Angelina Jolie has been through some stunning changes, both physically and fashionably — yet the living legend always stays true to who she is, and that's why her fans just can't get enough of the A-lister.
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00:00Angelina Jolie has been through some stunning changes, both physically and fashionably.
00:05Yet, the living legend always stays true to who she is, and that's why her fans just can't
00:09get enough of the A-lister.
00:12Angelina Jolie — or rather, Angelina Jolie Voight — was born on June 4, 1975, in Los
00:17Angeles, California, to actors Jon Voight and Marshallene Bertrand.
00:20With two parents who were in show business, Jolie was introduced to the entertainment
00:24industry at a young age.
00:25In fact, in 1986, Jolie accompanied her father to the Academy Awards.
00:30While looking back at the future star's young style, Closer Weekly noted,
00:33Angelina looked so stunning as she attended the 1986 Oscars alongside her family as just
00:38a preteen.
00:39The brunette beauty looked super cute as she wore a white lace ensemble.
00:43While that might make it seem like Jolie was wearing a sweet and simple outfit, even then
00:47she was showing signs of her super stylish ways.
00:49That's because she opted for a dress that boasted full sleeves and a somewhat oversized
00:53collar, as well as a long string of pearls.
00:55Now, is this your first Academy Award?
00:58Yeah.
00:59I'd like to say hello.
01:00That's a gorgeous dress.
01:03Since Jolie's parents were both actors, it's likely not surprising to find out that even
01:07when she was younger, she had her own performing aspirations.
01:10The then-teenage star-in-the-making honed her acting skills while studying at the Lee
01:14Strasberg Theater Institute before attending New York University.
01:18Jolie opened up to Harper's Bazaar about both her life and style at the time, saying,
01:22At school, I wasn't that popular person.
01:24I loved leather, PVC, and fishnets.
01:27Those were my three favorite fabrics in my early 20s.
01:29I was a punk."
01:31She went on to recall her first experience wearing PVC pants, saying,
01:34"...I was waiting for an audition, sitting in the sun in L.A. By the time it was my turn,
01:39my pants had fused together.
01:40I didn't get the part.
01:41But I loved those pants."
01:42Jolie continued by noting that she wore something similar when she married Johnny Lee Miller.
01:47Speaking of her aesthetic while married to her Hackers co-star...
01:50While Angelina Jolie scored various relatively minor roles during the early 90s, many fans
01:55first fell in love with her when she popped up to play Kate Libby, a cyber-savvy and style-savvy
02:00NYC high school student, in 1995's Hackers, which she starred in alongside Johnny Lee
02:04Miller.
02:05In fact, the movie made her an accidental style icon, according to Garage.
02:09Costume designer Roger K. Burton opted to outfit Jolie in what he described as an androgynous
02:14tomboy, kinda tough but chic style, combining a slew of different fashions like vintage
02:18fencing outfits, Quicksilver surf tops, 1970s racing jackets, and old Vivienne Westwood
02:23pieces.
02:24Her now-iconic pixie cut rounded out the beloved, badass character.
02:28Soon after, Jolie won a Golden Globe for Best Actress after starring in the 1998 television
02:32film Gia, in which she portrayed supermodel Gia Marie Karangi.
02:36For the film, the actor traded in her cyberpunk style for a mix of super glam and leather.
02:40In 1999, Jolie co-starred in Girl, Interrupted, playing the unpredictable Lisa, which saw
02:45her earn an Oscar.
02:46In similarly unpredictable fashion, she showed up to the ceremony looking like a stunning
02:50Morticia Adams, but the changes didn't stop there.
02:54While Jolie's style has always included a range of hairstyles and outfits, she's also
02:58used tattoos to define herself.
03:00Along with getting body art that represents relationships, such as her former marriage
03:04to Brad Pitt and her connection to her children, Jolie has chosen designs that are meaningful
03:08in other ways.
03:09The star told Harper's Bazaar,
03:10"...I have a tattoo, a prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
03:14I got it when I was 20."
03:15Saying that she was with her late mother at the time, Jolie said that she had felt lost
03:19and restless, and admitted that she still was.
03:21She recalled,
03:22"...we were driving to dinner, and she talked about spending time with Tennessee Williams
03:26and how much she loved his words.
03:27She told me he wrote that, about the wild at heart."
03:30After that, the pair visited a tattoo parlor where Jolie got the ink immortalized on her
03:34arm.
03:35Although that may have been a spontaneous decision, Jolie explained,
03:37"...what she did for me that night was to remind me that the wild within me is alright, and
03:42a part of me."
03:43"...I think it's also very important to have a little madness, have a little wild."
03:48Jolie had to, understandably, make some minor adjustments to her style while pregnant.
03:52And considering the fact that her aesthetic choices in the past have sometimes been a
03:56bit eccentric, it might not surprise you to find out that her decisions when it came to
04:00maternity fashion have been interesting to say the least.
04:03Whatever you think of what Jolie opted to wear while carrying three out of her six children,
04:06each outfit was certainly noteworthy.
04:08For instance, there was the Rheem Acra Empire Waist Maxi Dress that she showed up for in
04:13the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards in Washington, D.C., back in 2008.
04:17And then there was the green Max Azria gown that she wore to the premiere of Kung Fu Panda
04:21at Cannes that same year.
04:22Frankly, Page Six Style deemed the latter dress to be one of the best celebrity maternity
04:26style moments of all time.
04:28Jolie certainly created just as much buzz with her pregnancy outfits as she has with
04:32all of her other style choices, but she wasn't done transforming her style.
04:37Jolie's career hasn't slowed down as she's gotten older, and neither have the changes
04:40in both her personal life or her style.
04:43While moving on to roles like 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith, 2007's A Mighty Heart, and 2014's Maleficent,
04:49the actor has settled into a classic movie star aesthetic.
04:52Gone are the days of wild outfits and edgy hairstyles.
04:55Instead, Jolie has embraced calm coiffures and gorgeous gowns.
04:59Even when she's dressing on the casual side, she opts for a much more toned-down version
05:02of what she once wore.
05:04Beyond that, Jolie acknowledges what she's been through both on the inside and outside.
05:08She told Harper's Bazaar in 2019,
05:10"...my body has been through a lot over the past decade, particularly the past four years,
05:14and I have both the visible and invisible scars to show for it.
05:17The invisible ones are harder to wrestle with."
05:19Adding that life takes many turns, you can certainly see that's true when you take a
05:23look at Jolie over the years.