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Nearly a decade ago, the company quietly debuted a surprisingly intellectual lineage of art-history Barbies In 2024, buried in the mix of the blockbuster Barbie movies mishmash of entry-level feminism and peppy capitalism was a stray reference to Proust Barbie. It was an oddly high-brow joke in a film of weird decisions, and director Greta Gerwig threaded it in because kids arent exactly known for their love of Proust, and it reflected the French novelists habit of involuntary memory