month Barbies

The creative brain at the rear of the motion picture “Queen & Slim” has designed Barbie’s most up-to-date appears, in honor of Black Historical past Month.

Mattel labored with costume designer Shiona Turini to outfit a set of Barbies in 10 diverse hair designs, pores and skin tones and overall body sorts.

“Thank you @barbiestyle — for collaborating with me to make Barbies with braids, finger waves and every thing in in between,” Turini writes in an Instagram caption saying the collaboration. “Chicks by the layers, all diverse flavors. And even a curvy doll, in a crop top, with waist size twists. Little one Shiona is Proud.”

Each search for the Barbies was inspired by a few color themes: monochromatic, snakeskin mixed with black and white and sherbet hues. However the outfits them selves are not for sale, the dolls modeling them are section of a new launch of Black Historical past Month Barbie dolls.

“My eyesight was to style assorted dolls in daring appears with themes noticed all through my get the job done, like contrasting snakeskin and leopard, demanding standard uniformity,” suggests Turini, even though adding that she invested a lot of childhood hours dressing Barbies.

“I grew up obsessed with @barbie and even though she was a single of my initial vogue icons, I obviously keep in mind seeking shelves for a doll that appeared like me and coming up empty handed,” she writes on Instagram.

Turini drew her inspiration from the initial black Barbie, introduced in 1980 dressed in a sparkling purple gown with an Afro. Turini’s purple collection pays homage to the doll. Mattel has also brought back that initial black Barbie, dressed in daring purple as a 40th anniversary black Barbie doll.

Currently, Mattel has been releasing a gamut of assorted dolls in diverse measurements, hues, talents and professions to retain up with the moments. Latest additions include the gender-neutral doll, the Barbie Fashionistas line, the Barbie Wellness collection and Choose Barbie.

Here’s a search at the inspiration at the rear of each individual collection.

On Instagram, Turini factors out that she is “the curvy Barbie in the crop top,” which is the fourth from the left. “Thank you @barbiestyle for earning my childhood dreams come true, customizing these @queenandslim inspired snake pores and skin boots + bodysuits, going through the painstaking process of supplying Barbie twists and enabling me the freedom to make some thing exclusive so that my neighborhood can see them selves represented in this sort of an iconic brand,” she writes on Instagram. “Life is very good in the desire home.”

In the purple collection, you can obviously see Turini’s particular style in her have purple-clad outfit on Instagram, and this purple collection reflects the initial black Barbie who shined in purple sparkles. “Here she is, on her custom-made throne, surrounded by friends established and styled by me. I hope other young small children, and grownup Barbie fans, are as thrilled to see them selves reflected in these dolls as I am.”

In the “brights” collection, Turini suggests, “While flipping by means of designs a sherbet-eco-friendly coat totally captured my eye. I liked it so considerably, I crafted an whole vignette all over it.”