Barbie costume director Jacqueline Durran says Ken's ankle-length fur coat was a “leap of faith,” but thankfully, Ryan Gosling “was totally up” for all of Ken's zanier costume choices.
. In other words, they were building the Barbie car as they were driving it. Durran would match the pink of Barbie’s clothes to the exact shade of pink used on the set. And when she and her hand-dyer weren’t matching fabric to sets, Durran was attempting to impose some order to that wealth of options. For those crowded beach scenes, for example, Durran “made a board of maybe 15 or 20 three-color combinations, so that every costume that was on the beach had to be one of those color combinations.
The breakneck pace lent itself to some zanier ideas. One of Durran’s earliest costume choices was to putin the ’70s. Photos of men in fur came up as references in the prep period as the visuals of masculinity that Gosling’s character discovers after he leaves Barbie Land for the real world. Not only was he wearing a mink while otherwise shirtless, but because of the character’s obsession with horses, Durran’s team hand-lined the coat in a horse-pattern fabric.
“It was sort of a leap of faith, but we were working so fast that we almost didn’t have time to think of it,” Durran says. “And at that point, I hadn’t met Ryan and I didn’t really know how far he was going to go with Ken. It was quite a jump to be Ken. I didn’t know whether he would like the fur coat or not, but he was totally up for all of the costume choices, as you can tell.”
There is one small Easter egg, or if not quite an Easter egg, a possible future grail item on eBay: scarves that the Barbies wear to pull their hair back in the third act. “You can barely see this in the film, but we made a headscarf of Barbie Land for the Barbies to wear, and that was just a really beautiful thing,” Durran said. “All of the Barbies had one.”
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