



Production designer Sarah Greenwood, set decorator Katie Spencer, costume designer Jacqueline Durran, and hair and makeup stylist Ivana Primorac are the four women responsible for imagining Barbie’s universe. The cotton-candy walls, the pristine archival costuming, and the flawless glam (intricately coiffed hair! perfectly pink pouts!) all work together to make moviegoers believe in the world of Barbie. And at its center is a full-fledged aesthetic universe populated by Barbies and Kens.īarbie Land on the big screen is irresistibly nostalgic, with the fictional dreamscape serving as a picture-perfect fantasy-or a Pepto Bismol hallucination trip, depending on your perspective. The new film inspired by the famous doll, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie, is a two-hour fever dream-funny, sometimes sad, occasionally existential.
