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In honor of the one year anniversary of the decade-defining hit Barbie, we are taking a look at the career of its expert costume designer, Jacqueline Durran. The winner of four BAFTAs, two Costume Designers Guild Awards, and two Academy Awards, it is safe to say that Jacqueline works at a level above. Her commitment to her craft, as well as her choice to design some of the most inspiring feminist blockbusters of the twenty-first century thus far, leave us in awe of Jacqueline.… read more.
It’s the third act of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023), and the Kens are embracing their newfound patriarchy, brainwashing the Barbies into being their maids, interrupting Barbie Land’s perfect pink palette with their horse prints and faux minks. Enter Kate McKinnon’s “Weird Barbie,” her puffy pink paint-splattered dress traded in for cargo pants and a bedazzled bomber jacket, and her choppy locks smoothed into a half-buzzed side-swept hairdo.… read more.

