See Margot Robbie’s Chanel Large Jewellery Earrings and Necklace in ‘Babylon’

Thoughts of Previous Hollywood may conjure visions of bombshell glamour, decadence (if not comprehensive-on debauchery), glittering diamonds…and Chanel. The French vogue house has a extensive history with Tinseltown, courting back again to the 1930s, when United Artists mogul Sam Goldwyn invited Mademoiselle Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel from Paris to style robes for his Los Angeles starlets, on and off-the-screen. In Babylon, Damien Chazelle’s bombastic (not-so-)Golden Age of Hollywood epic, the collaboration continues.

Early in the film, fearless ingénue Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie) assuredly marches up to the box business for the premiere of her 1926 silent movie debut. The staffer refuses to enable the nevertheless-mysterious talent in, but the resourceful Jersey woman bribes her way into the theater irrespective. The camera closes in on Nellie’s apprehensive-turned-elated expressions as she awaits the audience’s reaction to her effectiveness. Her encounter and long, undone curls—an unexpected type for the decade, but dependent on real-existence Hungarian starlet Lya De Putti—are framed by a pair of brilliant deco-design earrings, properly christened “Muse,” from the Chanel Higher Jewelry selection.

Via a partnership with the luxury house, costume designer Mary Zophres diligently chosen the white gold earrings—radiant with 26 carats of sapphires and 5 carats of diamonds—to properly accent Nellie’s glowing milestone event ensemble: a blue hand-beaded halter major and faucet trousers established.

“Now she has some income and she’s gonna shell out a tiny little bit additional,” states Zophres, who been given one particular of her three Oscar nominations for Chazelle’s 2017 strike La La Land. “She wishes a little something that is glittery mainly because she’s even now Nellie.”

The actress’s premiere earrings, with triangular diamonds and sapphires organized into star shapes, feels felicitous, and even literal, for her ascendance. They also serve as a cautionary tale for neophyte talent thrust into the highlight with unprecedented paychecks. “I imagine she blows her full wad on a pair of diamonds because she hasn’t had revenue her complete lifestyle. She may well not have used it properly, but she preferred anything for herself,” suggests Zophres, emphasizing the storytelling driving Nellie’s splurge.

The glittering appear is a reference to, but also a departure from, the scarlet red and skin-baring outfit Nellie wore when she was plucked out of a bacchanalian dance party for her massive break. Motivated by a ’20s impression of Asian American actress Anna May Wong, Zophres imagined Nellie was previously a dancer in New York Town and configured a crimson silk scarf with a pair of coloration-coordinated faucet pants that she potentially pilfered from a studio back again in the day. She’s occur a very long way since then.

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

He’s in the town to witness the community response to Al Jolson’s sport-changing sound musical, The Jazz Singer—a harbinger of the finish of silent movies. An unusually understated Nellie is there to check out her mom, a longtime affected person in a mental institution. In a pristine vintage celadon inexperienced cloche hat and matching shawl lapel wrap coat, Nellie is basically dressed for the severe East Coast climate—and the emotionally rigorous meeting. “That costume was basically a cocoon for her,” suggests Zophres. “It’s the only time she wears a hat, and she never ever actually can take that coat off. It’s her way to hug herself.”

The costume designer also spotted an option to integrate an 18K white gold Chanel tasseled lariat, glimmering with 17 carats of paved stones and near-established diamonds. “She could not assistance herself,” suggests Zophres, imagining Nellie’s state of mind in adorning herself with the classy, however opulent accessory. “‘I never definitely want to costume in a [flashy Hollywood] way, but I’m gonna put on my diamonds.’”

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

The generally brash Nellie maintains sartorial decorum and sensitivity, nevertheless. Prior to she enters the healthcare facility, she quietly removes and relinquishes the necklace to her driver to hold. After viewing her mom, Nellie stays stripped of the jewels, as she and Manny reveal their have, extended-buried family members traumas to each individual other. She then redons the lavish ornament—and her star persona—as she rapidly bids Manny adieu with a wide grin and operates off into the evening. “It was one of these matters that is meticulously put for very specific motives that have to do with character advancement,” states Zophres.

The costume designer also refers to Nellie’s refined, however dramatic—and diamond-accessorized—ensemble as one particular of her “Gloria Swanson moments,” which also feels like a fact-fulfills-fiction crossover. Throughout her time at United Artists, Mademoiselle Chanel did, in reality, layout gowns for Swanson, notably to engage in an opera diva in 1931’s Tonight or By no means. The serious-life monitor icon was making her transition from silent to sound movies, just like Nellie’s impending route in Babylon.