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The solid of “Barbie” will go down in red-carpet historical past for their dedication to method dressing, as stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling diligently confirmed as much as press occasions, premieres and award exhibits in outfits that would have been borrowed straight from Barbie and Ken’s dollhouse closets.
However on the Academy Awards on Sunday, the place the summer season blockbuster was nominated for 9 awards, together with “Greatest Image,” Robbie appeared to go the pink torch to co-star America Ferrera, carrying a hanging black (however decidedly non-Barbie-like) robe whereas Ferrera arrived in shimmering sizzling pink.
Nonetheless, it appeared as if the actors’ clothes had been related, and linked to that of “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig’s too. Whereas Robbie and Ferrera’s clothes had been polar reverse in coloration and temper, they had been each courtesy of Versace and gave the impression to be product of the identical chainmail materials. (Robbie’s was contemporary off the Fall-Winter 2024 runway, whereas Ferrera’s was custom-made.) Gerwig’s robe, in the meantime, was a glowing Gucci variety of crystal mesh that additionally had an armor-like really feel.
The gathering of female chainmail was a delicate play on energy dressing — applicable for the film’s message of feminine empowerment. However they weren’t the one “Barbie” solid and staff members to glitter. With a contact of Ken’s aptitude for opulence, Gosling wore a {custom} Gucci black tuxedo swimsuit lined with glowing beading, whereas Simu Liu opted for a black jacket cinched with a glittering brooch clasp.
Later, throughout the principle present, Gosling channeled all his Kenergy throughout a pleasant efficiency of the music “I’m Simply Ken” (alongside a crew of Kens together with Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ncuti Gatwa and Scott Evans, and a shock look by guitarist Slash) in a sizzling pink studded swimsuit with matching leather-based gloves — and shades after all.
Although Ferrera didn’t win Greatest Supporting Actress, her outfit embodied the spirit of the four-minute feminist monologue that helped earn her the nomination, wherein her character laments in regards to the methods wherein ladies should climate not possible and contradictory societal requirements.
“Once I first learn it, it simply hit me as the reality,” she advised the Los Angeles Times final July. “There’s no girl in my life who these phrases aren’t true for. Not a single one. So it felt like a present.”