Barbie: 40 Margot Robbie Outfits! A titanic work on the appearance of the phenomenon film

After months of waiting and intense promotion, Barbie is finally in theaters. While Margot Robbie’s brilliant portrayal of the heroine in Greta Gerwig’s film wears no less than 40 different costumes: from many iconic Mattel doll outfits to film-specific creations, the actress also wore dresses inspired by the looks of the dolls created by Ruth Handler in 1959.

Long-term work led by the film’s costume designer, Jacqueline Durand, Oscar winner for Best Costume Design for Anna Karenina in 2013 and Les Filles du Docteur March by Greta Gerwig in 2020. Therefore, Barbie is the second collaboration between the director and costume designer and Beau1, who worked on the director and Beau1. Asst.

The costume designer explains to the magazine Fashion :”Barbie is truly inseparable from fashion, because playing with her is essentially dressing her up. Her clothes are a way to express herself.He adds:We don’t treat Barbie like an ordinary person. The way he dresses does not belong to him, it is completely determined by the environment.“

Indeed, each Barbie wears an outfit associated with her name: Barbie’s gymnast wears leotards, Barbie’s doctor wears a white coat or her time. Therefore each face is studied and emblematic of the doll that wears it.

But in addition to repeating, life-size, all of the famous doll’s iconic outfits (like the black-and-white swimsuit in the opening scene, which is the first doll outfit or Barbie and Kenny’s neon outfit in the roller-skating scene), Jacqueline Duran The outfits were also inspired by the looks of the 50s and 60s.

Inspired by the 60s

Thus he declares magazine to be inspired “The idea of ​​a beach on the Côte d’Azur in the early 1960s“. Like Greta Gerwig, who had a palette of different pinks allowed to appear in Barbie Land, the costume designer gave her team a precise range of pastel color combinations. They scoured vintage stores for costumes and inspiration.

Because it’s not just character Margot Robbie That should have been dressed up, but all the Barbies and all the Kens that are in the movie. From Barbie’s master, to Barbie’s president, to Barbie’s astrophysicist, to Barbie’s journalist.

Jacqueline Duran adds:Greta writes at a fast pace, often with four scenes per script page…there were a lot of costume changes.”

As for Ken, the costume designer and his team painted the 80s.We thoroughly researched the field of retro sportswear for Ken, bought a lot. He is an athlete. This is its main focus. We have buyers in the US who are constantly going to find new parts for us and send them to us because we need them in such large quantities..”

Thus, the team had 11 weeks to prepare many costumes for the film.

Margot Robbie, Real World Barbie

Promoting Barbie hasn’t been easy for Margot Robbie either, as the actress wears the doll’s iconic outfits on various red carpets. Note that they were created by major fashion houses, not by a film crew.

Thus, each of the actor’s looks during the promotion of the film, which ended on July 13 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, is related to Barbie’s outfit: from the black and white premiere, to the pink dress with white polka dots of the 2015 doll, “Pink and Fabulous”, which passes next to the hippie dress, under Barbie’s black polish. Light” 1985 Doll’s Evening Gown, Barbie’s Collector’s Look ‘Enchanted Evening 1960’ or the 1985 Barbie’s Fuchsia Pencil Skirt.

Barbie is currently in theaters.