Margot Robbie’s name has been on everyone’s lips this Hollywood awards season. But what inspired her most recent evolution beyond Barbie?
From the black metallic column gown she walked the Oscars red carpet in, to the burnt orange feather boa she wore to Chanel’s pre-Academy Awards dinner in Los Angeles, there has been one consistent theme – and this time, it’s not Barbiecore.
There was a time last year when everything the Australian star wore was somehow tied to the Mattel doll she famously played on the big screen in Barbie, a movie which made $US1.446 billion worldwide.
Of course, the genius press tour for the Oscar-nominated Greta Gerwig-directed film had Robbie in Barbie-esque outfits by Chanel (that Claudia Schiffer-inspired pink two-piece mini and tweed set), to Vivienne Westwood and Schiaparelli, taking Barbie from a plastic doll to real life fashion muse (much like the movie itself).
A Chanel ambassador, Robbie and her long-time collaborator, makeup artist Pati Dubroff, showed off an understated beauty aesthetic that marked a shift from Robbie’s doll-inspired era into a post Barbie world and perhaps, back to her true self.
Lip service! Margot Robbie for Chanel.
Also without limits? Robbie and her stylist Andrew Mukamal – who oversaw her looks for the Barbie press tour – speaking to Vogue about their coffee-table book titled Barbie: The World Tour, which documents Robbie’s style as she promoted the film.
“I had the idea when I was in one of the [tour] fittings with Margot,” Mukamal told Vogue.
