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See Margot Robbie’s Chanel High Jewelry Earrings and Necklace in ‘Babylon’

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Thoughts of Outdated Hollywood may well conjure visions of bombshell glamour, decadence (if not comprehensive-on debauchery), glittering diamonds…and Chanel. The French manner home has a very long background with Tinseltown, courting back again to the 1930s, when United Artists mogul Sam Goldwyn invited Mademoiselle Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel from Paris to layout gowns for his Los Angeles starlets, on and off-the-display screen. In Babylon, Damien Chazelle’s bombastic (not-so-)Golden Age of Hollywood epic, the collaboration carries on.

Early in the film, fearless ingénue Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie) assuredly marches up to the box workplace for the premiere of her 1926 silent film debut. The staffer refuses to let the however-unfamiliar talent in, but the resourceful Jersey lady bribes her way into the theater no matter. The digital camera closes in on Nellie’s apprehensive-turned-elated expressions as she awaits the audience’s reaction to her efficiency. Her face and extended, undone curls—an surprising design and style for the 10 years, but based mostly on genuine-existence Hungarian starlet Lya De Putti—are framed by a pair of excellent deco-model earrings, appropriately christened “Muse,” from the Chanel Superior Jewelry selection.

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As a result of a partnership with the luxurious home, costume designer Mary Zophres very carefully picked the white gold earrings—radiant with 26 carats of sapphires and 5 carats of diamonds—to flawlessly accent Nellie’s glowing milestone party ensemble: a blue hand-beaded halter top and faucet trousers established.

 

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“Now she has some funds and she’s gonna shell out a minimal bit much more,” suggests Zophres, who obtained a single of her a few Oscar nominations for Chazelle’s 2017 strike La La Land. “She wants one thing that’s glittery simply because she’s even now Nellie.”

The actress’s premiere earrings, with triangular diamonds and sapphires arranged into star styles, feels felicitous, and even literal, for her ascendance. They also provide as a cautionary tale for neophyte talent thrust into the highlight with unparalleled paychecks. “I believe she blows her full wad on a pair of diamonds simply because she has not experienced dollars her entire daily life. She might not have expended it properly, but she required anything for herself,” suggests Zophres, emphasizing the storytelling driving Nellie’s splurge.

The glittering seem is a reference to, but also a departure from, the scarlet red and pores and skin-baring outfit Nellie wore when she was plucked out of a bacchanalian dance get together for her massive break. Impressed by a ’20s impression of Asian American actress Anna May possibly Wong, Zophres imagined Nellie was previously a dancer in New York City and configured a pink silk scarf with a pair of shade-coordinated faucet trousers that she perhaps pilfered from a studio again in the working day. She’s occur a extensive way since then.

At the top of her silent movie stardom, Nellie is mobbed by lovers and paparazzi in wet New York Metropolis. Coincidentally, kindred spirit Manny (Diego Calva), previous producer’s underling-turned-studio exec, spots Nellie and shields her from the scrum into her chauffeured vehicle.

He’s in the city to witness the community reaction to Al Jolson’s match-altering sound musical, The Jazz Singer—a harbinger of the stop of silent films. An unusually understated Nellie is there to pay a visit to her mom, a longtime client in a psychological institution. In a pristine vintage celadon eco-friendly cloche hat and matching scarf lapel wrap coat, Nellie is virtually dressed for the severe East Coast climate—and the emotionally extreme conference. “That costume was basically a cocoon for her,” claims Zophres. “It’s the only time she wears a hat, and she never definitely takes that coat off. It is her way to hug herself.”

The costume designer also spotted an prospect to incorporate an 18K white gold Chanel tasseled lariat, glimmering with 17 carats of paved stones and near-set diamonds. “She could not aid herself,” claims Zophres, imagining Nellie’s way of thinking in adorning herself with the tasteful, nonetheless opulent accessory. “‘I don’t truly want to gown in a [flashy Hollywood] way, but I’m gonna dress in my diamonds.’”

margot robbie plays nellie laroy in babylon from paramount pictures

Scott Garfield for Paramount Shots

Fittingly, the necklace, stunning with intricate lacework that culminates in a camelia burst, is named for actress Lucienne Roger, who starred in the 1910 Belgian satirical comedy participate in, Le Mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans (The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans). “It was a wonderful piece that felt 1920s to me,” claims Zophres.

The normally brash Nellie maintains sartorial decorum and sensitivity, however. Right before she enters the clinic, she quietly eliminates and relinquishes the necklace to her driver to keep. After viewing her mother, Nellie remains stripped of the jewels, as she and Manny reveal their very own, prolonged-buried household traumas to each other. She then redons the lavish ornament—and her star persona—as she promptly bids Manny adieu with a broad grin and operates off into the night. “It was one of those issues that is thoroughly put for pretty distinct explanations that have to do with character improvement,” claims Zophres.

The costume designer also refers to Nellie’s refined, still dramaticand diamond-accessorized—ensemble as one of her “Gloria Swanson moments,” which also feels like a reality-meets-fiction crossover. All through her time at United Artists, Mademoiselle Chanel did, in simple fact, layout gowns for Swanson, notably to perform an opera diva in 1931’s Tonight or Under no circumstances. The actual-existence display icon was generating her transition from silent to audio films, just like Nellie’s impending path in Babylon.

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Fawnia Soo Hoo is a freelance vogue, magnificence and enjoyment writer. Adhere to her on Twitter and Instagram.