For Barbie’s bed room, the workforce paired a clamshell headboard upholstered in velvet with a sequined bedspread. Her closet, in the meantime, reveals coordinated outfits in toy field show instances. “It is positively a house for a single girl,” says Greenwood, noting that when the primary Dreamhouse (a cardboard foldout) was offered in 1962, it was uncommon for a lady to personal her own residence. Spencer provides, “She’s the last word feminist icon.”
In Barbie, as in earlier movies reminiscent of Little Girls and Woman Fowl, Gerwig wished to understand a complete world. “We actually created the alternate universe of Barbie Land,” says the director, who strived for “genuine artificiality” at each alternative. For example, she cites utilizing a hand-painted backdrop as a substitute of CGI to seize the sky and the San Jacinto Mountains. “Every little thing needed to be tangible, as a result of toys are above all stuff you contact.”
Every little thing needed to be pink too. “Preserving the ‘kid-ness’ was paramount,” says Gerwig. “I wished the pink tones to be actually brilliant and every thing to be nearly an excessive amount of.” In different phrases, she continues, she did not wish to “overlook why I beloved Barbie after I was a little bit woman.” Building, notes Greenwood, sparked a global run on the fluorescent tint of Rosco paint. “The world,” she laughs, “has no extra pink.”