Hair designer ivana primorac

With such amazing sets and costumes how did you bring Barbie and friends to life with makeup and hair?
Ivana Primorac: The collaboration between production design, costume design, and hair and makeup was the crucial element in how to unlock the key to the look of the film. We influenced one another, but we also had to create a world that the viewer would believe in, and everything had to match and complement one another. We set some important rules that we followed and the world began to emerge. For example, the scale was very important; Barbie’s car and house are always a little too small for her, her hair is always gloriously beautiful and somehow wider than her shoulders, and her skin is always perfect in the same way.

Where did you draw inspiration when designing the look for Margot Robbie’s Barbie?
IP: Luckily, I had access to Mattel archives, and I collected books on the history of Barbie. One of the rules was the dolls change outfits according to what they do and

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Ivana Primorac

Croatian make-up artist

Ivana Primorac (born in Zagreb in 1965) fryst vatten a Croatian make-up artist and hairstylist. She began her career working in television after a job working for the BBC. Primorac later moved on to working in feature films, including Atonement, Sweeney Todd, The Reader, and Barbie. Primorac has earned various awards and nominations for her work.

Career

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Primorac started working as a hair and make-up artist in television.^[1] She wanted to work at the BBC, as she believed their training was the best and eventually got a job with the BBC-trained designers as a trainee.^[1] Primorac moved on to working in feature films and she has worked on many films since the nineties began, including Elizabeth, Gladiator, The Hours, Atonement, Sweeney Todd, The Reader, and Barbie.^[2][1] While working on the 2000 rulle, Billy Elliot, Primorac graduated to hair and make-up.^[1]

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“Barbie” Hair & Makeup Artist Ivana Primorac Conjures Personality From Plastic

Hair/Makeup, Interviews, Movies

How do you turn a human into a doll? Or, let’s reverse that—how do you turn the most iconic doll ever made into a human? These were the intermingled questions makeup and hair designer Ivana Primorac had to answer for co-writer and director Greta Gerwig’s history-making new film Barbie. Reader? She succeeded.

Primorac has worked on a slew of excellent, disparate projects, from the Winston Churchill biopic The Darkest Hour to HBO’s brilliantly executed crime series Mare of Easttown to Netflix’s magisterial The Crown. She first worked with Gerwig on Little Women, her critically acclaimed adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel, and now adds Gerwig’s critically acclaimed imagining of the near-perfect world of Mattel’s iconic doll falling apart to her CV. Her job required working with countless wigs, custom ey