Jul 17, 2023

Only Natural Diamonds, Alexandra Shipp Wearing Broken English Jewelry

From life in plastic to life in diamonds. The Barbie star takes dressing up in natural diamonds to the next level.

Photographed by: AB + DM, Styled by: Alexandra Mandelkorn, Words by: Leah Faye Cooper

Before Alexandra Shipp talks diamonds, Hollywood, and her role in Greta Gerwig’s hotly anticipated Barbie, she warns that her cat may flash us on Zoom. “I’m sorry [but] it’s her kink,” Shipp says, “and I can’t kink shame my cat, you know what I mean?” The actress and her attention-seeking feline (named Evander Elizabeth Holyfield Shipp as a nod to a bitten ear) are at home in L.A., in an office-slash-music room appointed with shelved books, hanging plants, and a guitar. Born and raised in Phoenix, Shipp moved to L.A. at 17 and landed her first role in 2009’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. She has since appeared in Straight Outta Compton and Love, Simon, joined the Marvel Universe as Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse, and starred opposite Andrew Garfield in Tick, Tick… Boom!. Soon, the world will see Shipp portray Writer Barbie—a part she never envisioned until she read the script. “It just wasn’t what I was expecting for a Barbie movie at all,” she says, adding that when she was asked to audition, she assumed the film was an animated kids movie.

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Alexandra Shipp Wears Broken English Jewelry

EARRINGS NIKOS KOULIS • RINGS (L-R) HELLER JEWELERS, ENGELBERT FROM BROKEN ENGLISH • TOP AND PANTS NAEEM KAHN

Alexandra Shipp wears Broken English Jewelry

NECKLACE VINTAGE JENNA BLAKE FROM BROKEN ENGLISH • SMILEY MARIA TASH • EARRINGS CARTIER • HAT CAROLINA HERRERA

NECKLACE VINTAGE JENNA BLAKE FROM BROKEN ENGLISH • RINGS (L-R) CARTIER. HELLER JEWELERS, DE BEERS, NIKOS KOULIS • WATCHES CARTIER • DRESS AND HAT CAROLINA HERRERA

Alexandra Shipp wears Broken English jewelry