Greta Gerwig

Barbie fans need to stop complaining

Despite it receiving eight nominations, people are complaining that the film has been snubbed due to sexism. Maybe it just wasn’t that good?

Film & TV

Jan 24, 2024

James Greig

Fashion

Golden Globes 2024: the best looks from award season’s starting pistol

While the modus operandi of the Globes is to play safe, Hunter Schafer in Prada, Greta Lee in Loewe, Billie Eilish in Willy Chavarria and Rosamund Pike in Dior all offered a twist on tradition

Fashion

Jan 08, 2024

Elliot Hoste

Life & Culture

2023: The year of the girl

From Barbie to the Eras Tour to girl dinner, girliness and girly aesthetics have dominated pop culture this year – but why?

Life & Culture

Dec 12, 2023

Jess Bacon

Music

Watch the new video for Charli XCX’s Barbie banger, ‘Speed Drive’

Charli and Devon Lee Carlson race a pink Corvette in the official Barbie the Album visuals, with a surprise cameo from Sam Smith

Music

Aug 16, 2023

Thom Waite

Film & TV

The Barbie movie is too gay for Algeria, sadly

The North African country’s Ministry of Culture has demanded cinemas remove the film ‘immediately’, following in the footsteps of Kuwait and Lebanon’s Barbie ban

Film & TV

Aug 16, 2023

Elliot Hoste

Film & TV

Barbie is a Bollywood film

With its big musical numbers and whimsical settings, Barbie is pretty similar to a lot of Indian cinema, argues Shivani Dubey

Film & TV

Aug 04, 2023

Shivani Dubey

Music

New Music Friday: 5 albums to stream this week

From an alt-rap record by Paris Texas, to the pure pop stylings of Barbie The Album, here’s five albums you don’t want to miss this week

Music

Jul 21, 2023

Elliot Hoste

Life & Culture

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What Barbie’s high-pink, utopian aesthetic can teach us about ourselves

As Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is released, Liara Roux speaks to writer Whitney Mallett about the doll’s bubblegum-pop Dreamhouses, and what they can teach us about girlhood, desire and contemporary society

Life & Culture

Jul 21, 2023

Liara Roux

Art & Photography

An artist has created the world’s ‘Barbiest pink’ to protest Mattel

Buyers have to pinkie promise that Stuart Semple’s paint won’t fall into the Barbie manufacturer’s hands

Art & Photography

Jul 20, 2023

Thom Waite

Fashion

Hari Nef’s latest Barbie look offered salvation in silver cutlery

The actor turned up to the London premiere of the movie in a Joan of Arc-esque look by Dilara Findikoglu

Fashion

Jul 13, 2023

Emma Elizabeth Davidson

Film & TV

Daniel Kaluuya’s Barney film will be a ‘surreal, A24-type’ work of art

It is one of 45 films Mattel has lined up after Barbie, because we’re all children and original ideas are dead

Film & TV

Jul 04, 2023

Thom Waite

Film & TV

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie drained the global supply of pink paint

‘The world [ran] out of pink,’ said the film’s production designer

Film & TV

Jun 05, 2023

Elliot Hoste

Film & TV

Birkenstocks and Indigo Girls? Barbie is a lesbian

As Barbie chooses Birkenstocks and belts out ‘Closer to Fine’ in her car, we unpack the secret meaning behind the trailer – and whether the film could end up being the lesbian Matrix

Film & TV

May 26, 2023

Alex Peters

Music

Dua Lipa: from pop princess to Versace collaborator

She’s touched on pop perfection with ‘hard, plastic’ songs tooled with laser precision. Now, Dua Lipa is teaming with Versace on a new fashion line, bonding with fans over books – and making a splash on screen in Barbie

Music

May 24, 2023

Owen Myers

Film & TV