Frida Kahlo's Estate Did Not Approve The Frida Barbie

March 8th, 2018, 08:48 am

Frida Kahlo's Estate Did Not Approve The Frida Barbie

Comunicado oficial de la Familia Kahlo referente al lanzamiento de la @barbie en honor a #FridaKahlo de @Mattel / Official statement from the Kahlo Family regarding the launch of Mattel's Frida Kahlo "Sheroe" Barbie: pic.twitter.com/7ProPd7c30
— Frida Kahlo (@FridaKahlo) March 8, 2018

Frida Kahlo's estate has released a statement saying the Mattel Frida doll was not approved by Mara Romeo, Frida's great-niece and sole owner of the estate's rights. The estate also did not approve for Frida's image to be used by Mattel. They are trusting this is simply a mistake by the toy company and they will fix the problem ASAP.

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I will sue their ass tbh.

post about it when you do tbh

The audacity of using her image and not even asking to the state , but of course gringos would , sue them!!

It really kind of rubs me the wrong way if this is the only doll they decided to just bypass the estate with, tbh

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yea frida was problematic. a lot of the aesthetic she adopted was from the indigenous domestic workers in her home. here's a good review:

http://kalamu.com/neogriot/2015/05/23/history-three-deep-cultural-appropriation-and-frida-khalo/

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I'm absolutely flummoxed @the audacity tbh, and it's not like she's some random civilian, she's an icon with so many depictions of her over the past few decades (apart from her own art).

I wonder if the doll even kept Frida's monobrow/upper lip hair or they removed that too?

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mte I hope they get a shit ton of money

That's a pretty serious fuck up

your icon <3 the writing failed irene so hard, but lara is so magnificent in the role ugh.

Oof she really was. And her styling was A++, I loved those Victorian-looking updos and her dresses/negligee. And that red lipstick!

That's a pretty big mistake. It's not like Mattel wouldn't have a gaggle of lawyers at their disposal to look into these things first. Licensing and authorizations are pretty standard things. At the same time, why would they risk it if they did know? Getting called out like this looks really bad for them.

Very strange.

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How do ppl come to these decisions, like Kendrick Lamars team using that female artist's work after she denied them twice. All in the name of "empowerment" for both cases too lol

Beyoncé has stolen literal songs (“if I were a boy”) from the original artists and released them

I love that part of the agreement was that if she kept the song, she would do a song with BC Jean on her album and of course..BC Jean didn't get that collab lol

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wow, what

They're being too nice. Mattel would sue the shit out of anyone who did this to them.

ikr they tried to sue aqua over barbie girl

Tbh

ikr? idk which of their lawyers/licence managers fucked up this badly, this is no "mistake".

mte

this

For real.

Yupp

Mte

Seriously forever bitter about Aqua >:(

Shame. That was one of the only good ones in the lineup. I didn't know who half of the women represented were even though they were supposed to be legendary.

They're legendary if you're into their field.

They did this before with the Rock n Roll Barbies. They got permission/rights from Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, Cyndi Lauper, etc... but their Rockabilly barbie that looked EXACTLY like the singer/bass player of the Horrorpops was never asked/acknowledged. Mattel used the defense that it was a "generic" rockabilly barbie, but even the tattoos matched Patricia Day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HorrorPops
http://assets.rebelcircus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/psychobilly-look-patricia-day.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b8/d3/32/b8d33203cf5c24dfaa51df11003372f7.jpg

I mean.....It also looks like Amy Winehouse

Yeah, there are lots of arguments to make... Like all rockabilly women look like Bettie Page anyways. And black hair, bangs, and tattoos ARE the generic rockabilly look. I've even rocked it. lol...

Amy W didn't have a bass like that, Patricia Day did.