Margot Robbie took a moment to pay tribute to model Claudia Schiffer by wearing vintage Chanel during Thursday’s AFI Awards at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles in Beverly Hills.
The Barbie The actor wore a coral and black crop top and a black Chanel skirt that Schiffer originally wore during Chanel’s spring 1995 ready-to-wear show. The collared top featured a blue, red and coral floral piece of jewelry on the chest, while the skirt featured a gold chain with Chanel’s iconic logo.
Robbie, 33, attended the luncheon with the film’s co-writer and director Greta Gerwig (who wore a black and white checked jacket and tie with trousers) and his co-star America Ferrera, who wore a black leather dress to the event.
Margot Robbie’s suit at the AFI Awards luncheon was once worn by Claudia Schiffer.
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During it Barbie press run, Robbie drew much of her outfit inspiration from the vintage clothing worn by the Mattel doll. But the title mannequin Robbie, who he played in the 2023 hit, also wears plenty of vintage Chanel clothing in the film, some of which were originally modeled by Schiffer at the same spring 1995 show.
The pink Chanel suit that Barbie wears in the film, as well as her lavender tweed suit, were also worn by Schiffer at the same show in 1995. Barbie he also borrowed a diamond and gemstone necklace with pearl drops and interlocking Cs.
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Margot Robbie wears the outfit originally hinted at by Schiffer at Chanel’s spring 1995 show in “Barbie.”
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Chanel also made a hot pink version of the same heart-shaped bag shown at the spring 1995 show for Robbie as Barbie.
“One of the archive suits I was wearing had a little tag that said ‘Claudia’ and I was like, ‘Wow!’ ” a beaming Robbie told Chanel in a promotional video for the 2023 film.
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Robbie wears head-to-toe Chanel in “Barbie.”
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“When I went to Paris and went to the Chanel archives, I also discovered that Karl Lagerfeld designed a Barbie collection in the ’90s with Claudia Schiffer and all the supermodels who modeled Barbie. It became the perfect Easter egg to put one of Karl’s costumes in film, which we did,” Barbie costume designer Jacqueline Durran previously told PEOPLE. She also confirmed that Robbie and Schiffer wore the same suit in the film.
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