Vogue Magazine Summer 2023 Margot Robbie

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Whether she’s writing a movie review or interviewing the stars of the latest hit show, Chloe loves exploring why stories inspire us. Well, I also remember loving you (Greta Gerwig) from afar and then meeting you and being absolutely besotted with you because you instantly reminded me of so many of my friends.

Robbie also explains that everything about the film was very tangible and very fake — that way, it would feel like we were really watching a bunch of Barbie dolls. The 32-year-old actress and founder of production company LuckyChap Entertainment was photographed by Ethan James Green for the Gabriella Karefa-Johnson-styled shoot, for which she slips into pink Versace dresses with floral appliqués and one trendy cone-bra corset; event-ready numbers from the likes of Carolina Herrera, Marc Jacobs, Christopher John Rogers, and Valentino; and hot pants from Norma Kamali and Miu Miu finished with Rollerblades — a nod to her character's costumes in the film that will be released on 21 July.Greta Gerwig's Barbie has been one of the most anticipated drops of 2023, and many fans have already indulged in the Barbie Core era alongside the fashion labels. As Ana Cruz Kayne explains, it’s about finding one’s space within the group: “Like the youngest child asks at Passover, What makes this night different than other nights? During the casting process, Gerwig and Robbie looked for “Barbie energy,” a certain ineffable combination of beauty and exuberance they concluded is embodied in Gal Gadot. In the accompanying feature, Robbie opens up about the difficulties she experienced getting the project off the ground, her friendship with costar Ryan Gosling, as well as transitioning into her new role once the movie details were locked in. If the dress feels slightly familiar, that’s because it’s inspired by a look featured in Chanel’s autumn 2022 haute couture collection, designed by creative director Virginie Viard.

For the film’s Seoul premiere, she wore a look inspired by the 1985 “Day to Night” Barbie, an outfit change with a pink skirt suit (complete with a bejewelled brick of a cell phone), and a sparkly bustier with a voluminous, hot-pink skirt from Versace. On Gerwig’s advice to Robbie to find her inner Barbie– listening to an episode of This American Life: “I was like, Greta, I need to go on this whole character journey.

Gerwig had a sense that Barbie was being guided by old soundstage Technicolor musicals, so they watched a bunch of those, most helpfully The Red Shoes and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. For added Coachella effect, the actor wore her signature beachy blonde waves in a ’70s-inspired tousled style.