I watched the Barbie movie, and found myself so inspired. Everything from the set, the theme, the storyline fed directly into my project theme. The Barbie movie used so much pink paint that it caused a worldwide shortage! The set design is based around Barbie's inception and rise to popularity, in the 50's and 60's, so it has a lot of mid-century modern influences in the costuming and set design.
This sign can be seen when Barbie and Ken travel to the 'Real World'. It is very much made in the modernist style with the bright colours, bold shapes and the large hollywood bulbs around the edge.
When Barbie is driving away form Barbieland you can see the place name written in the clouds, this goes back to my original idea of Rock Bottom & Cloud Nine.
Theme - Barbie's world is perfect until one day she wakes up and things start going wrong. There is a pivotal scene where she is doing a highly choreographed dance routine, and all the other Barbies are talking about how perfect the day is, and every day is and will always be. Out of the blue Barbie says 'Do you guys ever think about dying?' - This shocks everyone and the music stops. She then laughs it off and carries on dancing. I really related to this on a personal level, as sometimes I have found myself among friends saying something openly which shocks and metaphorically stops the music, and found myself laughing it off and going back to laughing and joking like nothing happened.
This is the part in the film where you feel Barbie is REAL and has feelings, emotions and even cellulite. Of course this film barely touches the surface as far as Barbie's mental health but it does have an undertone of battles with depression/anxiety.
The Barbie set contained a lot of hand-made elements. The colour palette is made up of delicious candy pinks, blues and greens. Barbieland itself is in the middle of a vast desert, as is Las Vegas and that aesthetic of signage that I have been researching. I would love to use these colours in my piece.
The shape, colours, composition and style of this sign used in the Barbie promotional tour was a huge inspiration to me. I also love the glossy style which makes it look almost plastic, like a Barbie doll.
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