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18.12.2023 - 02:27 / variety.com
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor When Greta Gerwig worked with costume designer Jacqueline Durran on “Little Women,” the pair went on a trip to a building in London’s Docklands to draw inspiration for the adaptation. “There were old file cabinets labeled ‘British Gardens 1830-1835′ and things you couldn’t find anywhere,” Gerwig recalls. “There were out-of-print books and original frames for making corsets and hoop skirts.” A few years later, the director would turn to Durran to help bring the aesthetic of “Barbie” to life.
She didn’t think Durran would want to collaborate again. “I almost killed her on that,” Gerwig jokes about the 200-plus costume changes that took place in that film. But Durran, who hadn’t had the chance to work on many projects in America, said yes.
And it became their biggest collaboration to date. “Barbie is all about the clothes, and it was daunting,” says Gerwig. Here they discuss that collaborative process, how Barbie’s looks evolved and reveal how they found the perfect Birkenstock sandal for Margot Robbie‘s Barbie.
How did the costume process evolve? DURRAN: When we started, we didn’t have rules for the world yet. Even the idea that we’d be grounded in the history of Mattel, rather than just fashion, was not something that was a given. That evolved because Greta had written the starting point of 1959, so it became an idea that that’s what we could do costume-wise.
There were so many things to work out. There was a world where the clothes could have been ugly like big velcro stick-on clothes. So, it took a lot of conversation.
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