In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.
Brimming with talent and eager to make her mark in the world, Estella (Emma Stone) reaches London in the '70s at the birth of punk and glam rock, and falls in with petty criminals Jasper and Horace (Joel Fry and Paul Walter Hauser) as she plots to take on a powerful fashion designer (Emma Thompson), who just so happens to have a connection to her own past...
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