{"id":452424,"date":"2026-02-06T11:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452424\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:39:10","slug":"margot-robbie-goes-high-fashion-victorian-for-wuthering-heights-press-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452424\/","title":{"rendered":"Margot Robbie goes high-fashion Victorian for \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 press tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n EDITOR\u2019S NOTE:\u00a0 Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, \u2018Look of the Week\u2019<\/a> is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days.\n<\/p>\n

\n Since the first trailer dropped, outrage has surrounded the theatrical costuming of Emerald Fennell\u2019s \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d But for any historical fanatics feeling short-changed, Margot Robbie and her stylist Andrew Mukamal offer a small consolation: by going period on the red carpet. Kind of.\n <\/p>\n

\n It must be understood that historical references to this team are like prompts on an online dating profile \u2014 not under any circumstances to be taken seriously, but a fun jumping off point. We\u2019ve seen bustles (a silhouette that was more popular during Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s lifetime than her fictional character Cathy\u2019s, who lived some 50 years earlier, but who\u2019s counting), corsets, black lace and chokers galore. Take, for example, the Roberto Cavalli<\/a> dress Robbie wore to kick off the film\u2019s promotion last month. The square neckline? Tudor England. The Fausto Puglisi necklace with a ruby pendant? Inspired by 18th century paintings. The mini-skirt hemline? Positively \u201860s.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Anyone looking for accuracy here will probably have more fun revisiting the 2023 \u201cBarbie\u201d press tour, where Robbie and Mukamal painstakingly recreated<\/a> outfits worn by Mattel dolls over the years. But for those interested in fashion history, these red carpet looks are key texts just asking to be pored over. (Both \u201cBarbie\u201d and \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d are distributed by Warner Bros., which is owned by CNN\u2019s parent company Warner Bros. Discovery.)\n <\/p>\n

\n Most notable is the boned corset dress Robbie wore last night at the film\u2019s London premiere, designed by Turkish-British designer Dilara Findikoglu. According to the brand<\/a>, the translucent slip was made with Victorian lace \u2014 but it also harked back to the period in an unexpected way. The dress was accented by braided synthetic hair, hand-dyed to the same dishwater blonde color that belonged to Bront\u00eb sisters Anne and Emily. The inspiration for the rope-like tresses came from a classic piece of Victorian mourning jewelry \u2014 jewellery made of braided hair from the deceased. On Robbie\u2019s left wrist was a replica of a bracelet Charlotte Bront\u00eb had made after Emily and Anne died. It may sound morbid (after all it is Victorian) but this type of sartorial memento mori made the concept of mortality real, and in turn, helped celebrate life.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Earlier this week at a photo call in London, Robbie also dipped her toe into the late 1700s by way of a John Galliano brocade frock coat styled with a black mini skirt, thigh-high scarlet red stockings and satin Manolo Blahnik pumps.\n <\/p>\n

\n The archival fur-trimmed jacket, which Robbie wore in lieu of a top thanks to a ladder of hook-and-eye fastenings, was part of Galliano\u2019s seminal Spring-Summer 1992 collection. While it was made in the \u201890s, the collection (which showed slip dresses<\/a>, shirts with undulating ruffles, and jacquard silk jackets constructed to look permanently burst-open) was inspired by the romance between Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine. The French rulers lived from the late 1760s until the early 1800s \u2014 roughly the same time period in which Bront\u00eb chose to set \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Mukamal has been doing close readings of the Bront\u00eb novel, too. On his Instagram account, the stylist has not only been documenting his work with Robbie, but including quotes from the book to illustrate his thinking. In January, Mukamal also dressed Robbie in two feathered Victoria Beckham looks \u2014 a white mini dress and a black vest. In his Instagram caption<\/a>, he quoted a passage in which Cathy, deranged from an ongoing illness, tears her pillows apart and plays with the down that spills out. When Robbie stepped out in a full red snakeskin corset, jacket and mini skirt from Dilara Findikoglu, Mukamal let an impassioned Heathcliff do the talking \u2014 quoting<\/a> the insult \u201cI\u2019d rather be hugged by a snake,\u201d hurled at Catherine Linton in the novel\u2019s second half.\n <\/p>\n

\n It might not be historically accurate, but it\u2019s certainly fun.\n <\/p>\n