Madonna & Barbie - Material girls at 50

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Jul 29

Madonna & Barbie - Material girls at 50

BBC Radio 3

As barbie and Madonna both turn 50, Emily Maitlis compares the two Material Girls. She looks at the parallel development of two of the best-known brands of the last half-century.

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Daily Mail has a new article with the similar topic

One's small, tacky and comes in lots of different outfits - the other's Barbie. As Madonna and the world's favourite doll both hit their half century, we reveal the weird similarities between two hard-nosed material girls. more

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1 Comments

By vaggelis on July 29, 2008 8:26 PM

They have many similarities.
That's an interesting point!!
:)

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