The "Barbie" movie has reinvigorated the nearly 65-year-old doll brand, but things haven't always been a dream for Mattel's fashion icon. These Barbie variations had critics fuming.

He told a story about visiting his father’s father, a painter, in Brooklyn, when Baumbach was a child. “We would go up to the top floor, which was his studio, and he would show us the new work,” ...