Barbie Fashion Designer is a dress-up computer game developed by Digital Domain and published by Mattel Media for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS in 1996.
[2] Barbie Fashion Designer was the first commercially successful video game made for girls.
[2] The game complemented the way young girls already liked to play with their Barbie dolls and this has been said to have led to its success.
[7] Commenting on its performance that year, a writer for Next Generation wrote that "Barbie Fashion Designer has done an excellent job at expanding the market and scored well with the female population.
Purple Moon founder Brenda Laurel has said the game “…perpetuated a version of femininity that was fundamentally lame”.