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Kylie Minogue has achieved her dream of having fellow Aussie favourite Margot Robbie play her, thanks to a handbag campaign that’s generating buzz across the globe.
Luxury fashion house Chanel has brought the duo together for the promotion, which is fronted by Robbie and sees French filmmaker Michel Gondry playfully recreate his clever music video from Minogue’s 2001 hit Come Into My World.
“Chanel! Margot! Michel! Me What an experience bringing back all of the ‘Come Into My World’ music video feels!” an excited Minogue wrote in an Instagram post about the campaign.
The original music video for Come Into My World, a Grammy-winning dance track from the singer’s eighth studio album Fever, was filmed in one take with motion control cameras at an intersection in the Boulogne-Billancourt suburb of Paris.
A feat of meticulous choreography involving around 50 extras, it shows Minogue collecting her laundry from a drycleaner then walking the same circuit around a busy streetscape four times. On each loop, she is joined by another duplicate Kylie.
“It’s all happening in that video,” Minogue reflected during an interview with Vogue on the set of the Chanel shoot.
“Really, there’s skaters, walkers, the mattress flying out of the window, there’s like a fight, there’s bikes, there’s everything.”
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In the new video, described by Chanel as a “contemporary take” on the original, duplicate versions of Wuthering Heights and Barbie star Robbie sashay through the streets carrying the Chanel 25 handbag in different styles and colours.
She emerges from a bookstore, slides elegantly down a car bonnet, swings around a lamp post and greets a dog, while a singing Minogue makes a cameo appearance from a first-floor apartment window before later passing the multiple Robbies on the footpath.
The campaign has received a gushing reception from the pair’s fans, many of whom labelled it “iconic”.
“How is this real? My favourite actress Margot Robbie and my fave pop queen Kylie Minogue in the most stunning MV. This is literally my dream collab I can watch this endlessly!” wrote one follower on YouTube.
“This is perfect. The original music video is a masterpiece. Margo going back in time here while people go backwards is genius,” enthused another.
On Instagram, Kylie’s sister and fellow singer Dannii wrote simply: “Bags of style ”.
Gondry, who directed the Oscar-winning film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and has made music videos for bands and artists including the Chemical Brothers, Paul McCartney, Radiohead and the White Stripes, said he was thrilled to reconnect with Minogue.
“I’ve been dreaming about Kylie for 25 years – so I finally found a way to see her again,” he told Vogue.
The campaign’s Australian stars – who, coincidentally, both had stints on Neighbours, albeit decades apart – have been equally excited to work together.
Minogue has said previously that if a biopic of her life was ever made, Robbie would be her top choice to play her.
“Margot Robbie, in my dreams,” she told E! News several years ago. “She’d have the Australian accent down, that’s for sure.”
Learning of the comments only last year during a BBC radio interview, Robbie was clearly both surprised and flattered, but said she couldn’t possible do it.
“I am beyond honoured… Of course, I couldn’t do it – I can’t sing. I can’t sing like Kylie.”
The actor – who has been the centre of attention recently for her portrayal of Cathy opposite fellow Aussie Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff in the divisive box-office hit Wuthering Heights – said in her interview with Vogue this week that playing Kylie in the handbag campaign, where she didn’t have to sing, was “perfect”.
“I’m doing Kylie without having to sing and ruin that for everyone,” she laughed.
The Chanel ambassador also described it as a full-circle moment, because the first concert she attended was a performance by Minogue on her Fever tour.
“I was 10 years old,” she recalled.
“We drove, my best friend and her mum and I, drove to Sydney for it. I don’t know if I’d ever even been to Sydney before… so that was exciting.”
She added that she also thought that the Come Into My World music video was “cool and clever”.
Behind the scenes of the original music video.
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Asked what they would sing if they got the chance to do karaoke together, Minogue nominated John Farnham’s The Voice, while Robbie opted for “the unofficial Australian anthem” – The Horses, by Daryl Braithwaite.
“If Kylie and I did karaoke together, I would die and go to heaven, because that would be so fun.”
Meanwhile, if the new campaign has left you lusting after a Chanel 25 handbag, the fashion house’s website shows that a “Mini” version retails for $A10,200 while a “Large” handbag will set you back $A12,660.