It's new Barbie designer (and Hollywood stylist) Phillip Bloch with the "spiritually grown up" Ken (on the left) and his "celebrity spokesperson" Ken. Or, as we like to call it, the homoerotic reason that no matter how hard Barbie tries, she'll never get Ken back.

(We should note, this is the publicity shot Mattel released. As in, the official version of the photograph they'd like to circulate among the press. This man, their marketing department said, will get us coverage. And they were right — for all the wrong reasons.)

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