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- Keira Knightley said that she wore Chanel at home every day during lockdown.
- The actress told Harper's Bazaar UK that she dressed up with her daughter to go on their trampoline.
- Knightley's husband James Righton joined in while wearing an "array of peacock-colored Gucci suits."
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Keira Knightley rejected the comfort of wearing sweatpants during lockdown in favor of dressing head-to-toe in Chanel and applying red lipstick.
As part of an interview with Harper's Bazaar UK for the cover of its July issue, the 36-year-old "Pride & Prejudice" actress told the magazine that she regularly played dress-up during the pandemic with her eldest daughter Edie, 6.
"We have a trampoline in our garden, and we decided we were only allowed to wear dresses on it," she told the publication.
"I put on red lipstick every day, and every bit of Chanel that I have in my cupboard, and my daughter Edie had Chanel ribbons plaited into her hair and fairy wings," she added.
The actress said that her husband James Righton, the former keyboard player in British band Klaxons, was allowed to join her and her daughters on the trampoline if he wore something from his "array of peacock-colored Gucci suits."
Knightley, who is also a mother to one-year-old Delilah, said that the ritual was a way to boost morale in the household during a difficult time for everyone.
She told the publication's editor-in-chief, Lydia Slater: "I thought, 'What is the point of these lovely things sitting in the wardrobe when it feels quite apocalyptic and scary outside?' It felt so important to be really happy for the kids!"
She signed a deal to become the face of Chanel's Mademoiselle fragrance in 2006, replacing Kate Moss. Since then, Vogue reports that she has become a renowned ambassador for the luxury fashion house, fronting their Rouge Coco lipstick and Coco Crush fine jewelry.
Speaking to Harper's Bazaar UK about her love of dressing up, Knightley described make-up as her "armor," despite the fact that her husband and eldest child "don't like it at all."
"My husband says, 'Oh, you're her.' They don't see it as me - and I don't either," she said. "It's something other, like a character."
Asked if it was a nice character, she said: "Not particularly. No, she can't be. She's got to be quite fierce. It's an armor, and I think that's how it has to be."
Knightley's acting portfolio, alongside her modeling career, has amassed her a reported net worth of $80 million and, according to the Telegraph, she was the second-highest-paid actress on the Forbes list in 2008.
Despite this wealth, in 2014 she told Glamour magazine that she allocates herself a salary of roughly $50,000 per year, saying her motivation was that a lavish lifestyle could limit the company she keeps. "It alienates you. Some of my best, most hilarious times have been in the least luxurious places," she said.