Margot Robbie has already channeled trendy Barbie twice, and Clueless character Cher Horowitz on her Barbie press tour. Now, she’s going again in time—sartorially, that’s—to pay tribute to the first-ever Barbie, launched in 1959.
On Australia’s Bondi Seaside at this time, Robbie wearing a black and white striped gown by Hervé Léger and heels by Manolo Blahnik. Her hair was styled in a curly ponytail. She was joined by director Greta Gerwig and her co-stars Issa Rae and America Ferrera.
She switched right into a second retro-inspired search for extra press, carrying a white strawberry print belted Moschino minidress with the identical coiffure and completely different white-rimmed sun shades. Robbie appeared enthusiastic whereas posing:
The throwback vogue seems mark a enjoyable pivot for a press tour that has been stuffed with surprising however inventive homages to date. There’s much more to come back, too: Robbie and Ryan Gosling introduced earlier that the Barbie press tour will occur in eight cities: Sydney (the place Robbie is now), Toronto (the place Gosling is now), Seoul, Mexico Metropolis, Los Angeles (the place they did their preliminary photograph name), London, Berlin, and New York.
Robbie not too long ago spoke to Fandango about how the movie crew managed to get the now-viral trailer shot of her arched Barbie toes.
“It was in all probability about eight takes. Wasn’t that many,” she stated. “I walked up, we had little sticky bits on the ground, double-sided tape for the sneakers, so that they wouldn’t come off, so I may get my toes out of them. And I used to be holding onto a bar. However that’s it. I wasn’t in a harness or something like that. I simply walked up, type of held onto the bar above [the] digicam.” She burdened that utilizing her personal physique for photographs like that’s necessary to her: “I at all times attempt to do my very own inserts.”
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