The elderly woman Barbie shares a smile with is not Barbara Handler, but in fact costume designer, Ann Roth.
Ann Roth has had a long career as the costume designer for a wide range of movies, including one of my favorites, Mamma Mia!
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I have been gifted with storyline revelations through the music master himself Jhariah and have gotten to writing into chapter 2 of my fic and have fuzzy ideas about how I’m gonna end it🎉🎉
In the meantime here’s another Red Son outfit! I imagine this one being from later in the story
I also incorporated a bit of MK’s design into it for ~symbolism purposes~
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Let's talk about Gloria's outfit. Can we talk about Gloria's outfit? I'm dying to talk about Gloria's outfit!!!
I have not seen nearly enough discourse on this first outfit we see Gloria in so I am picking up the slack.
Okay, first shot of Gloria. Character intro.
And do you know what my eyes instantly went to:
These. These goddamn, pink sneakers.
I tell you, I smiled like I'd just found an old friend when I spotted those, you know why? Because I GOT IT. In a single shot, I understood this character right to her core.
The rest of her outfit is very professional: jacket, blue shirt, hair painfully straightened to look "good". But these shoes...
That is her personality, right there. She loves pink, she wants to wear as much of it as possible. But all she feels she can get away with in her current job is this little detail.
And I GET IT. I too am a huge nerd. I obsess over weird shit that other people don't GET (see: this entire post about A SINGULAR OUTFIT in the Barbie movie). But, in order to operate in the Real World, I instead cover up most of that and instead wear only the subtlest of symbols so that I can feel true to myself without tipping anyone else off that I'm DIFFERENT.
But I'm not done. Because then we see her in her next scene without the jacket...and what is underneath?
Not a plain blue shirt.
This.
This thing. This weird, wonderful, mystifying shirt. Which, aside from the fact that it kinda looks like an American flag (I see you, costumer), is yet another indication of Gloria hiding her nerdy, obsessive personality.
This thing is deliberately designed so that when she's wearing her work jacket, you can't see the pink, the fun pattern, the oddness of the shirt.
See? Same day, same outfit, no sight of pink. Without the jacket, it becomes whimsical, odd, delightful. Where the hell did she even get this? Did she make it herself?
And then there's a sparkly belt! That was also hidden under the jacket in the earlier scene. LOOK AT THIS DORK!
Now, without the jacket shielding the outfit, her shoes finally match the rest of her.
She is a closeted Barbie fanatic and insecure about expressing it.
And all that is in her outfit.
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some viktors in czech and polish folk costume and a less specific miscellany from the past few months :-) i have to draw very very small with this pen which feels appropriate for him
[id: two pages of digital drawings done with a fine pixel brush. the first image is a series of coloured drawings of viktor standing in a variety of costumes. common articles across the outfits are puffy white shirts, colourful breeches, embroidered waistcoats, and decorative flowers. in each drawing viktor is smiling and leaning on his cane. the second image is a selection of drawings of viktor standing and sitting in various poses, looking generally cheerful. in one he is sitting next to barbie, who is smiling at him. the text beside it reads ‘Barbie (they are friends)’. end id.]
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