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 ...
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 ...
Hyperallergic

A Brief History of the Color Pink in Fashion, from the 1700s to Today

Installation view of Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color at the Museum at FIT. Objects lent by Raina Bajpai, Jessica Barber and Jennifer Morgan, Grazia d’Annunzio, The Fashion Class, ...
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, ...
CNN

Refined, rebellious and not just for girls: A cultural history of pink

Elvis Presley’s iconic 1955 Cadillac, Marilyn Monroe in a figure-hugging dress in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and the sea of “pussyhats” that swarmed the Women’s March in Washington DC earlier this ...