‘Barbie’ Designers Created a Dream House That Was an ‘Idealized Version of a Remembered Past’ | How I Did It

There’s an air of timelessness to Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and, according to the film’s production designer, costume designer and set decorator, that’s all intentional. “We weren’t recreating a dream house, we were making our dream house for our movie,” production designer Sarah Greenwood said in the latest episode of TheWrap’s How I Did It, presented by Warner Bros.

As Greenwood said, fans may feel they had a Barbie Dreamhouse exactly like the one Margot Robbie’s Barbie lives in within the movie, but that’s not possible because of how Greenwood and Spencer mixed and matched elements from the Mattel toyline’s past.