An illustrative artist has re-imagined Barbie through a feminist lens, as a woman with muscles, tattoos, body piercings, a hijab and a body shape that fluctuates from size 6-24.

Colleen Clark, whose runs the website colleenclarkart.net, undertook the project for Marie Claire South Africa.

They asked her to create a feminist version of the iconic toy which would represent real, contemporary women in all their different facets.

Under the title "We Are All Barbie Girls", Clark came up with four different sketches that bring a thought-provoking spin to conventional Barbie with her trim, tattoo-free body.

Feminist Barbie is a size 16 with tattoos and a hijab