As a child and teenager, Ryan Gosling had a softer, youthful appearance and first became known as a Mouseketeer on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club.
By the time he emerged as a leading man in The Notebook in 2004, he had developed the lean, tousled-haired loverboy image that would define much of his early career. He wore the casual, understated streetwear young Hollywood heartthrobs wore at the time.
His appearance became more rugged as he moved toward darker, more demanding roles.
For Drive, Gosling adopted a more muscular physique, stubble, and the now-iconic bleached-blond hair and satin bomber jacket, creating a minimalist, brooding image that became closely associated with him.
His later work in Only God Forgives and The Gray Man required further physical preparation, including Muay Thai and martial arts training, as he increasingly took on action-oriented characters.
Then came the blockbuster cultural phenomenon that Barbie was, requiring him to embrace an almost exaggerated version of traditional male beauty as Ken.
He trained extensively with Pilates, strength work, and short conditioning circuits alongside the other actors who played Kens—Simu Liu and Kingsley Ben-Adir.
He embraced a more vibrant, expressive wardrobe for the press tour, flaunting pastel suits and Western staples.
“The reason why he's one of the most well-dressed guys in Hollywood is not because of me; it's because of him,” his stylist Mark Avery told journalist Jake Woolf in 2024.
“I've kind of broadened my horizons with color and fabrics and stuff because he's just so capable of that thing I was talking about, where it's the chemistry between the garment and the person. It's not like if anybody throws on a pink suit, they're going to look like Ryan at the Barbie premiere. It’s a combination of the two things.”
By the time he emerged as a leading man in The Notebook in 2004, he had developed the lean, tousled-haired loverboy image that would define much of his early career. He wore the casual, understated streetwear young Hollywood heartthrobs wore at the time.
His appearance became more rugged as he moved toward darker, more demanding roles.
For Drive, Gosling adopted a more muscular physique, stubble, and the now-iconic bleached-blond hair and satin bomber jacket, creating a minimalist, brooding image that became closely associated with him.
His later work in Only God Forgives and The Gray Man required further physical preparation, including Muay Thai and martial arts training, as he increasingly took on action-oriented characters.
Then came the blockbuster cultural phenomenon that Barbie was, requiring him to embrace an almost exaggerated version of traditional male beauty as Ken.
He trained extensively with Pilates, strength work, and short conditioning circuits alongside the other actors who played Kens—Simu Liu and Kingsley Ben-Adir.
He embraced a more vibrant, expressive wardrobe for the press tour, flaunting pastel suits and Western staples.
“The reason why he's one of the most well-dressed guys in Hollywood is not because of me; it's because of him,” his stylist Mark Avery told journalist Jake Woolf in 2024.
“I've kind of broadened my horizons with color and fabrics and stuff because he's just so capable of that thing I was talking about, where it's the chemistry between the garment and the person. It's not like if anybody throws on a pink suit, they're going to look like Ryan at the Barbie premiere. It’s a combination of the two things.”