Hey, Boys Can Play With Barbie Dolls Too! (Especially Moschino Barbie)
The Limited-Edition Toy Gets a Rave From a Boy; Cue the YouTube Outrage
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Hmmm, how would one describe a limited-edition Moschino Barbie doll? Inevitable, perhaps? Over-the-top? Overpriced? (The doll, a collaboration between Moschino and Mattel, retails for $150.)
Oh, wait, how about "So fierce!"? That's what the little boy in this ad has to say about Moschino Barbie, and his playmates, both girls, don't challenge him on that point.
Gay news site Towleroad helped the ad to go viral, noting that it's "sure to fire up conservatives who don't want companies screwing with traditional gender roles." Gawker then upped the ante with a post titled "New Hero Alert: The Boy in This Barbie Commercial."
The ad's YouTube comments -- which we won't link to, because we wouldn't do that to you -- are, predictably, a mixture of hateful and heartening.
Credits
- Date
- Nov 17, 2015
- Brand :
- Moschino
- Client :
- Moschino
- Senior Vice President, and Global GM :
- Evelyn Mazzocco
- Vice President, Barbie Product Marketing :
- Melissa Turetsky
- Design :
- Kimberly Culmone
- Sr Director/Product Design :
- Robert Best
- Vice President, Marketing :
- Kristina Duncan
- Creative Director :
- Erica Green
- Art Director :
- Danielle Viale
- Head of Broadcast Production :
- Lorraine Kraus
- Account Manager :
- Ryan Hoagland
- Creative Director :
- Jeremy Scott
- Production Company :
- Assassins Creative
- Director :
- Tony Petrossian
- Director, Photography/Cameraman :
- Warren Hansen
- Executive Producer :
- Fuliane Petikyan
- Edit/Telecine/Online :
- Brewster/Parsons
- Post Producer :
- Persis Reynolds
- Editor :
- Jason Lewis
- Telecine/Flame Artist :
- Louis Mackall
- Owner/Executive Producer :
- Darcy Parsons
- Executive Producer :
- Jason Cohon
- Mix :
- Margarita Mix
- Original Composition :
- Beta Petrol
- Executive Producer :
- Dayna Turcotte
- Creative Director :
- Bryan Ray Turcotte
- Engineer/Mixer :
- Andy Drohard
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