Margot Robbie Wore This Controversial Color to a Black-Tie Wedding

As a Best Actress Oscar nominee for I, Tonya, Margot Robbie has had plenty of black-tie occasions to dress up for as of late. Over the weekend, though, the actress attended a different sort of black-tie occasions with her husband, Tom Ackerley—the wedding of one of her best friends in her native Australia—and Ackerley documented it all on Instagram (as one does).
After wearing white to a wedding, one of the most common faux pas we hear of is wearing red to someone's nuptials as the bold color is said to distract from the couple. But Robbie just proved that it is, indeed, possible to pull the color off in a tasteful way. For starters, her The Vampire's Wife dress was quite modest (a red and revealing dress could certainly be a distraction). Not only that, but it had a metallic sheen to it that muted the bold color and simultaneously added to the formality of the dress.
So, if you love to wear red (it is a current It color, after all), you'd be wise to follow Robbie's lead the next time a wedding invitation says black tie.
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Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.
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