Look of the Week: ‘Barbie’ stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling hit the street in bubblegum pink

April 6, 2023

Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN

That includes the nice, the dangerous and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a daily collection devoted to unpacking probably the most talked about outfit of the final seven days.

The “Barbie” film will debut this summer season, and a brand new trailer for the Greta Gerwig-directed movie has revealed additional glimpses into the fantastically plastic Barbie Land.

This contains extra matchy-matchy bubblegum pink outfits worn by Margot Robbie, within the title function, and Ryan Gosling’s Ken as they sit in a convertible on their strategy to the actual world. Robbie dons her chicest trip look (her beret, tailor-made gown and aspect braid are “Emily in Paris” meets Barbiecore) whereas Gosling goes full wife-guy in a “B” brand jacket.

“Did you deliver your rollerblades?” Barbie asks.

“I actually go nowhere with out them,” Ken replies, holding up a pair of highlighter-yellow skates seen in leaked photographs final 12 months.

The film (distributed by Warner Bros. Photos, which is owned by CNN’s father or mother firm) hits theaters in July, and the brand new trailer hints at Gerwig’s dedication to Barbie world-building and magnificence — proper from the opening shot of Barbie’s ft slipping out of her footwear however retaining their signature excessive arch.

Barbie is about to tackle the structural limitations of her world — and her plastic physique. Credit score: From Warner Bros. Photos

“Her taking her foot out of the heel just for it to nonetheless be within the Barbie foot form… THAT IS CINEMA,” tweeted Luxx Noir London, a former “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestant.

Barbie Land lore

This week’s trailer was accompanied by a collection of a posters that despatched viewers trying to find clues about which dolls might be delivered to life. The franchise’s most devoted followers might acknowledge newly unveiled characters, together with Allan (Michael Cera), who seems to be Ken’s discontinued “buddy” from the Sixties, and Midge (Emerald Fennell), who’s seemingly modeled on a pregnant doll of the identical title that was pulled off Wal-Mart’s cabinets in 2002 on account of buyer complaints.

Final summer season, on-set photographs of Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling rollerblading in Venice, Los Angeles, went viral. Credit score: MEGA/GC Photos/GC Photos/Getty Photos

Becoming a member of them is Issa Rae as a presidential Barbie, Dua Lipa as a mermaid Barbie and Kate McKinnon, who has the chopped hair, scrawled-on make-up and intense eyes of a doll who’s seen one too many issues.

The film’s costumes have in the meantime sparked pleasure since final June, when on-set photographs of Robbie and Gosling — who had been noticed sporting cowgirl and cowboy outfits and neon rollerblading ensembles, full with knee pads and visors — set the web alight.

Watch the brand new ‘Barbie’ film trailer

“We appear to be we’re laughing and having enjoyable, however we’re dying on the within — dying,” Robbie informed Jimmy Fallon after the photographs went viral. “I used to be like, ‘That is probably the most humiliating second of my life.'”

Plot particulars stay tightly below wraps, however Robbie has mentioned that “Barbie” will not be something like what viewers anticipate.

“We just like the issues that really feel somewhat left of heart,” she informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2020. “One thing like Barbie the place the IP, the title itself, folks instantly have an concept of, ‘Oh, Margot is enjoying Barbie, I do know what that’s,’ however our purpose is to be like, ‘No matter you are pondering, we’ll offer you one thing completely totally different — the factor you did not know you wished.'”