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Buenos Aires Barbie store

Violeta, 6, and Clara, 3, are ready to channel their inner Barbies at the temple to the iconic doll in Buenos Aires, for now the only store of its kind. With them are mom Carolina Espinoza, grandmother Maria Aurora Lapuyade and little brother thinking about trucks.

Violeta, 6, and Clara, 3, are ready to channel their inner Barbies at the temple to the iconic doll in Buenos Aires, for now the only store of its kind. With them are mom Carolina Espinoza, grandmother Maria Aurora Lapuyade and little brother thinking about trucks.  (Liliana Nieto del Rio / For The Times)

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Violeta D’Onofrio, 6, examines a handbag at the Buenos Aires Barbie store.  (Liliana Nieto del Rio / For The Times)

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Violeta, freshly coiffed in a “Princess” hairdo by the store’s beauty salon, moves on to clothes.  (Liliana Nieto del Rio / For The Times)

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Nicole, 8, attending a birthday party at the Store, combs the hair of a Barbie mannequin head.  (Liliana Nieto del Rio / For The Times)

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Stylist Cynthia Aguirre sprays the hair of Lucero Gonzalez.  (Liliana Nieto del Rio / For the Times)

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Costumes help when a girl is trying the Barbie persona on for size.  (Liliana Nieto del Rio / For The Times)

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A girl can dream, can’t she? Lucero Gonzalez, 6, reclines below a display of Barbie collector dolls.  (Liliana Nieto del Rio / For The Times)

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