VOGUE VAULT

It was 2015, and Margot Robbie was shining bright and new in Hollywood …

MARGOT ROBBIE HAD just arrived in Hollywood when she first covered Vogue Australia. Having captivated audiences as Leonardo DiCaprio’s gold-digging wife in Wolf of Wall Street, she instantly picked up a slew of new roles, including starring alongside Will Smith in Focus and playing Jane in The Legend of Tarzan.

Looking back on the shoot for the March 2015 issue, photographer Alexi Lubomirski noticed Robbie’s rising star quality. “She knew how to use her body to convey an emotion in front of the camera, which is always a blessing for a photographer,” he remembers. “She was very warm, friendly and unaffected.”

The shoot took place in a studio in New York City that had been carefully styled to look like an old boudoir. Lubomirski had asked Robbie to play the role of a lovelorn artist’s muse. Even then, she had the makings of the Hollywood golden girl. “The shoot was a breeze and one of those days where everything just falls into place because you have amazing ingredients,” says Lubomirski.