Margot Robbie Wore Ashi Studio Couture To The ‘Wuthering Heights’ Sydney Premiere
Margot Robbie attended the Wuthering Heights Sydney premiere at the State Theatre today.
This Ashi Studio Couture look is arguably the most thematically precise of the entire press run. It sits at the intersection of decay and romanticism, mirroring the emotional core of Wuthering Heights.
At first glance, the palette reads bridal écru, gauze light and almost ghostly, but the rusted treatment fractures any illusion of purity. The hand painted bodice, aged to look weather stained and time worn, feels less like a garment and more like an artefact unearthed from the moors. It carries the visual language of something shaped by wind, grief and time.
The 18th century corsetry reference is key. Unlike the mid or late Victorian silhouettes seen elsewhere on this tour, this reaches further back into Gothic romanticism, when boning created rigid social armour. On Catherine Earnshaw, that structure speaks to constraint: the mould she forces herself into when she chooses Edgar over Heathcliff.
The corset appears rusted, as though the emotional cost of that choice has begun to corrode it from within. It suggests a body and psyche that cannot remain contained.
The distressed tulle sleeves and skirt unravel that rigidity. Moving like mist, they erode the authority of the bodice and shift the mood from structure to haunting. This is no longer Catherine confined by society, but Catherine untethered.
Earlier stops on the tour leaned heavily into red environments, from velvet gowns to crimson step-and-repeats and blood toned florals, extensions of the film’s emotional temperature. They placed Margot inside the storm of passion and obsession. Here, the temperature drops.
Not Catherine alive on the moors, but Catherine as memory.
The shift in backdrop does as much narrative work as the dress itself. Visually and thematically, this reads like a closing chapter, even if it is not officially the final stop of the tour. The absence of red feels deliberate to me,
If the earlier looks embodied the living heroine, this one frames the legend she leaves behind.
What makes this especially impressive is how the tour has evolved rather than repeated itself. The red phase, the storm, and now this cooler chapter have unfolded like acts in a play.
I’ve admired the consistency of the storytelling. Every look has felt considered, mapped and emotionally in sync with the film. That level of cohesion is rare, and it has elevated this run far beyond standard premiere dressing.
Even if you’re not a fan of thematic press tours, you have to admit that this one was executed exceptionally well.
Stylist: Andrew Mukamal.
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