A decade of bombshell gowns: Barbie star's best looks

Margot Robbie doesn't just turn up to a premiere. She turns up in character.

Over the last decade the Australian star, 36, has worn real Barbie dolls' outfits, a Sharon Tate tribute and a necklace that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, and her press tours have become events of their own.

Here are nine of her best looks, in order, from the 2016 Oscars to her Wuthering Heights era.

1. Golden girl at the 2016 Oscars

At the Academy Awards in February 2016, Margot went full old Hollywood in a Tom Ford gown, a look Grazia ranks among her best ever.

The fitted gold design caught every flash on the carpet, and it set the tone for the decade to come.

2. Crystals at the 2018 Vanity Fair party

Two years later, at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in March 2018, she wore a Chanel Spring 2018 Haute Couture gown covered in crystals, with Jimmy Choo sandals, according to Grazia.

3. Channelling Sharon Tate

For the UK premiere of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood in July 2019, Margot played to the film.

She wore Oscar de la Renta in the style of a late-1960s screen siren, Grazia noted, echoing Sharon Tate, the actress she played in the movie.

4. 4,750 beads at the 2020 Golden Globes

At the Golden Globes in January 2020, she wore a Chanel Fall 2019 Haute Couture set with a bodice embroidered with 4,750 beads. It reportedly took 225 hours to make.

Her hairstylist, Bryce Scarlett, kept her hair loose and messy on purpose. "I wanted her hair to have a slept-in textured soft waves look to complement her bold and modern Chanel gown," he said, according to Grazia.

5. Harley Quinn goes glam

Weeks later, at the world premiere of Birds of Prey in London, Margot gave Harley Quinn a glamorous makeover.

She paired a black Dries Van Noten spring/summer 2020 gown with hot pink opera gloves, styled by Kate Young, Grazia reported.

6. Barbie, the doll, in real life

Then came Barbie, and the most talked-about press tour in years.

At the world premiere in Los Angeles in July 2023 (pictured top), she wore custom Schiaparelli by Daniel Roseberry, copied from Mattel's 1960 Solo in the Spotlight Barbie: a strapless sequin bodice, a pink chiffon scarf and a crystal choker.

Three days later, at the European premiere in London, she recreated the 1960 Enchanted Evening Barbie in Vivienne Westwood by Andreas Kronthaler, with the house's orb motif picked out in crystals, according to Grazia.

7. Vintage Mugler at the 2024 Vanity Fair party

After the 2024 Oscars, where she wore regal black Versace, Margot changed into something far more daring.

At the Vanity Fair Oscar party, she wore a vintage Mugler gown from the Spring/Summer 1996 collection, according to Grazia.

8. Elizabeth Taylor's diamonds

For the world premiere of Wuthering Heights in Los Angeles in January 2026, she went gothic in custom Schiaparelli by Daniel Roseberry: a lace corset bodice and a red and black ombre velvet mermaid skirt, Coveteur reported.

Around her neck was the Taj Mahal diamond necklace that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor, which Coveteur said is worth "over eight million dollars".

9. Corsets all the way

The rest of the Wuthering Heights tour was one Victorian corset after another.

Coveteur counted a 1988 Vivienne Westwood quilted leather corset and bubble skirt, a Wiederhoeft corset for The Graham Norton Show, and a custom burgundy velvet Chanel gown by Matthieu Blazy for the Paris premiere.

Ten years on from that gold Tom Ford, she is still the star everyone waits to see on the carpet. Whatever her next movie is, the press tour will be worth watching.