Before there was Carrie Bradshaw and Sex and the City, there was Barbie Millicent Roberts. But we all know her better as Barbie, the doll.

With more than 50 years of fashion under her belt, two major fashion shows held as tribute in her honour during New York and London Fashion Weeks in 2009, and a veritable line-up of fashion's most influential designers who have designed for her, the doll is unarguably a fashion icon in her own right.

And women and girls around the world still can't get enough of her, with exhibitions and shows still held for them to ogle at the doll with the sharpest fashion sense.

Just how has a 50-year-old doll held generations of females enthralled?

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