If there's one thing Zendaya knows better than anyone, it's how to make a fashion statement. Watch along as the 'Dune: Part Two' actress breaks down her most iconic looks on this episode of Fashion Flashback. From her early Disney days, where she turned to pieces in her everyday wardrobe for the red carpet to her getting a full cast of her body for a custom dress. Zendaya proves she is not afraid of taking risks when it comes to putting a look together.
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00:00 Hello Harper's Bazaar, I'm Zendaya,
00:01 and today I'm gonna be looking through
00:03 some of my fashion moments.
00:05 This is Fashion Flashback.
00:07 Let's just say this was an era, okay?
00:11 This photo is from 2012.
00:13 Me and Law technically still worked
00:15 with each other at this time,
00:16 but I didn't have the ability to work with him
00:19 for everything 'cause I was very expensive.
00:21 So a lot of the times I had to just kinda go
00:24 with whatever I had in my closet.
00:25 At this time, I don't think I was stepping out.
00:27 Like I wasn't like, ooh, I'm killing it with this.
00:29 I think it was like, child, I got a thing to do for this.
00:32 Shake it up, like let's just, what do we have?
00:34 What can we put together?
00:36 So I had this pair of sequined skinny jean.
00:39 Let me tell you how itchy they are.
00:40 Wouldn't recommend.
00:41 I guess I have like a little,
00:43 a tank top under there or something.
00:45 So I took the blazer from my Sweet 16 suit
00:48 and I just put it on this 'cause that's all I had.
00:50 I have a metal kind of necklace.
00:53 It's supposed to mimic what seems to be a collar of sorts,
00:56 made out of chain.
00:57 This is the part that really gets me,
00:59 is the hair.
01:00 I just wanna understand why I went bone straight
01:02 on the sides, everywhere else, bone straight.
01:05 And then I just wanted a swoop in the front.
01:08 Why would I do that?
01:09 Why would I just, I bust bone straight
01:11 but I want the front to go like this.
01:12 So now I have a mustache in the front of my head
01:15 and bone straight everywhere else.
01:18 It was like windy and flyaways.
01:20 They are sprayed so they're so crunchy.
01:23 They're so crunchy.
01:24 Everything is moving but the front is not moving.
01:27 [sighs]
01:29 You live and you learn.
01:30 It's the BT Awards.
01:32 At this point, I was at every event
01:35 that I was not nominated for.
01:37 I just was like, I'm going and I'm getting dressed up.
01:40 This was a Law creation.
01:42 It was a skirt with a bomber jacket
01:44 and it was built as a set.
01:45 Law had a very specific vision about what he wanted.
01:49 He's like, I wanna put a baseball cap with it.
01:51 That's kind of how I developed my fashion thing.
01:54 Kind of laying outside of, at the time,
01:56 it was Disney Channel.
01:57 I wanted to kind of figure out
01:58 how to be my own person outside of it.
02:00 And we did that by just going to everything
02:03 and we looked good.
02:04 This is, I believe, Ruben's Singer.
02:07 This one is from 2015.
02:09 It was a fashion show for charity.
02:12 Everybody had to wear a red dress
02:14 and this was my red dress.
02:16 I love it.
02:17 I have my Sokates as usual.
02:18 I think that has been Law and I's staple shoes
02:21 since the beginning.
02:21 Nothing like a pointy-toed pump.
02:23 Sokate, I got it in every color,
02:25 especially my white ones.
02:27 I wear them with everything.
02:28 And even then, that was our go-to shoe.
02:31 I think it looks fantastic on everybody.
02:33 I did a runway show in middle school.
02:36 I went to an art school and the fashion department
02:38 did a runway show and I was in that.
02:41 So it wasn't my first time on the runway.
02:43 All right, this next one actually is one of my favorites.
02:46 This was Greatest Showman premiere in Australia.
02:49 I just thought it was so cool.
02:51 I mean, I remember Law showing me the picture
02:53 and I remember trying it on for the first time.
02:55 It's Moschino.
02:56 I loved how literal it was.
02:58 I loved, like I literally was a butterfly
03:01 and just how structurally it held that wing
03:05 and the colors and everything.
03:08 I remember Law was like, "I really want yellow eyeshadow."
03:12 I think that was him who said that.
03:15 And I didn't have yellow eyeshadow
03:16 'cause I did my makeup for this press tour.
03:18 My assistant Darnell, who's also like my brother,
03:21 he had to like, bless him, run out
03:23 and like he bought like every yellow eyeshadow
03:25 he could find to complete the look, of course.
03:29 The only thing we changed about it was there,
03:30 I think there were antennas on the runway.
03:32 Like there were antennas on.
03:33 I was like, okay, maybe not that literal, right?
03:35 We could take the antennas off.
03:37 This suit, I love this suit.
03:39 It was a men's suit, but it fit me really well
03:42 and I felt very confident in it.
03:44 This is my hair, so I didn't really do anything.
03:47 I just kind of do what I usually do,
03:49 which I wake up, put some product in it,
03:51 scrunch it up and just flip it all to one side.
03:54 It gave me Julia Roberts vibes.
03:56 I know she wore like a suit to the Golden Globes once
03:58 and it reminded me of that in some ways,
04:01 but it was easy, it fit really well,
04:04 it was super comfortable.
04:05 I love this one, I still have this suit.
04:07 This was my first Emmys.
04:09 This is Vera Wang.
04:11 I remember seeing the sketches for it, I loved it.
04:13 And we had to pick a color.
04:16 And at the time, I was just obsessed with emerald green.
04:18 I had these emerald green chairs
04:20 in my living room I had just gotten.
04:21 I temporarily dyed my hair red
04:24 and I felt like I love that color combination.
04:28 And I've seen many prom dress recreation of this,
04:30 which is really cool.
04:32 Also fun fact, I almost missed the red carpet.
04:35 It was closed, do you remember that?
04:36 It was closed and they were like, you can't take pictures.
04:40 You can't, the red carpet is closed.
04:41 I said, oh, I'm taking pictures in this dress, all right?
04:45 I feel good, I feel confident, I got my red hair, okay.
04:49 I got a nice green dress
04:51 and I'm gonna get a picture in this outfit.
04:53 I kind of snuck onto this little side red carpet
04:57 that was kind of hidden.
04:59 And there was a couple of photographers that knew me
05:01 and I was like, just went over there
05:03 and I was like, got my picture.
05:05 And then I left, so my background looks different
05:07 from everyone else's 'cause I wasn't on the main red carpet.
05:10 I was on a side thing that I just was like,
05:13 I'm getting pictures, I'm getting this outfit,
05:15 I feel good, I feel good tonight.
05:17 This is the 2020 Critics' Choice Awards.
05:20 This is the infamous Tom Ford breastplate.
05:23 I have, I actually framed the breastplate
05:25 'cause I was just like, this is so cool.
05:27 They were originally like somebody else's boobs
05:29 and I put it on, it didn't quite fit me very well
05:33 and I asked if I could be scanned
05:35 to have my own custom breastplate
05:38 and they were able to do it, like digital scanning
05:41 and Tom Ford let me keep it.
05:44 Law had the vision for it,
05:46 he wanted to do box braids for this,
05:50 so I stayed up very late getting my hair done
05:53 and I had a good night.
05:54 I didn't win, but who cares?
05:56 This is the Venice Film Festival.
05:58 It's one of my favorites again.
05:59 I would say this kind of came about
06:02 because when this collection came out,
06:04 which this wasn't a dress,
06:05 it was like a corset or kind of thing,
06:08 but I saw it and I immediately,
06:10 mind you, Dune hadn't come out yet,
06:13 it wasn't even close to the time I said,
06:15 I wanna wear something like a version of this,
06:17 a dress version of this for Dune
06:19 and I texted to Law and he was like, let's do it,
06:21 let's make a custom, let's ask them if they'll do it.
06:24 They made a body cast, so a woman came to my house
06:27 and we went outside and she casted,
06:31 molded my body and that became the shell
06:35 and this is made of leather, but it kind of looks liquid,
06:38 but it's all solid, so it was really difficult
06:41 to sit in and to breathe in,
06:43 'cause it doesn't, you can't breathe, it's just hard.
06:46 So the whole movie, I'm like,
06:49 like just focusing on breathing the whole night.
06:54 So it was many years in the making
06:57 and I had planned it for a long time before I wore it,
07:01 so I was really excited to finally be able to wear it.
07:04 This necklace, Bulgari, massive, emerald,
07:07 terrified to wear it 'cause I was like,
07:09 it's just so big.
07:11 And another random observation, I just wanna add this,
07:13 everybody says I have babies trapped in my knees
07:16 and I see it, do you see the baby doll head
07:20 trapped in my knee?
07:21 They have said this so many times and I really do,
07:25 I really do have little babies in my knees.
07:28 It's so weird, like you see the eyes and the,
07:31 anyway, you'll never be able to unsee it.
07:34 Maybe I shouldn't have said that
07:35 'cause now it's gonna make it even worse,
07:36 more people are gonna be like,
07:37 she's got babies trapped in her knees.
07:39 Okay.
07:40 This is 2023, this is at the NAACP Image Awards
07:45 and in Prada, it was pants in the runway
07:48 and we did a version of that.
07:51 So I was supposed to wear this on the carpet
07:53 and wear the, I wore like a black and green
07:56 vintage Versace to the award show,
08:01 but in the van, something in my brain went,
08:04 I have to switch these because I'm very like,
08:08 I'm a Virgo, I think about everything that can go wrong
08:12 a million times before they happen
08:14 and I knew that this crinkling, okay,
08:18 was gonna drive me crazy and I was stent,
08:20 how am I gonna pose to where it doesn't crinkle like that?
08:24 And I thought it would be better in movement on a stage.
08:27 So I said, you know what, let's switch,
08:29 I'm already in this in the van and I said,
08:31 I tried to pose and I was like,
08:33 I'm not gonna like it, let's change it
08:34 and I changed back into the other one in the car
08:38 and then got out and did the carpet.
08:40 So I'm glad that I did because I think that
08:42 I wanted to do it justice and I think it wouldn't have
08:45 quite worked on the carpet the same way.
08:47 So I'm glad that I switched them.
08:49 That being said, trust your instincts.
08:51 If you feel in your gut, wait a minute,
08:54 I think I should switch this, do it,
08:55 'cause otherwise you're gonna drive yourself crazy.
08:57 Just like, why didn't I listen to myself?
08:59 Thank you so much for watching.
09:00 Dune is coming out soon, so we hope you all enjoy it
09:03 and I'll talk to you guys soon.
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