Margot Robbie virtually invented methodology dressing, and now she’s perfecting it.
The actress really dedicated to dressing like a doll throughout her 2024 “Barbie” press tour, and now she and stylist Andrew Mukamal have teamed up for one more spectacular run to promote “Wuthering Heights.”
This time, not solely are the style pulls inspiring, however the jewellery can be downright dazzling — and never simply by way of carat rely or sheer quantity. Drawing inspiration from Emily Brönte’s 1847 novel, Mukamal and Robbie dipped deep into the archives, and got here out with true items of historical past.
Under, we take a better take a look at (and discuss to the makers of) the unimaginable equipment she’s worn.
Locks of affection
On the London premiere, Robbie went for the last word interval piece: a duplicate of the bracelet Charlotte Brontë commissioned after the deaths of her sisters that includes their locks.
The Brontë Parsonage Museum labored with the British grasp goldsmiths at McCarty London and the workforce at Wyedean Weaving — an organization primarily based in Haworth, the place the Brontës lived and wrote their well-known novels — to painstakingly craft the proper look-alike.
“The bracelet’s braid shouldn’t be conventionally woven, however makes use of a uncommon diagonal plaiting development. Though Wyedean adopted a mechanized course of utilizing its 100-year-old flat braiding machine, the outcome was a precise duplicate of the hand-plaited approach used roughly 175 years in the past,” Brontë Parsonage Museum curator Murray Tremellen tells Web page Six Type solely.
In Victorian England, mourning jewellery was typically made utilizing family members’ precise locks.
“Hair is likely one of the most sturdy components of the human physique; resulting from its excessive keratin content material, it might survive for millennia if saved in dry circumstances,” Tremellen says. “As such, it has lengthy been invested with symbolic significance; snippets of hair had been exchanged as tokens of affection between associates or lovers for hundreds of years earlier than the Victorians.”
Matching the unique bracelet’s colour and texture was “an actual problem,” in response to Wyedean Weaving Managing Director Robin Wright.
“Utilizing human hair was dominated out and time constraints prevented bespoke dye improvement. As a substitute, we carried out in depth trials utilizing off-the-shelf yarns together with silk, wool, cotton and artificial fibers. A polyester-cotton mix offered the closest texture to human hair,” Wright tells us.
Getting the braid colour and texture excellent took probably the most time, he provides.
“It was notably complicated as a result of the unique hair bracelet has metameric properties, that means the shade seems totally different in altering mild. We ran 12 colour trials utilizing 5 totally different yarn shades, with each taken again to the Parsonage for comparability with the unique.”
It took 40 hours of manufacturing, 12 trials, six visits, three totally different shades of artificial hair and 250,000 meters of thread to finish the copy.
As for the that means behind these double garnets on the clasp?
“There was a posh language of symbolism relating to valuable and semi-precious stones within the Nineteenth century,” Tremellen says.
“Garnets have been believed to represent devotion, and this can be partly why they have been chosen for this bracelet. Garnets are additionally the birthstone for the month of January; Anne Brontë had a January birthday.”
Robbie’s {custom} Dilara Findikoglu costume was lined in dyed hair as nicely, and meant to imitate the bracelet. “Because the hair jewellery holds reminiscence and eternity, the costume is a logo of the immortal story of Emily Brontë,” the designer shared in a press launch.
Champagne style
The Metropolis of Mild deserves critical bling, and Robbie introduced it by means of champagne diamonds — greater than 100 carats’ price, to be exact.
Lorraine Schwartz, who is thought for her assortment of “nude” diamonds, created a pink velvet choker to match Robbie’s Chanel ballgown. It’s set with an enormous outdated mine minimize stone surrounded by a halo of smaller diamonds, with a pear-shaped pendant suspended beneath.
Robbie’s matching ring alone totaled 15 carats.
“Schwartz designs for A-list celebrities reminiscent of Elizabeth Taylor, Beyonce and Kim Kardashian. Lately, champagne diamonds have grow to be more and more extra wanted, prized for his or her individuality and heat, nuanced tones — no two stones are ever the identical,” Dawsons Auctioneers Managing Director Jonathan Pratt tells us.
The skilled says a necklace “of this caliber, combining exceptional-colored diamonds with designer provenance and world media publicity, may moderately be valued at $2.7 million to $4.1 million.”
Provides Pratt, “These are items that sit comfortably alongside museum-grade jewels and personal collections.”
Wild hearts
On the Los Angeles premiere of “Wuthering Heights,” Robbie paired a hanging Schiaparelli robe with a tribute to like tales of the previous: the Taj Mahal Diamond.
Mounted on a Cartier necklace, the heart-shaped pendant in inscribed with “Love is Eternal” in Parsee — in addition to the identify Nur Jahan, the primary girl to obtain the jewel as a present from her husband, Mughal Emperor Shah Jahangir.
The diamond was then handed right down to their son, Shah Jahan, who gifted it to his spouse, Mumtaz Mahal; when she died, he commissioned the Taj Mahal mausoleum, and so the diamond received its identify.
Richard Burton acquired the piece and gifted it to Elizabeth Taylor on her fortieth birthday in 1972, including to the legacy of affection tales. (On the pink carpet in LA, Robbie additionally wore Taylor’s cape from 1962’s “Taming of the Shrew,” which co-starred Burton.)
“What makes Margot Robbie carrying Elizabeth Taylor’s Taj Mahal necklace and pink cape so particular for this event isn’t just the aura of Previous Hollywood romance, however the love tales embedded within the gadgets themselves,” Taylor’s property wrote.
“Each the necklace and the cape are a part of the story of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, a relationship outlined by obsession, rupture, reunion, and feelings that refused to adapt. In that method, it echoes Heathcliff and Catherine nearly beat for beat. In addition they function symbols of Elizabeth’s passionate, free spirit. For a glance that celebrates a narrative of affection that lasts past lifetimes, the adornments are pure perfection.”
To finish the look, Lorraine Schwartz — who was an excellent buddy of Taylor’s — created {custom} drop earrings that includes 38 carats of old-cut diamonds set in blackened bronzed gold.
Margot rounded out the look with a Nineteenth-century ruby-and-diamond ring from Fred Leighton, and even her manicure by Chanel nail artist Betina Goldstein integrated actual gems.
“The necklace has marquise diamonds and spherical rubies all through, and this set was made to really feel as if these jewels had fallen from the necklace and scattered delicately throughout her nails,” Goldstein advised Vogue.
Matching rings
Even earlier than the “Wuthering Heights” press tour kicked off, Robbie and co-star Jacob Elordi have been speaking their connection through jewellery.
The pair debuted matching gold rings on Instagram, designed by Cece Fein-Hughes of Cece Jewelry and gifted from Robbie to her Australian co-star. The sentimental baubles have been custom-made with a skeleton couple surrounded by roses and thorns, together with a well-known line from Brönte’s novel.
“The rings symbolize Heathcliff and Catherine, and a love that transcends time. The skeletons are positioned precisely as they seem on the long-lasting movie poster, entwined with roses and thorns, representing ardour, magnificence and heartbreak,” the jeweler advised Web page Six Type solely.
“Engraved inside is Emily Brontë’s timeless quote, ‘No matter our souls are manufactured from, his and mine are the identical,’ alongside C&H on both facet, a quiet tribute to 2 characters, and two souls, certain collectively ceaselessly.’”
