Two weeks before Bryant quit Mattel, he sold his idea to a Mattel competitor, MGA Entertainment, which brought out four Bratz girls in 2001-Jade, Cloe, Yasmin, and Sasha-the first dolls to successfully rival Barbie since she made her début, in 1959, in a zebra-striped swimsuit and stilettos, eyebrows arched, waist pinched.
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He meant for his Bratz to come in pick-your-own skin colors and to have monetizably vague ethnic names. He drew some sketches of clothes-obsessed, bratty-looking teen-agers-“The Girls with a Passion for Fashion!” he called them-and made a prototype by piecing together bits and bobs that he found in a trash bin at work and in his own collection at home: a doll head, a plastic body, and Ken boots. Carter Bryant was thirty-one and working at Mattel in August of 2000, designing clothes for Barbie, when he created Bratz, though he later said-and his legal defense turned on this claim-that he’d got the idea for the dolls while on a seven-month break from Mattel, two years earlier. Their eyes and heads are so big and their noses so small that if it weren’t for their Penthouse makeup (icy eyeshadow, cat-eye liner, glistening lip gloss, and eyelashes as long as their fingers) and their come-hither clothes (crop tops, hot pants, microminis, and kinky boots), they’d look like emaciated babies, Kewpie dolls in a time of famine. Their waists are barely wider than their necks.
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