On responsibility, she loves Magda Butrym, Dilara Findikoglu, Alaïa and, after all, Chanel, given her seven years as an envoy. Simply two days after seeing Matthieu Blazy’s debut assortment in Paris, she was on the Vogue shoot, swaddled in his fresh-off-the-catwalk feathers. The French home additionally lent dazzling, maximalist classic jewelry to the Wuthering Heights manufacturing, objects that have been then sewn into Robbie’s hair and ballgowns.
On display screen, Durran guarantees a head-spinning trend fantasia. Cathy alone wears about 50 seems to be and the costumer’s moodboards featured every part from Gone with the Wind’s Scarlett O’Hara and Romy Schneider in Sissi to Lina Lamont’s Marie Antoinette get-up from Singin’ within the Rain, seductive Nineteen Nineties Thierry Mugler, camp Fifties calendar women, Elizabethan portraiture, Dolce & Gabbana’s gilded ornamentation and White Christmas’s Vera-Ellen shimmying to “Mandy”. On the Vogue set, Robbie gravitated to items – puff-sleeved Vaquera, sculptural Margiela, ruffled Schiaparelli, big Givenchy earrings – which have the identical extravagant, renegade spirit.
Naturally, as with Barbie, there’s a lot red-carpet technique dressing to return, courtesy of Robbie’s stylist Andrew Mukamal, who visited the Wuthering Heights set, absorbed Durran and Fennell’s numerous references and picked up classic copies of Wuthering Heights from eBay for inspiration. Count on customized designer items alongside showstoppers pulled from the runway. “It’s good timing too,” says Robbie, flashing me a cheeky smile. “The couture exhibits are in January. So we will see what comes out of that.”
Mukamal additionally wants to seek out her an outfit for an additional big day. Robbie’s mates, she tells me, are throwing her a Cathy-themed “bachelorette” social gathering to mark the movie’s launch. We’re again at lunch and Robbie is wanting barely apprehensive. “I don’t know what we’re going to do. I’m usually the planner in our group, however they’re like, ‘We’ve received this.’ I mentioned, ‘Simply inform me the place to be and what to put on.’”
As she packs up her leftovers and slides on her rectangular Ray-Bans, able to return to the studio, I image all the probabilities: a hairy-chested stripper dressed as Heathcliff, a steamy bread-making class, fishy canapés, and matching corsets and hoop skirts. Godspeed.
Cowl look: embroidered satin corset gown, Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood. Hair: Bryce Scarlett. Make-up: Pati Dubroff. Nails: Ama Quashie. Tailor: Della George. Set design: Max Bellhouse. Manufacturing: Holmes Manufacturing. Digital paintings: Magnus Bergqvist. With due to Firle Place, East Sussex.
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