“Lisa Vossler Smith holds up a Barbie that’s straight out of Mad Men. A lithe blonde sporting a limoncello-colored hostess suit and a bouffant, the doll looks like the desert’s quintessential midcentury entertainer.
“She was one of the first vintage dolls that I started photographing,” says Smith, better known about town as the CEO of Modernism Week. “She’s from 1969 or 1970. She is a Walk Lively Barbie, and she’s in great condition. I bought her on eBay, but she’s one of my faves.”
This Barbie features heavily in Tiny Palm Springs, Smith’s Instagram account that documents the fictionalized lives of Barbies living, loving, and socializing in Greater Palm Springs. Her collection of dolls numbers 200 and counting…”
