{"id":27710,"date":"2026-11-05T12:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scandalplanet.com\/nicole-kidman-margot-robbie-chanel-cruise-sydney-first-australia-runway\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:32:25","slug":"nicole-kidman-brings-chanels-first-australia-runway-to-sydney-with-margot-robbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghanahookup.com\/videos\/nicole-kidman-brings-chanels-first-australia-runway-to-sydney-with-margot-robbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman Brings Chanel\u2019s First Australia Runway to Sydney With Margot Robbie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Nico Grey \u00b7 Published

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Nicole Kidman<\/a> brought Chanel home on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. The French house staged its first official runway on Australian soil in 116 years at The Cutaway in Barangaroo, Sydney, a Cruise 2026\/27 replica of Matthieu Blazy\u2019s Biarritz debut, and she sat front row in a classic black suit and white top with fellow Chanel ambassador Margot Robbie<\/a> and Kylie Minogue, Nine.com.au<\/a> and the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> report. Two shows, 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. local. The collection hits boutiques the next day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nico Grey \u00b7 Photo: Mirko Tabasevic \/ NicoGrey.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019m Nico Grey. I run NicoGrey.com<\/a> and Scandal Planet<\/a>, I\u2019ve been behind the camera since 2001 and shot more than 2,000 scenes, and I know when a hometown night is bigger than a Paris night. Chanel didn\u2019t fly to Sydney for a soft launch. They flew for Nicole, Margot and Kylie. And for every client who will walk into a boutique tomorrow and buy what they just felt.<\/p>\n

Below: the look-by-look decoder for Kidman, Robbie and Minogue (including Minogue\u2019s afterparty change), what a Chanel \u201creplica show\u201d actually is, why Biarritz matters in Sydney, when the clothes hit the boutiques, and how tonight follows her Vogue Australia covers.<\/p>\n

What happened in Sydney today<\/h2>\n

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026.<\/strong> Chanel took over The Cutaway at Barangaroo for the Cruise 2026\/27 Sydney Replica show, the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> reports. Two high-octane seatings, 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. local, with an international crew and three booked-out Sydney hotels behind them, per Nine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is the first time in Chanel\u2019s 116-year history that the house has staged an official runway on Australian soil. The collection is Matthieu Blazy\u2019s debut Cruise, first shown in Biarritz in April and restaged here for the clients who buy it. Australian models Julia Nobis, Josephine Akuei, Gemma Ward, Catherine McNeil and Charlee Fraser walked, joined by First Nations models Latahlia Hickling and Tatyana Perry, the SMH notes.<\/p>\n

Front row: Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, Baz Luhrmann, Kylie Minogue, Dom Dolla, Cathy Freeman, Olivia DeJonge, Joel Edgerton and Christine Centenera (Vogue Australia\u2019s editor-in-chief), among others. The afterparty belonged to Minogue, who changed into black silk and took the stage after an introduction from Kidman and Luhrmann, Nine reports.<\/p>\n

The posts everyone is sharing<\/h2>\n

Film Updates posted Kidman and Robbie arriving together. Film Crave posted Robbie\u2019s look. McCraigyDimples posted Minogue. Margot Robbie Brasil posted more arrival footage. The set photos belong to the agencies, so we embed the posts instead of rehosting them:<\/p>\n

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Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie attend the Chanel fashion show in Sydney.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) November 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Margot Robbie photographed at the Chanel Cruise 2026\/27 show in Sydney.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Film Crave (@_filmcrave) November 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Kylie Minogue attended the CHANEL show this afternoon in Sydney.<\/p>\n

\u2014 C R A I G Y (@McCraigyDimples) November 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Margot Robbie na representa\u00e7\u00e3o da cole\u00e7\u00e3o Cruise da Chanel em Sydney na manh\u00e3 de hoje<\/p>\n

\u2014 Margot Robbie Brasil (@MargotRobbieBR) November 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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NICO\u2019S TAKE<\/span><\/div>\n
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Darling, Chanel waited 116 years to put a runway on Australian soil, and when they finally did it, Nicole Kidman was already in the black suit. Of course she was. Blazy named her ambassador in 2025, and half of Sydney was craning for a glimpse at The Cutaway.<\/p>\n

A replica show isn\u2019t a lesser show. It\u2019s the same Cruise collection from Biarritz in April, restaged so the Very Important Clients can feel it before they spend. Pavlovsky told the SMH: same collection, Australian angle. The clothes shop tomorrow. That\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago she opened a sequin Chanel jacket over a string bralette on three Vogue Australia covers. Tonight she brought the house to Barangaroo. The covers stop at lace. Her hub doesn\u2019t. See Nicole\u2019s scenes<\/a> \u2192<\/p>\n

\u2014 Nico<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Watch Nicole Kidman\u2019s best scenes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Vogue covers stopped at a string bralette. The Sydney runway stopped at a black suit. Her Scandal Planet hub doesn\u2019t: \u201cBabygirl,\u201d \u201cEyes Wide Shut,\u201d \u201cBig Little Lies,\u201d \u201cThe Paperboy\u201d and \u201cDead Calm,\u201d scene by scene.<\/p>\n

Watch Nicole Kidman\u2019s best scenes \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Look by look: Kidman, Robbie, Minogue<\/h2>\n
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Nicole Kidman at Women In Motion, Cannes, May 2025. Archival. Photo: Martin Kraft<\/a>, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nicole Kidman.<\/strong> Classic black suit, white top. Nine calls it the house classic. She\u2019s been tied to Chanel for more than two decades, from Baz Luhrmann\u2019s 2004 \u201cNo. 5 the Film\u201d to Blazy naming her ambassador in 2025. Tonight she didn\u2019t need sequins. The black suit said the same thing her Vogue Australia covers said two weeks ago: the house fits her, and she fits the house.<\/p>\n

Margot Robbie.<\/strong> Sheer white dress with a feathered flower at the bust, black heels and a handbag, per Nine. She\u2019s the last ambassador Karl Lagerfeld personally chose before his death in 2019, and she still sits where Chanel puts its weight. Black and white next to Kidman\u2019s black and white. Same house, two eras.<\/p>\n

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Kylie Minogue at Sziget Festival, August 2024. Archival. Photo: Tomica<\/a>, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kylie Minogue.<\/strong> White cardigan over a dress, black-and-gold chain belt slung low on the hips for the show. Then the change: black silk camisole and skirt for the afterparty stage, introduced by Kidman and Baz Luhrmann. That switch is the night in one move. Front-row white. Stage black. Same star.<\/p>\n

Also in the room:<\/strong> Dom Dolla and Cathy Freeman (who wore a crisp white Chanel tuxedo-style shirt made with Charvet), Olivia DeJonge in a blue crocheted Chanel jacket and black trousers, Joel Edgerton with Christine Centenera, and the Very Important Clients the show was really built for, the SMH notes.<\/p>\n

What a Chanel \u201creplica show\u201d actually is<\/h2>\n
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Margot Robbie in 2016. Archival. Photo: Gage Skidmore<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is not a different collection. Blazy\u2019s Cruise 2026\/27 debuted in Biarritz in April. Sydney restages that same show so clients in this market can sit in the room, feel the mood, then walk into a boutique and buy it. Bruno Pavlovsky, Chanel\u2019s president of fashion, told the SMH: \u201cAt Chanel, we never design something special for one city or one market. It\u2019s the same collection, but through a new angle. This Sydney, Australian angle will probably bring something a bit different, in terms of mood, in terms of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The set underlined the point: carpet the shade of sand, mirrored walls, a labyrinth of rooms, modelled on the original atelier Gabrielle \u201cCoco\u201d Chanel set up in Biarritz in 1915. Pavlovsky said the Biarritz choice was not about \u201cthe beach, the sea, or the surf.\u201d It was about the roots of Mademoiselle Chanel, where she started haute couture and where the little black dress, Blazy\u2019s \u201cfirst revenge dress,\u201d was born.<\/p>\n

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Boutique drop: shops tomorrow<\/h2>\n

The SMH is clear on the commercial beat. The show is for the VICs, the very important clients, who Chanel hopes will feel the experience strongly enough to walk into a boutique the next day, when the collection hits the stands, and start buying. That\u2019s Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, in Australia.<\/p>\n

The week around the show already stacked the table: about 150 international guests from Monday, private Australian Ballet performances, facials, surfing lessons, per Nine. Next week Chanel reopens its refurbished Melbourne boutique on Flinders Lane. The brand\u2019s first Australian boutique opened in Sydney in the 1980s. Tonight was the stamp that Australia is not just a handbag market.<\/p>\n

How this follows her Vogue Australia covers<\/h2>\n

Two weeks ago, on Oct. 24, we decoded Nicole\u2019s 12th Vogue Australia cover run<\/a>: three November 2026 covers, including the red-to-gold sequin Chanel jacket left open over a Madre Natura string bralette and the cover line \u201cI\u2019m a heart-on-my-sleeve kind of person.\u201d The issue went on sale Nov. 2. The Chanel Sydney runway was already flagged in that story as the next development to watch.<\/p>\n

That development is tonight. Same house. Same ambassador. Different register. The covers were intimate and undone. The runway was public and sharp. Both say the same thing about where Kidman sits in Chanel\u2019s current chapter under Blazy.<\/p>\n

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Nicole Kidman at the Venice Film Festival, August 2024. Archival. Photo: Harald Krichel<\/a>, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Confirmed vs. my opinion<\/h2>\n

Confirmed:<\/strong> first official Chanel runway on Australian soil (Nine, SMH); Cruise 2026\/27 Sydney Replica of Blazy\u2019s Biarritz show (SMH); Kidman in black suit + white top, Robbie in sheer white dress with feathered flower, Minogue in white cardigan then black silk for the afterparty with Kidman and Luhrmann introducing (Nine); boutique drop the next day (SMH); Pavlovsky quotes on same collection \/ Australian angle (SMH).<\/p>\n

My read (opinion):<\/strong> that this night was always going to belong to Kidman, that a replica show for VICs is how Chanel turns a feeling into a sale, and that Minogue\u2019s white-to-black change was the sharpest fashion beat of the evening. None of the three stars has posted an official comment we are quoting here yet.<\/p>\n

Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie in photos<\/h2>\n

These are archival shots from Wikimedia Commons with the year on each one. They are not from tonight\u2019s show. The arrival and front-row photos belong to the photo agencies, so we link to them in the posts above instead.<\/p>\n

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Nicole Kidman at Women In Motion, Cannes, May 2025. Archival. Photo: Martin Kraft<\/a>, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Margot Robbie in 2016. Archival. Photo: Gage Skidmore<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Kylie
Kylie Minogue at Sziget Festival, August 2024. Archival. Photo: Tomica<\/a>, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

What to watch next<\/h2>\n

We\u2019ll be watching for official Chanel stills or a house statement from the Sydney seating, any on-record comment from Kidman, Robbie or Minogue, the Friday boutique sell-through, and next week\u2019s Melbourne Flinders Lane reopening. We\u2019ll update this page if the house or the ambassadors comment.<\/p>\n

FAQ<\/h2>\n

Was this Chanel\u2019s first runway in Australia?<\/h3>\n

Yes. Nine and the Sydney Morning Herald report that in Chanel\u2019s 116-year history the house had never staged an official runway on Australian soil until the Cruise 2026\/27 Sydney Replica show at The Cutaway in Barangaroo on Nov. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n

What did Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and Kylie Minogue wear?<\/h3>\n

Per Nine: Kidman wore a classic black suit with a white top; Robbie wore a sheer white dress with a feathered flower at the bust, black heels and a handbag; Minogue wore a white cardigan over a dress with a black-and-gold chain belt, then changed into a black silk camisole and skirt to perform at the afterparty after Kidman and Baz Luhrmann introduced her.<\/p>\n

What is a Chanel replica show?<\/h3>\n

It restages a collection already shown elsewhere for clients in a new market. Sydney restaged Matthieu Blazy\u2019s Cruise 2026\/27 debut from Biarritz (April) so Australian VICs could feel it in the room. Bruno Pavlovsky told the SMH it is the same collection through an Australian angle. The clothes hit boutiques the next day.<\/p>\n

How does this connect to Nicole Kidman\u2019s Vogue Australia covers?<\/h3>\n

On Oct. 24 she landed her 12th Vogue Australia cover run, including a sequin Chanel jacket over a string bralette. The Nov. 5 Sydney runway was the next Chanel beat we flagged in that story. Same ambassador, same house, public runway edition.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Nico. She brought the house home. The scenes that made her a screen force are still on her hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fact-check: Scandal Planet Desk<\/p>\n

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Follow Nico on X @NicoGrey_XO<\/a><\/strong> for my takes before they hit the site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What do you think?<\/strong> Whose look won the night: Kidman\u2019s black suit, Robbie\u2019s feathered flower, or Minogue\u2019s white-to-black change? Tell us on X @celeb124<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photos: the card and share graphic use Nicole Kidman at Cannes 2025<\/a> by Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Margot Robbie in 2016<\/a> by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (archival photos, not from the Sydney show). In-story photos are from Wikimedia Commons with the credit under each one; \u201cArchival\u201d means an earlier year. Scene stills are images already on Nicole Kidman\u2019s Scandal Planet hub. Arrival and front-row photos from tonight are linked via the X embeds above and were not rehosted.<\/p>\n

Sources<\/h2>\n