The Hollywood Reporter

The Power of Pink: How ‘Nimona’ Uses Color to Subvert Stereotypes and Embrace Self-Expression

Members of the film's team, including production designer Aidan Sugano, on the significance of the titular shape-shifter's shade of pink, subverting color stereotypes within the black-white binary, ...
Forbes

Here’s How Pink Became A Girly Color

Margot Robbie poses for a photo during a pink carpet event to promote her new film "Barbie." (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images) Pink is the color of the summer, ...
Time

Is Pink Still a ‘Girl Color’? An Exploration

Dockterman is a correspondent at TIME. She covers culture, society, and gender, including topics from blockbuster movies to the #MeToo movement to how the pandemic pushed moms out of the workplace. I ...
Psychology Today

Beyond Pink and Blue: How Gender Shapes Color Preferences

Walk into any children's clothing store and you'll see it immediately: the great divide. Blues, greens, reds, and blacks flood the boys' section, while pink and purple dominate the girls' area. But is ...
National Geographic news

Barbie’s signature pink may be Earth’s oldest color. Here’s how it took over the world.

Pink—which may go back over a billion years—was once the color of fierce ancient hunters, powerful French women, and yes, boys. Pink has long beguiled humans—used to dye clothing and tint cheeks even ...
The Washington Post

Does Barbie’s pink look fake? It may be Earth’s oldest organic color.

The old-school Barbie world was filled with unrealistic representations: physically impossible body proportions, extremely high heel arches and an amazingly ostentatious house (probably hard to afford ...