
‘The world ran out of pink,’ is what production designer Sarah Greenwood recently said, after their team hand-painted every physical backdrop for Greta Gerwig’s latest film: Barbie, causing an international shortage.
But while pink may currently be in short supply, Millennial pink continues to saturate our popular consciousness. Flooding the zeitgeist since the 2010s, we’ve seen it with Glossier packaging, Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel, Harry Styles’ bubble pink Fine Line album cover, and the ‘rose gold’ iPhone. Reaching its zenith in 2016, ‘Millennial Pink’ was officially coined by fashion journalist Véronique Hyland in an article for The Cut.