Spoiler Alert: This contains spoilers from “Barbie” which is now playing in theaters.The yellow dress Margot Robbie’s wears in Barbie’s final scenes was designed to represent change, says the film’s costume designer Jacqueline Durran.By the end of the Greta Gerwig blockbuster, Barbie has been transformed by the Real World.
She’s become flat-footed, broken the patriarchy and all zen has been restored in Barbieland.
Except Barbie, after experiencing the spectrum of human emotion, is feeling unfulfilled.
She wants to be a human in the real world.“The Barbies have gone through all of that stuff and they’re now the most fulfilled versions of themselves,” Durran says.
“And that sets the scene for what’s happening to Margot’s Barbie as she’s becoming human.”Durran says the costumes in Barbieland did not accentuate the softness of a human body.
However, for the yellow dress…
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