--- product_id: 646645996 title: "Fashionistas Doll #228, First-Ever Blind Doll Wearing Pink Top and Ruffled Skirt with Cane and Sunglasses in Partnership with the American Foundation for the Blind" brand: "barbie" price: "$56.43" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/646645996-fashionistas-doll-228-first-ever-blind-doll-wearing-pink-top store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # First-ever blind Barbie with stylish pink & ruffles Articulated arms hold white cane for realistic play UV-protective aviator sunglasses, trendy & practical Fashionistas Doll #228, First-Ever Blind Doll Wearing Pink Top and Ruffled Skirt with Cane and Sunglasses in Partnership with the American Foundation for the Blind **Brand:** barbie **Price:** $56.43 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 👠 Step into style and inclusion with Barbie’s groundbreaking blind Fashionista! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Fashionistas Doll #228, First-Ever Blind Doll Wearing Pink Top and Ruffled Skirt with Cane and Sunglasses in Partnership with the American Foundation for the Blind by barbie - **How much does it cost?** $56.43 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/646645996-fashionistas-doll-228-first-ever-blind-doll-wearing-pink-top) ## Best For - barbie enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted barbie brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Inclusive Icon:** Celebrate diversity with Barbie’s first blind doll, designed in partnership with the American Foundation for the Blind. - • **Articulated Play:** Movable arms enable natural cane use, encouraging imaginative, inclusive storytelling. - • **Braille Packaging:** Thoughtful design extends to packaging featuring Barbie in Braille, making this doll a collector’s must-have. - • **Realistic Accessories:** White cane and UV-shielding aviator sunglasses add authenticity and style to every adventure. - • **Fashion Meets Function:** Satin pink blouse and sparkly ruffled skirt with high-contrast closures for easy dressing and tactile fun. ## Overview Barbie Fashionistas Doll #228 is the first-ever blind Barbie, created with the American Foundation for the Blind to authentically represent low vision. Featuring a satin pink top, sparkly ruffled skirt with tactile high-contrast closures, articulated arms for cane use, and UV-protective aviator sunglasses, this doll combines fashion-forward design with meaningful inclusivity. Packaged with Braille branding, it’s a stylish, empowering addition to any collection. ## Description Barbie Fashionista dolls have inspired endless storytelling for 65 stylish years, encouraging kids to have fun with fashion while imagining everything they can become!​ Designed to reflect the world kids see today, each Fashionista doll has a different body type, hair color and style, skin tone, eye color, and outfit that captures their style. ​Barbie Fashionista dolls are all about expressing themselves through their look. Colorful prints and eye-catching accessories make their personalities sparkle!​ ## Features - Designed to reflect the world kids see today, this diverse line of Barbie Fashionistas dolls showcases bright and trendy styles that make for endless storytelling possibilities. - ​Introducing the first ever blind Barbie Fashionistas doll! Barbie partnered with the American Foundation for the Blind to design a doll that accurately portrays someone who is blind or has low vision. - ​She wears a satiny pink blouse and sparkly, ruffled skirt made with a fun-to-touch fabric! Strappy lavender heels add an extra note of style savviness to her sweet look. The brightly colored, high-contrast closures on the back of her top and on her skirt's elastic waistband make it easier to dress Barbie doll!​ ​Her silvery aviator sunglasses are not only super cool -- they're practical too! The "lenses" shield her eyes from UV rays when it's sunny. - Barbie uses her white cane as she explores the city. It's an important complement to her day-to-night outfit, which is perfect for a fun-filled weekend with friends! - From articulated arms that make using the cane a breeze, to packaging that features the word "Barbie" in Braille, this Blind Fashionistas doll is lovingly designed in every way. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Age Range Description | Kid | | Animal Theme | doll | | Are Batteries Required | No | | Asin | B0CMGM6HR4 | | Best Sellers Rank | #4,911 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games) #33 in Dolls (Toys & Games) | | Brand | Barbie | | Character | Barbie | | Collection Name | Barbie Fashionistas | | Colour | Multicolor | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (12,359) 4.6 out of 5 stars | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00194735176816 | | Importer Contact Information | Mattel Toys (I) Pvt. Ltd., Office No. 03A108/109, WeWork Enam Sambhav, C-20, G-Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East , Mumbai - 400051 | | Included Components | Includes Barbie fashion doll and accessories | | Is Assembly Required | No | | Is Autographed | No | | Item Dimensions | 34 x 73 x 298 Millimeters | | Item Dimensions L X W X H | 7.3L x 29.8W x 29.8H Centimeters | | Item Type Name | Doll | | Item Weight | 174 g | | Manufacturer | M/s. PT Mattel Indonesia (East), JL. Industri Utama Blok SS 1-3, Kawasan Industri Jababeka, Desa, Mekarmukti, Kecamatan Cikarang, Kabupaten Bekasi, Indonesia, PT Mattel Indonesia (EAST) | | Manufacturer Contact Information | M/s. PT Mattel Indonesia (East), JL. Industri Utama Blok SS 1-3, Kawasan Industri Jababeka, Desa, Mekarmukti, Kecamatan Cikarang, Kabupaten Bekasi, Indonesia | | Manufacturer Part Number | HRH17 | | Manufacturer Recommended Age | 36 months - 6 years | | Material | Plastic | | Model Name | Fashionistas | | Model Number | HRH17 | | Number Of Pieces | 1 | | Operation Mode | manual | | Outer Material Type | Plastic | | Packer Contact Information | M/s. PT Mattel Indonesia (East), JL. Industri Utama Blok SS 1-3, Kawasan Industri Jababeka, Desa, Mekarmukti, Kecamatan Cikarang, Kabupaten Bekasi, Indonesia | | Play Activity Location | Tabletop | | Size | Small | | Style Name | Wearing Pink Top and Ruffled Skirt | | Theme | Fantasy | | Toy Figure Type | Doll | | Unit Count | 1 Count | | Upc | 194735176816 | ## Images ![Fashionistas Doll #228, First-Ever Blind Doll Wearing Pink Top and Ruffled Skirt with Cane and Sunglasses in Partnership with the American Foundation for the Blind - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61dhpb4bRlL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Style** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful and cute barbie *by on Reviewed in India 22 August 2026* This Barbie is so beautiful,it met my expectations, it's really cute and beautiful, material is also good, clothes are beautiful,tall barbie, value for money, it's a must buy ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful and value for money *by on Reviewed in India 24 May 2026* Beautiful. My wife loved it. Packing was damaged but product was ok. It’s value for money. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mattel is taking an initiative in diversifying their dolls . . . *by on Reviewed in India 24 January 2025* Doll No 229:I am truly loving the fact that Mattel is taking an initiative in diversifying their dolls in a way to educate kids and to also promote self confidence in adults by making them feel inclusive through theirs range of extending products. I feel very motivated to support their cause. Prior to this one, last year I had purchased another ndss doll that was Caucasian, but this year with the release of the Coloured one, the doll instantly went into my wishlist untill I found a great discount on it. Another feature which acts as a bonus to this particular one, is the rare braided hair which I always wanted to add in my collection and it makes this petite doll more unique than ever! To add to this, the doll possesses a very happy bliss-bestowing-smile. So, thankyou Amazon and a heartfelt thanks as well to the seller; I'll be certainly returning back to explore for more offers from you.Doll No 218:This doll simply stole my heart at the first glance of its exuberance that it emits so casually in representing the Rainbow Community without even mentioning it. And to add, when received, I remained completely mesmerised by its split shaded honey/sky blue eyes. That two toned white and blue hair also compliments its eager looking face sculpt and in an effort to diversify it more, Mattel has incorporated the curvy body with a lovely beach tan. The doll wears a hefty set of intricately detailed bright-pink sturdy shoes, and the only accessory it comes with is that long golden chain to hang below-chest a seemingly heavy circular gold-pendant.This beautiful Feminine figure, in fact looks like a mermaid, as if come out of water, full in prep to explore hers terrestrial longings on feet!Moreover, on the cover by inside, I saw a small picture down, of the original 1984 sports Barbie which this one has taken its inspiration from. And the inscription under it, mentions this make to be of the Barbie's 65 years of a 'future shaping' celebration range. This particular one's reboot seems to have gone really well, as the outfit also is truly wonderful, making the whole getup absolutely inviting to the eyes, because of which the doll stands out to me personally as a Collector one; that too at such an affordable half price, the seller had offered during the time of my purchase. This Barbie model has "inspiringly" got me awestruck.Doll No 228:Mattel has impressively raised its bar quite high recently with the launch of this one. I went through a couple of YouTube videos in which reviewers with varying levels of vision loss, seemed in awe absolutely admiring the brand's effort of representing them. By becoming this intensively inclusive towards expressing acceptance of diversity in their professional ethics of doll making, they have begun to win many hearts of disabled individuals. This forward change in theirs new customer reaching phase will certainly be a self confidence building step for the kids dealing with such life challenges of the new generation.Reviewing from my personal side, when I received the doll, I just fell in love with this doll's lucious deep golden-brown hair. The multiracial face sculpt is a beautified success and the subtle gender-blending pink and blue all-decades identifying dress is refreshingly Feminine! With the least amount of simplistic makeup, the figure possesses a neutral skin tone that anyone could relate with, without falling into any mental debate on likely type-baised discrimination. This AFB doll comes across very organic; in simple terms an all rounder for all to befriend her.And what struck me the most was the lovingly crafted display box. For an ease of opening for the visually impaired customers, they have provided the lower back of the cover with a neatly carved-in cavity for the fingers to slide in efficiently. And there's a write-up in Braille on the lower front below the heading "Expanding possibilities for people with vision loss". I found these two features just heartwarming and genuinely caring. These are all the wonderful traits of empathy. And an hassle-free Mattel has once again, done it.Doll No 215:This doll was on my wishlist for a year but I was waiting for its price to drop down for its overall simplicity. Although, after a wonderful discount a year later when I finally received this gorgeous and bold looking latina, I felt a great sense of relief as I realised how much I was longing for it! Besides, that starry pink top, the color-stained skirt, those shiny white stiletto-heeled boots and this thick lavender cuff-bracelet on one hand is top class; the attire taking its inspiration from the original 1986 'trendy' release, as the inner side of the display box visually mentions on it. The doll's hair is also supersoft. But the display box of this figure was opened up from above which I easily refixed with a little piece of tape. ## Frequently Bought Together - Barbie Fashionistas Doll #228, Blind Doll Wearing Pink Top and Ruffled Skirt with Cane and Sunglasses in Partnership with The American Foundation for The Blind - Barbie Fashionistas Doll #208 with Down Syndrome Wearing Floral Dress, Created in Partnership with The National Down Syndrome Society - Barbie Careers Fashion Doll & Accessory, Soccer Player with Brunette Ponytail, #16 Uniform, Tall Socks, Cleats & Ball --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.us/products/646645996-fashionistas-doll-228-first-ever-blind-doll-wearing-pink-top](https://www.desertcart.us/products/646645996-fashionistas-doll-228-first-ever-blind-doll-wearing-pink-top) --- *Product available on Desertcart United States of America* *Store origin: US* *Last updated: 2026-09-15*