Between bites of avocado toast, grilled Halloumi cheese, and Australian-​​style bacon—“Crisp it up,” she tells the waiter—Robbie delivers the Barbie backstory with Glengarry Glen Ross–esque speed.

Even travel days were chic: Robbie arrived in Sydney wearing an archival Chanel blazer originally seen in 1995 on Claudia Schiffer.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. The Orient Express was on her bucket list for a long time, and she and Ackerley finally ticked that box last year. The progression—poodle skirt, disco look—amounts to a survey of Barbie fashion over time, says Jacqueline Durran, the film’s costume designer. 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.

Margot Robbie also donned a businesswoman look when she dressed in a Saint Laurent outfit featuring a top, skirt, belt, jacket, tights, and shoes in a gray-scale hue. 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.

Like “Black Magic” Barbie, the actor and producer accessorised with peep-toe pumps – though we doubt the doll’s were Manolo Blahnik – black leather gloves, and a metallic gold baguette bag. Barbie star Margot Robbie takes the cover story of American Vogue Magazine‘s Summer 2023 edition lensed by fashion photographer Ethan James Green. In her audition for The Wolf of Wall Street, she went off script and slapped Leonardo DiCaprio across the face. The look echoed the LA-inspired collection that Virginie Viard debuted at the “one night only” event, which saw models take to the catwalk in bodysuits, leg-warmers and wedges. For the film’s London premiere, she transformed into the 1960 “Enchanted Evening” Barbie in Vivienne Westwood couture; for the Seoul premiere, she did double duty as “Day to Night” Barbie, changing from a spectacularly ‘80s power suit into a full-skirted Versace.