![]() ![]() “That image is in the movie, and it was such a fantastic image of exuberance and fashion of someone like him wearing a huge mink coat in the ’80s that it just had to become part of the Ken look,” says Durran. “But, if you look closely at the inner lining, we did line it with a horse print,” she says nodding to Ken’s fascination for horses after he visits California.ĭurran says when she and Gerwig were figuring out what this not-so-perfect version of Ken would look like, she had seen a photo of Sylvester Stallone modeling a fur coat and that became the main inspiration for the Ken-dom Ken look. The white “fur” coat Gosling wears is in the scene when a glitch in the seemingly perfect world that is Barbieland causes Barbie to have human feelings and existential thoughts, which result in Ken and the army of Kens taking over and turning it into Ken-Dom, where patriarchy reigns. “I bought a vintage jacket, and used the shape of the jacket to be the pink jumpsuits that the Barbies wear later in the film,” Durran explains. “So, we had to make more in London and replicate old styles.”įor the wider Barbieland world, she referenced as far back as 1969 to build the looks. She sourced from America, but there still wasn’t enough to dress the cast that also featured Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa and Kingsley Ben-Adir as Kens. “The Kens were the biggest block of people who wore vintage because all of their sportswear on the beach was sourced,” Durran says. ![]() As for the film itself, Durran does indeed incorporate vintage items into Gosling and Robbie’s wardrobe. ![]()
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