A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: Margot Robbie’s New Film and Its Fashion Resonance
Margot Robbie makes her transition back to the big screen in the romantic fantasy film A Big Bold Beautiful Journey on September 19, 2025, directed by Kogonada (After Yang, Columbus), and co-starring Colin Farrell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Lily Rabe.
The film has already begun to generate buzz for its dreamy tone, original premise, and emotionally layered narrative—the type of cinematic canvas that will allow Robbie to strut her stuff, both as an actress and a contemporary fashion icon.
The Film: Romance, Fantasy, and the Unexpected
In A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Robbie stars as Sarah, whose life takes a wildly unexpected detour when an unusual GPS within David’s (Farrell) car takes them on a surreal cross-country trek.
The two begin an unexpected growth journey that propels them through emotion’s and literal genres, touching upon their notions of love, purpose, and connection.
Early descriptions of A Big Bold Beautiful Journey and production notes suggest that Kogonada intends to tell a story that marries fantasy realism and character-driven narrative.
Kogonada’s typical restraints and use of visual symbolism suggest that the viewer will be rewarded with aesthetically rich stories, and discovery of similar emotional storytelling merit.
This role aligns well with Robbie’s capacity for thoughtful, quiet roles, as shown in I, Tonya, and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.
A Style Icon In Life and On Screen
It’s clear Margot Robbie is highly influential beyond the box or the big screen.
As the years have gone by, she has emerged as one of the most watched fashion figures—not just in terms of beauty and charm, but because of profound collaborations she has had with designers and stylists.
Whether she is walking a red carpet in Chanel or promoting a blockbuster with a high-concept press tour, her fashion choices do not happen casually—they are always considered with narrative thoughtfulness in mind.
One of the biggest pop culture fashion moments in the last few years was Robbie’s press tour for Barbie in 2023. Styled by Andrew Mukamal, Robbie was able to replicate the doll’s most iconic looks: from the 1959 striped swimsuit look, to 1980s glam.
Robbie’s creative journey through fashion wasn’t about purely nostalgia—it was a curated mix that became a crossover of costume design and high fashion, impacting trends like the “Barbiecore” aesthetic worldwide and reinventing how actors participate in film promotion.
This kind of creative relationship between fashion and film has many excited about A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.
Although the costume direction for the new film has been done under a cloak of secrecy, the subjective nature of the narrative, which is imaginative, soulful, and multi-layered to the screen, lends itself to visual storytelling through fashion.
History suggests that Robbie will have an opportunity to likely play a character that has an aesthetic or wardrobe that is just as memorable as the performance.
The Fashion Ripple Effect
Robbie, like many other actors, has a role in shaping the cultural landscape of fashion, not only as a person with personal style, but through the way her characters influence mainstream aesthetics in relation to film.
Think of Audrey Hepburn’s little black dress, Cher’s plaid in Clueless, or Zendaya’s red carpet transformations that are somehow tied in with her film releases—each of these examples signal how cinema has massive influence on our closets around the world.
However, there is also an additional layer with Robbie, in that her fashion continues the character’s story off-screen.
Barbie was not a character for Robbie, she was a legacy—and every look had impact on how that character was represented in the campaign.
As she now prepares for a deeper, more introspective role in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, both fans and fashion followers are curious about how style will contribute to Sarah’s emotional transformation in the story.
Final Thoughts
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is more than just a romance fantasy.
It looks like it could contribute to a rich conversation about self-discovery, and the fact that Margot Robbie is at the center of it carries promises of beauty, performance, and—one-hundred percent—fashion that sparks interest.
Her history confirms she is seriously involved in more than just acting in big stories—she is creating moments that have an impact visually and culturally.
With the premiere approaching, the excitement is as much about what happens on-screen as how it will reverberate across style, storytelling, and everything in between.
