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Mattel has launched a Barbie based on Olympic athlete Ibtihaj Muhammad – the brand's aboriginal anytime baby to appear with its own hijab.
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The children's toy is allotment of Sheroes, a accumulating of Barbies advised in anniversary of adorning women from about the world.
California-based Mattel says the band of dolls recognises "female heroes who affect girls by breaking boundaries and accretion possibilities for women everywhere".
Muhammad is an American fencer who won a brownish archetypal in the women's aggregation sabre accident at the 2016 Olympics.
She was the aboriginal Muslim American woman to abrasion the religious headscarf, alleged a hijab, while aggressive for the United States.
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The Barbie adaptation of Muhammad wears an all-white angry outfit, and comes with a analogous sabre-fencing brand and helmet. She has a added muscled and appropriately able-bodied anatomy than acceptable Barbie dolls.
Muhammad formed with designers at Mattel on apish ups of the doll, allowance them with decisions such as administration the beard beneath the bandage and assuming them how to tie the hijab correctly.
The doll's bark is akin to the athlete's bark tone, and alike boasts the aforementioned characteristic eye make-up.
"Barbie is adulatory Ibtihaj, not alone for her accolades as an Olympian, but for all-embracing what makes her angle out," Sejal Shah Miller, carnality admiral of all-around business for Barbie, told Dezeen.
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"Ibtihaj is an afflatus to endless girls who never saw themselves represented, and by honouring her story, we achievement this baby reminds them that they can be and do anything."
The baby was revealed at this year's Glamour Women of the Year Summit 2017, area Muhammad was handed her replica.
Barbie has donned abounding looks back she debuted in 1959 – with highlights including a dress advised by Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons and a conjugal accouterments advised by Carolina Herrera.
But Mattel has continued faced criticism over how its thin-wasted, big-busted changeable dolls afar abounding anatomy types, contest and religions.
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In contempo years, the toy maker has alien several new Barbie lines, in a footfall appear creating a added assorted ambit of dolls. These accommodate the Barbie Fashionista line, appear in aboriginal 2016, which featured curvy, baby and alpine models.
The Ibtihaj Muhammad baby continues this about-face – although it is not the aboriginal baby to be modelled on an Olympic athlete.
Last year, a Barbie was released in accolade to Olympic aerialist Gabby Douglas – the aboriginal African American to become an alone all-around champion, and the aboriginal US aerialist to win both the alone all-around and the aggregation competitions at the aforementioned Olympic games.
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