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Wherefore art thou, Barbie?
The past month has seen Barbie’s life-size equivalent, Margot Robbie, doll up in an array of archival designer looks and custom couture creations in a melange of saccharine pink shades for the press tour for the upcoming film.
Like a child opening a chocolate advent calendar each evening in the lead-up to Christmas morning, our days were marked by fervently our Instagram feeds to see what look Robbie and her mastermind stylist, Andrew Mukamal, would deliver for us next.
As she jet-setted around the world, the pair emulated iconic Barbie dolls like the original black-and-white swimsuit Barbie Robbie channelled at the Sydney press conference (a perfectly fitting ensemble for the event’s location at Bondi Beach), or the perfectly replicated Solo In The Spotlight Barbie from 1960, in which Robbie looked every bit of her silicon counterpart in Schiaparelli.
Yet, despite popping up in Seoul, Mexico City and London to briefly paint the town pink, it seems Barbie has retreated to her Malibu dream house, the only sightings on the silver screen at our local movie theatres.
That was until Mukumal took it upon himself to virtually extend the press tour by dropping a series of unseen Robbie looks taken during their travels. If nothing gold can stay, let us be glad that pink is the only hue in Barbie’s wheelhouse.
In the first image, Mukumal has given us a glimpse at an unseen Versace look Robbie would’ve worn during her vintage Versace reign in the Sydney leg of the tour.
Though Robbie eventually went for two archival Claudia Schiffer looks—one being a chunky turtleneck sweater and metallic pleated mini skirt from Fall/Winter 1995 with the other a slinky chainmail minidress from Atelier Versace Fall/Winter 1994—it turns out a strapless chrome dress from Dua Lipa’s ‘La Vacanza’ collaboration with the Italian luxuriate almost made it to the pink carpet. Another look included a magenta twill set accented by silver Medusa head buttons.
With the press tour already injected into the syllabus at fashion schools nationwide, keep scrolling below to see these rare unseen looks to bide us through until the inevitable Barbie sequel press tour.
