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Article: Pink paradoxes on Nevsky prospect: representing Russia's social divides: Barbie embodies a world many dream of, but few see.
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- Arena Magazine
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- December 1, 2002
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Trudging through snow on St Petersburg's Nevsky Prospect last March, a familiar pink splendour caugh my eye: a `Barbie Shop'. Through its brightly lit and welcoming windows, around 200 different versions of Barbie beckoned. I entered and was confronted by a strong sense of paradox as eerie as the pink plastic surrounding me. Near the doorway stood three-foot tall Barbie, the one that claims to be `your size' and boasts that she can share clothes with children. She was wearing a tinselly tulle outfit that bared her shoulders. It was hard to believe anybody would want to wear such a frock, but this `Your Size' Barbie is a perennial, having sold well for about a decade now ...
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