From Bodycon Mini Skirts to Custom Louis Vuitton Gowns, This is Emma Stone’s Life in Looks

Hi, I m Emma Stone and this is My Life In Looks.

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Oh my God, this was the first premiere that I ever went to

for Superbad, which was the first movie I ever did.

I remember it being very, very exciting.

Tara Swennen was the stylist for this.

Superbad was so, so exciting

because I just loved the script so much.

I had been auditioning so much

and this amazing casting director, Alison Jones,

I had been into her a bunch of times

for different sitcom pilots and all these things,

and so she thought of me for this role, Jules in Superbad.

It was like months I went in

and did improv with Jonah for Judd Apatow,

who was a producer

and my best friend in the world is Martha MacIsaac

who played Becca, the other female character in Superbad,

and we lived together after that.

And just, you know, life changing in every way.

I guess I would say to myself back then, like, go for it.

How exciting that you get to do this.

I don t think there s ever gonna be anything in here

where I m gonna be like filled with regret

because what s the point?

You know, every time period of your life is different.

Next up we have, oh my, okay, wait, hold on.

I told you before that I wasn t gonna say I regret anything.

I immediately am going against that.

It s not about the dress though, it s the spray tan.

Listen, I m from Arizona

and I don t have any pigment in my skin.

So growing up I was really obsessed

with the idea of being tan.

That sort of followed me the first couple years

that I was going to these types of things.

I thought, you know, if you re dressing up

and if you wanna look great,

you should get a really, really dark spray tan.

If you look closely, my hands are,

it looks like I m wearing gloves

because it s not on my hands.

I love this dress, I remember feeling so great in this,

so great that I had to get a spray tan

to really enhance how great I felt.

Easy A was another very pivotal moment for me,

I loved that character so deeply.

I love Olive because she s so sort of,

I never know how to pronounce this word

because I only read it, preternaturally.

I thought that albeit was all bite for so many years

because I would see it written down

and I was like, I ll bite everybody.

It s albeit, so preternaturally come at me,

internet, I m gonna get canceled for that one.

She s so precocious, I guess is a different word for it

in terms of how she relates

to the sort of high school atmosphere

and I think that she s very in that world,

but not of that world.

Yeah, I just love Olive, she rocked.

We re gonna go to the next look now

and I can t wait to show you what we ve got.

Oh God, it s the spray tan again.

I look like one solid thumb and that dress is so pretty.

I just, why did I decide to match my skin tone to the dress?

That s what bums me out about this,

it s such a beautiful dress, such a beautiful shade

and I just, I really thought that the tan was the move.

That was a really, really fun night because I brought my mom

and we sat next to Angelina Jolie

and she asked Angelina Jolie if she had any kids.

The Golden Globes is sort of like these big round tables

and it feels like you re just like constantly

running into all these people

that you ve only seen I guess on TV or in movies.

Everybody s shorter than you think they are,

except for Conan O Brien who s seven and a half feet tall.

Here we go, next up is, oh,

this is Giambattista Valli, the Oscars 2012,

and I presented Best Visual Effects with Ben Stiller.

I was very nervous, Ben Stiller was great and very nice

and we had done the rehearsal.

It was fun for me because honestly,

in any of these circumstances,

there s nothing more fun for me than performing.

So anytime I get to kind of do a bit,

it s like on talk shows,

like getting to do lip syncing or a game

or something feels way better

to me than doing an interview like this.

Thanks a lot.

I had an amazing time here

because it was so fun to, you know, ask Jonah to dance

or like to be this really kind of over the top character

and Ben was such an amazing straight man.

I mean, he s iconically an incredible straight man

in so many things.

That was a real boon to have Ben Stiller

straight manning my cuckoo ness.

Oh yes, Spider-Man premier in London in 2014.

This is Versace.

I love that color so much, that bright yellow,

this beautiful gold necklace,

the pink and the whole thing, I loved it.

I mean I really loved doing Spider-Man.

I loved everybody I worked with.

I met Andrew there, I met Sally Field,

Mark Webb was wonderful.

Like it was really a special time in my life.

So that s the recurring theme is the people,

more than kind of like the film itself

is what sticks with me for so long.

And so I have only like the fondest memories

of this whole experience.

I will say the press tours for these films,

I don t really know how people do it.

I remember it being like nine countries in maybe two weeks

and you re functioning in a state of jet lag

never previously known to you.

I felt truly psychotic the entire time.

So I m half dead in this picture, but I love the look.

Okay, oh yes, okay, so this was Valentino,

it was the Birdman premier at Venice Film Festival.

Mara Roszak, my hairdresser as we say, not stylist,

had just given me a fresh bob.

We were very excited about this bob,

can t wait to get there again.

Mara, she s over there, please soon.

I loved the shade of this, the whole thing

and this was my first time at the Venice Film Festival,

which is so incredible.

You ride in Gondolas everywhere.

I d never been to Venice, Italy before.

And it feels very romantic

and very intense as you can see from,

I mean look at that guy.

It feels like that energy coming at you,

but then you get on a gondola and it s like quiet

and you re on the canals, it was amazing.

Birdman felt like I thought that Alejandro

was joking when he asked me to do it.

I was like, there s no way you want me to play this part

with this incredible cast and you re the director.

It just really kind of threw me for a loop.

It really freaked me out and made me so excited

and we had all these rehearsals

for a month to choreograph everything

because every scene was done in one take.

And I do think that that experience sort of shifted

my relationship to films that I ve wanted

to be part of since, my instinct

is just to choose high wire acts.

I like when someone is swinging for the fences.

Even if you miss, you re really trying for something

and it doesn t feel like safe or complacent

and I don t expect to be in that position

for a long time, while I have the opportunity

to choose films that feel like that,

that s what I try to do.

And so Birdman was really kind of the birth of that.

Oh, look at her go, in her chartreuse,

That s Elie Saab with some I believe Tiffany cuffs

at the end of the dress,

which look like they re part of the sleeves,

but they re not, don t be fooled.

Were they slightly tacked to the end of the sleeves?

Sure, yeah.

All right, we took a little creative license,

but no, they re not part of the dress.

What is wrong with me?

There s something so great about this color in general.

Some might call it putrid, a little gross,

you know, but not us.

We love it, even dyed the shoes to match,

if you ll notice those, it did not come in that color,

that s a dye job.

The Lego Movie was that year

and I got to get a Lego Oscar, so great night.

Oh look, wait,

this was just the other day, huh?

Right, no, I m kidding, this is Vogue in 2016.

I m wearing a Michael Kors top

and who knows what s on the bottom.

It was so fun, it was all wigs

and it was just kind of all over, I think the WB lot

or the paramount lot and we were just dressing up

in all these different things kind of in a tribute

to the, you know, Mia being an actress

in La La Land in the film,

which is what this was for.

And it was great and I was really surprised

that this was the cover picture

and thought it was so cool.

Okay, oh, La La Land.

Mary Zophres was the costume designer.

The inspiration from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,

the Jacques Demy movie was pretty resonant

throughout all of this sort of color scape of this movie.

It s a lot of, you know, bright and prime colors

and everything was pretty much a solid shade.

This yellow dress reminds me of that one

that we had at the Spider-Man premiere.

It s like a very similar shade

of that like buttery buttercup yellow.

I had done a cabaret, Damien Chazelle, our director

had come to see me in cabaret, much like Sally Bowles,

Mia doesn t have to be a perfect singer,

which is the only way

that I possibly could have played this role

because I am not a natural born singer.

I took voice lessons for so many years

and it just didn t ever really progress to the point

where it s like she is diamond in the wool singer.

It was a joy to get to sing in a movie

and not have this immense pressure

of needing to sound perfect.

We had to dance like this and to do tap training

and our ballroom training and it was great.

Ah, yes.

This was the Oscars in 2017 and I m wearing Givenchy.

This dress was very special.

There were a lot of fittings for this.

The fringe was really fun, felt very kind of old Hollywood.

It s also really intense buildup period

to a night like this.

I learned in that time period that the sort of going out

and promoting a film like this film

is longer than you ever rehearsed or shot the film.

Like it s such a long sort of road

to a night like this.

This is like the final night.

It s very emotional on a lot of levels

and very surreal on a lot of levels.

It s like very tearful or was for me,

like very tearful and really intense.

And it s also like saying goodbye to all of those people

that you ve been doing this, you ve made the film with

and then you ve been out, going to all these places

or you know, talking about this film for so long.

And it is the last night.

It s really emotional, it was very emotional.

My proudest achievement is my spelling Pedro.

I can spell really well

but I can t say preternaturally or albeit.

I have a GED, anyway, here s our next look.

Louis Vuitton, it was the Met Ball,

Heavenly Bodies was the theme.

This is really the Super Bowl for designers

I would say, it is beautiful

and looks like I m going on a ship.

A ship is kind of a heavenly body

because it s like how is it so big

and still staying afloat, you know,

in terms of the physics of it.

If someone could explain that to me, that would be great.

This is a still from The Favorite.

It was my first time working with one Mr. Yorgos Lanthimos.

It was an amazing experience.

Another cast and crew that I absolutely love

and adore to this day.

We shot it on location at this place called Hatfield House,

45 minutes from London.

It was all very old and very beautiful

and we weren t allowed to sit on anything

and they put a pine cone

on each chair throughout the sort of palace

to ensure that we wouldn t sit on it.

And I remember thinking that was like so cool and sadistic,

but you know what you could do.

Don t tell them, you could lift up

the pine cone and sit on it.

This was Sandy Powell, costume designer, she s a genius.

She s a legend.

My first time ever really wearing a corset.

I can confirm, it does shift your organs after a while.

My body shape was different

for like I would say about a month after The Favorite

because it was extremely tight.

It pulls you in, I ve got a very big rib cage,

so it s like an intense thing to maneuver.

My body was definitely not built for a corset.

That s a gift that keeps on giving.

cause now I can really hold my breath

for a long time underwater

and I think it s because of the corset.

Okay, hello.

This is the cover of British Vogue shot by Craig McDean.

This is a look that Rachel Goodwin completely nailed,

but you re told to not do anymore,

which is a blue eye, blush pink

and a red lip, you know, like an 80s look.

But here, it s incredible.

All credit work credit is due.

Rachel Goodwin is incredible and brilliant

and we ve been working together for 20 years.

But I will say I met a red lip when I was in youth theater

doing my own makeup.

I played many characters

and I learned to do my makeup with Ben Nye,

if you know, you know.

I was like playing Eeyore

and old women where I would draw on wrinkles and stuff

and I definitely had to wear a red lip

as a stepsister in Cinderella

at the Herberger Theater Center.

And one of the best parts

about that red lipstick was I was 13

and I had to put it on, you know, every day.

But I had braces

and for the entire show I just had like red lipstick

stuck in my braces.

So no, Rachel didn t introduce me to a red lip,

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You know, you can t really think about the 700 hours

of craftsmanship while you re wearing it

or else you won t be able to move.

There s so many people working on these clothes

and it takes so much care in craftsmanship.

Whenever there is a dress that I ve gotten to wear,

I ve been lucky enough to wear it

that has taken a lot of hard work,

you just feel grateful that you get to wear it

and it really does remind you

of that thing in Devil Wears Prada,

You know, where it s art that you live your life in.

It really is true, it s pretty amazing.

That said, Nicola, one of the great loves

of my life, I saw the memes.

Okay, I saw the memes

that I looked like a waffle.

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The color brown,

I do understand because of the honeycomb shape,

it is a little bit waffle esque and I like that

because waffles are my favorite food.

So you got got.

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My favorite place in the whole wide world, SNL.

SNL has always been really personal to me.

I did happen to meet my husband there as well,

but my favorite, favorite performer

of all time is Gilda Radner.

I grew up obviously watching SNL every Saturday

that was on at the time, which also I was so lucky

I was watching 90s SNL, insane cast, so incredible.

But I also knew so much about Gilda.

Gilda has always held

such a deeply special place in my heart.

So Lauren was like this,

I just couldn t imagine ever meeting Lauren.

And the first time I met Lauren, I fully burst into tears

and was just like, I couldn t speak.

And honestly, the day that I got the call to host SNL

for the first time, I was not well.

I cried so hard it was like somebody had died,

but it was in the positive way.

It was like the greatest, greatest dream

of my life to get to go be there.

And so it s always meant so much to me

and it s just my favorite place to be.

This is a still from Poor Things.

Holly Waddington was our costume designer,

brilliant beyond belief,

just created such inspired, unique

looks for a person who is not sure

how to put everything together on her own body,

here it s bloomers with this sheer sort of petticoat

that would be worn under another outfit.

Also, this ruffled shirt obviously

would need a coat over it,

but what does Bella Baxter know?

She has no idea how that goes together.

So she just put on whatever she wanted.

Holly won the Oscar for this.

This was so genius and she was under great duress

because this was in 2021 when there was a lot

of delays coming to Budapest from England

where she typically works in materials,

in all of this stuff that she needed to make.

Everything had to be made, nothing was bought.

So she had a really huge job cut out for her

in this time period

and she just pulled it off so beautifully

by no help of mine because I hate fittings

and I was always like, oh yeah,

we have to do another fitting.

And just making her life a nightmare.

I think from the beginning, we went to Athens early on

before we shot the film, Yorgos and Holly

and I kind of talked through mood boards and fabrics

and all of these things

and back to the sort of chartreuse world,

she wanted colors that were a little off,

like a little strange, you know,

very evocative of that kind of time period.

She kept saying things have felt like organs

because Godwin Baxter, Bella s father, is a surgeon.

There s a lot about brains

and a lot of kind of, you know, scientific elements.

And so she had a lot of that inspiration

from like bodily things, which to me was just so cool

and so interesting the way that she brought it to life.

Okay, oh, what was really fun about this dress

was there s these big pockets

that are just like these structured pockets.

It s Louis Vuitton dress.

So I just texted Nicola

and asked him if we could put popcorn in the pockets

because, well I don t know if it s his favorite food,

but there s always popcorn

around Lorne Michaels, like in his office,

everybody just takes handfuls of popcorn.

I thought it s a 50th anniversary.

Let s do a tribute to Lorne with popcorn.

First of all, rude,

because look at the ground,

I trailed popcorn everywhere I went and I know that s rude

and I don t think that it s not rude and I m sorry,

but at the same time, did a lot of people

eat popcorn outta my pockets, yes.

People were very excited

that there was just free popcorn.

Grace Coddington was the creative director for this shoot.

Amazing, so exciting to just get to work with Grace.

Jamie Hawkesworth was the photographer.

I almost cried when I found out he was the photographer

because he shoots exclusively on film,

usually medium format film.

And he develops and prints his own photography,

which is a huge passion of mine.

So I was so excited

and Jamie s very into you being kind of goofy

and you know, sort of acting

while you re being photographed.

So it was really a cool experience.

We were in the Pope s residence

before the Vatican in Avignon

and there was a tour group that was going through,

but they would sort of rope off like half of it

and I would sort of like walk by in a robe

and these Nikola created looks

and this is very funny and very cool.

And there s my Vogue cover.

All right, that was My Life In Looks.

Thank you so much for having me

and I hope you learned a lot today.

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I sure did.

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