Vogue Magazine Summer 2023 Margot Robbie

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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. To me, directing is a privilege and not a right and when I hear people just flippantly be like, ‘Yeah, sure I’m going to direct something,’ I’m kinda like, that’s a pretty sacred position and I hope you’ve earned the right to do that. Guitar Player visits Nerdville to learn about Joe Bonamassa’s ‘Blues Deluxe, Vol 2,’ an album made in the same spirit as the 2003 breakthrough that made him the blues’ reigning.

She says the knockout dress has been a months-in-the-making process, with discussions about the ensemble starting last autumn. She took it up after she did a bunch of the ice-skating in I, Tonya, LuckyChap’s biopic about Tonya Harding, and that’s why she doesn’t like brakes.

In charge of styling was Christine Centenera, with set design from Philipp Haemmerle, and production by Hest Inc. Despite playing the famous doll in the movie, which hits theaters July 21, Robbie actually admitted to Vogue that she doesn’t know if she even owned a Barbie growing up. 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? Mattel didn’t introduce a Black Barbie until 1980, and a forthcoming documentary, Black Barbie, explores this legacy.

Robbie’s custom Prada look featured a black strapless satin dress that fell below the knee, paired with a sheer black cape with black ribbon detailing, knotted at the nape of her neck in a large bow.They started in London on the British Pullman—Wes Anderson decorated one of the carriages and Robbie wanted to ride in it—and then took the Orient Express overnight from Paris to Venice. Comic book films, there’s definitely hype… But there’s something about Barbie that is a version of hype that I have not experienced before.