Barbie Fashion Fever: Hilary Duff

In the fall of 2006, two global fashionistas, Hilary Duff and Barbie® doll, came together under a "design concept" to create Barbie® Fashions, designed by Hilary Duff, dolls and fashions. Adding a fresh new style to the popular Fashion Fever™ line of Barbie® brand doll clothes and accessories, the Barbie® Fashions Designed by Hilary Duff collection fused classic style with street fashion and showcased many of Barbie's must-have looks that season. Teen idol Hilary Duff was the US spokesperson (She was replaced by Carly Simpson and McFly in the UK)

Joining the excitement of Los Angeles Fashion Week, Barbie® and tween fashion brand designer Hilary Duff hosted an all-girls fashion show at Smashbox Studios in Los Angeles, where girls saw the line Barbie® Fashions Designed by Hilary Duff. On the runway and, with the help of Hilary, they styled Fashion Fever™ to find their own Barbie® dolls.

Hilary designed 11 different complete outfits under the Barbie® Fashions Designed by Hilary Duff label. The collection includes clothing and accessories that reflect Hilary's personal style and her favorite fall fashion picks, including stripes, denim and faux fur with accessories in always-on-trend black. With both "sweet" and "rock" styles, the fall collection offers styles that girls of all ages will love.

Hilary said: "It was really great to work with the designers at Mattel and my own team, using styles and themes inspired by my own things by the Hilary Duff 'tween fashion brand to create a fashion collection for Barbie®. I've always been a big fan of Barbie® - she is the most fashionable doll in the world, and many of the best fashion designers have designed for her. I am delighted to have the opportunity to offer my own ideas and design inspirations for the Barbie® doll's look, and I know the girls will love that!"

Barbie Marketing Vice President, Mattel Brands, Jamie Wood, said: "Barbie® and Hilary are the perfect design duo," "Barbie® and Hilary are not only two of the most stylish artists, actresses and fashion designers, but that also show girls that there are no limits to what they can do.

Like Barbie®, Hilary was a fashion and design phenomenon, demonstrating brand success with her teen fashion brand of affordable Hilary Duff couture items (launched in fall 2005), and later in Walmart, Kohl's, Claire's, Kmart, JC Penney and a dozen other retailers. Hilary's extensive travels around the world, keen eye for street fashion influences along with regular attendance at shows, and presenting her own things by the Hilary Duff fashion show, has evolved her sense of personal style and taste, helping her create cutting-edge lines for mass and mid-level retailers, specialty stores and many overseas markets.

The Barbie® doll, who continues to reign as the number one fashion-themed doll in the US, has also been in the fashion spotlight for decades, harnessing an unparalleled sense of style to associate herself with the crème de la crème from fashion designers, such as Christian Dior, Versace, Giorgio Armani and Bagdley Mischka. Barbie® later connected with design superstars such as Anna Sui, Judith Leiber, Paper Denim & Cloth and Tarina Tarantino in 2005 to launch Barbie™ Luxe, an adult collection of clothing and accessories widely admired by celebrities and fashion customers. fashion.

Barbie Fashion® designed by Hilary Duff

From the hottest styles in skirts and shirts to the most modern patterns and designs, the Barbie® Fashions Designed by Hilary Duff includes:

• Barbie® Fashions Designed by Hilary Duff Fashion Fever ™ Dolls - Dolls are offered in a variety of styles, for a suggested retail price of $9.99 each.
• Barbie® Fashions Designed by Hilary Duff Fashion Fever Wardrobes: These fashion wardrobes come in two styles, Rocker and Sweet, each featuring three different mix-and-match outfits from head to toe. The cabinets sell for $9.99 each.
• Barbie® Fashions Designed by Hilary Duff Fashion Fever ™ Mannequins - Head-to-toe looks for Barbie® doll displayed on a mannequin body They are offered in three different styles. The mannequins sell for $4.99 each.

Prices are indicative, those recommended by Mattel.

The association between Hilary Duff and Barbie® began It started in 2004 and has evolved since Hilary starred in Fashion Fever TV commercials ™ and it appeared on Barbie.com, ranked among the top 5 entertainment websites for boys and girls ages 2 to 112. In 2007 there were important changes in the collaboration. Currently, the Barbie.com page no longer exists.

About Hilary Duff

Hilary Erhard Duff (Houston, September 28, 1987), known artistically as Hilary Duff, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman and author. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Duff began her career from an early age, participating in local theater productions and television commercials. In 1997, she received Her first film role, where she played the main role in the film Casper and the Magical Wendy. Also appeared in the film True Women (1997) before finding fame in the title role of the Disney Channel teen comedy Lizzie McGuire.1 Established as a teen idol, Duff returned to Hollywood. She went on to play that role in The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) and ventured into it in the cinema with his first films Agent Cody Banks (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), A Cinderella Story (2004) and Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (2005), being one of the biggest commercial successes of her career. In addition to film, she has starred in television films: Cadet Kelly (2002).

After signing with Hollywood Records, Duff expanded her career. Her repertoire includes pop music and she has released several albums. In 2003, the studio album Metamorphosis (2003) was certified triple platinum by the RIAA, ranking at number eight of the best-selling albums of 2003 in the United States, while the following album Hilary Duff's studio album (2004) and the compilation album Most Wanted (2005) went platinum. He exhibited a more adult image with the release of Dignity (2007), which shows a shift to a more dance-oriented sound. Certified gold, the single «With Love» It was her highest-charting single to date, reaching number 1 on US Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs, becoming the first of her three consecutive number one hits on that list. 

In 2004, in an agreement with Mattel, she launched her first Barbie doll, inspired by her. She has six Barbie dolls of hers, among which is Cinderella, who has accessories and even her own mobile phone. In 2006, Hilary designed clothes for Barbie for the first time, for which she, along with her sister Haylie, managed to design 11 tiny cotton garments.

In 2006, she debuted along with her chihuahua Lola in the second edition of the classic video game The Sims, called The Sims 2: Pets.

In 2004 she launched the clothing line called Stuff By Duff on the American market, which sells youth women's clothing, ranging from accessories and cosmetics to women's clothing, bags and bed covers. The clothing line was very successful, selling more than 300,000 pieces in the United States and Europe and making profits from its first collection of more than $6 million. In 2006 Hilary launched Stuff's second collection, this time of "party clothes and accessories", which she hopes to once again become a success in the United States and Europe.

In 2004 Hilary launched in the United States. Her line of dog accessories called Little Dog Duff. She got the idea of creating this line of clothing for dogs after one of her dogs called Little Dog died, so Hilary wanted to pay tribute to her dog by naming the line after her. puppies of her.