Zoe Saldaña, fresh off her Golden Globes win, revisits her best style moments in the latest installment of Fashion Flashback. Here, the 'Emilia Perez' star talks styling herself in Prada for her very first red carpet at the 'Center Stage' premiere, working with Anthony Vaccarello on her dream custom Saint Laurent dress, and learning to embrace color, with the help of her Mom.
Check out Zoe Saldaña's Harper's Bazaar cover story here: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a63360950/zoe-saldana-emilia-perez-interview-2025/
Filmed at El Encanto, A Belmond Hotel in Santa Barbara.
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Check out Zoe Saldaña's Harper's Bazaar cover story here: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a63360950/zoe-saldana-emilia-perez-interview-2025/
Filmed at El Encanto, A Belmond Hotel in Santa Barbara.
#ZoeSaldana #EmiliaPerez #FashionFlashback #BAZAAR
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00:00I mean, I'm wearing Ariana and Cynthia all in one.
00:04I'm giving a shout-out.
00:05I'm holding space for Ariana and Cynthia.
00:08Hey, Harper's Bazaar.
00:10This is Zoe Saldana,
00:12and today we're looking back at some of my fashion moments.
00:15This is Fashion Flashback.
00:19This was the center stage premiere,
00:22and I'm wearing Prada.
00:23The stylist was moi, and it was my birthday.
00:27And I remember this because my sisters gave me a cell phone,
00:31and I never used it.
00:33I didn't know how to use it.
00:34It was an Okia thing, and I never knew how to use it.
00:37Such an important moment.
00:38This was my very first time wearing Prada,
00:40my very first time going to a premiere,
00:42my very first time being in a film
00:45and premiering it in New York.
00:47Everything about it was just how we say in dance,
00:51kiss night.
00:52Wow, this was the world premiere of Avatar in London.
00:58I was wearing Roland Marais.
01:00At a glance, you would think that it's a fabric
01:02that isn't flexible,
01:03and yet if you cut it in the right places
01:06and you create the seams in the right areas,
01:09it moves with you.
01:10So Roland has a clear understanding
01:12on where to create the cuts and where to create the seams.
01:16I've never really met a designer like that.
01:20It was just really interesting as it was coming together,
01:22and I enjoyed every process of watching Roland
01:25and discussed with my stylist, with Petra,
01:28on how they were gonna build it around me,
01:30and I just felt really beautiful when I wore it.
01:33Oh my gosh, this is for the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony,
01:38and I was wearing Givenchy.
01:40I feel like I had a relationship,
01:42a very intimate, personal relationship with this dress.
01:44Petra knew from the moment she saw it in the runway
01:48that this was the dress
01:50that I needed to wear for the Oscars.
01:52I remember we were in the middle
01:54of this worldwide press junket,
01:56and Petra found a way,
01:58along with the Givenchy team at the time,
02:01to bring the dress wherever I was.
02:03There was a moment where I was in Paris,
02:04and the dress was in Paris,
02:06and we tried the dress in Paris,
02:07and we had one of its first fittings,
02:09and then the dress was in New York,
02:11and I remember just looking at my grandma and Petra
02:14as they were inspecting every part of that dress,
02:19and Petra was looking at my grandma and going,
02:21do you like it?
02:22Because we all knew
02:23that she was such an exceptional seamstress,
02:25and she was looking at the seams
02:26and looking at every part of the dress,
02:29and she would go, it's really good.
02:32It's really good.
02:33By the time I got to wear it that day,
02:36I just remember feeling beautiful,
02:38and the colors about this dress,
02:41it was just so avatar.
02:44Ooh, okay, 2018.
02:48This is a Givenchy look.
02:50As a New Yorker, it spoke to me,
02:52and it made me feel so beautiful in the simplicity of it,
02:57and I remember telling Mara, who does my hair,
03:01Mara Roszak, and Vera Steinberg, who's done my makeup,
03:04telling them I want the little as possible
03:08on my hair and makeup.
03:09I just wanna be me,
03:10and I remember feeling my most beautiful
03:13and my most authentic self,
03:15and that was the beginning of a breakthrough in my life
03:18where it's 2018, I'm a mom of three boys,
03:22I am owning the time and the space that I'm in,
03:27and I'm having a clearer picture
03:31of who I wanna be at all times.
03:34I really felt confident and very beautiful.
03:38Oh my God.
03:39This is the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony,
03:42and I'm wearing Miu Miu.
03:44Petra was definitely wanting to channel old Hollywood.
03:48I was too busy having an out-of-body experience
03:50to make decisions for myself,
03:52and she definitely took the wheel on this,
03:54and so did Vera and Mara, and I was very happy,
03:58because I was just trying to write my speech
04:01and make sure that I didn't leave anybody out.
04:04I think this was around the time
04:05where I started to also just ask for comfortable shoes.
04:09In the early 2000s,
04:13I remember Petra and I walking down the cobbled streets
04:16of London and Paris in these Louboutins
04:19that were four inches high, five inches high,
04:23and I remember thinking, oh my God, I am unstoppable.
04:26I will never die, and then four years later,
04:29married with three boys,
04:32just looking at certain shoes that looked painful
04:35would make me shed tears.
04:37We do extensive research on what are comfortable heels.
04:41For instance, these are still high, coño.
04:47This is the 2019 Met Gala, and I'm wearing Michael Kors.
04:51He's such a delicious New Yorker, oh my God.
04:55So I says to ha, I says to ha.
04:57I just love the way he talks,
04:59and he tells the best stories, by the way,
05:01and I like when he and Petra sort of pick these outfits
05:05for me whenever I do wear Michael Kors,
05:09because I tend to have a lot of fun.
05:11Lately, in the last years of my life,
05:12I've been really experimenting with colors like brown tones,
05:16honey, amber, cinnamon, cimarron.
05:20I like these colors.
05:21They really speak to me, and I like being adventurous
05:24within these colors, like adding purple tones.
05:27I'm not afraid of color.
05:28You know, my mom is right.
05:29Colors are beautiful, because I was always like
05:31black and white, black and white, black and white,
05:33and a ton of red, and my mom, who's such a Caribbean woman,
05:36she's always like, well, orange and coral and yellow,
05:41and aquamarine, and in my younger years,
05:43I was always like, oh, shush, woman.
05:46I will never wear such insanely loud colors,
05:50and now I am all about colors, too, so thank you, Mom.
05:56I fucking do believe I was embodying camp.
05:59This was disco camp, okay?
06:02This look is a Schiaparelli look
06:04for the premiere of Avatar in Los Angeles
06:06for the Way of Water.
06:07I think this is the first time
06:09that I wore Schiaparelli to a red carpet.
06:12I don't wear hair pieces that often.
06:16I tend to be a little more natural,
06:17but now that I'm getting older,
06:19I'm just a lot more open to experimentation,
06:23and Mara brought this piece
06:25that was kind of like a little bang piece,
06:27and it was very Audrey Hepburn-esque of her,
06:30and I loved it, so this really dictated
06:33then what we were gonna do with the makeup,
06:35then Vera felt inspired to kind of keep it super simple
06:38with the eyes and just do these lips that were great,
06:41but it all started with this dress.
06:43There's just something really simple
06:44and very complex about this dress,
06:47and also very elegant,
06:49and something that's very young about this dress,
06:53I have to say.
06:54It felt comfortable.
06:55It was very structured, but also very loose.
06:57I loved it.
06:59Oh, my God.
07:00Okay, so this was for the premiere
07:03of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in Paris.
07:07I'm wearing Armani Privé here.
07:10I was shooting Emilia Perez post-Oscars 2023
07:15for Avatar, Way of Water,
07:17and then I jumped straight into
07:19Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Press
07:21while shooting Emilia Perez.
07:24I'd never felt more fortunate,
07:28just grateful to know that as an artist,
07:31I was working and celebrating my work at the same time,
07:35and still taking chances,
07:38because Emilia Perez was a chance.
07:40This dress was just so beautiful,
07:42and it reminded me of the Arlequines,
07:47you know, those porcelain clowns
07:49that your grandmother,
07:50everybody's grandmother used to have in their home.
07:52I remember I did break one of these Arlequine clowns,
07:56and she was so upset with me,
07:58so getting to wear this dress
08:00felt like I was redeeming myself.
08:03I've always been a sucker for pastel pink
08:06and a green put together.
08:08It's just beautiful.
08:09They're just romantic.
08:10I mean, I'm wearing Ariana and Cynthia all in one.
08:15I'm giving a shout-out.
08:16I'm holding space for Ariana and Cynthia.
08:21I won my very first Golden Globe in this dress,
08:25and I'm very proud of this design,
08:27because I felt like I was a part
08:28of choosing what I wanted to wear.
08:31Petra found this beautiful look
08:34from an old collection of Anthony's,
08:36and they together chose the fabric
08:39and the look and the style of it,
08:42and then we put together the hair and the makeup.
08:45Everything about this look was me,
08:49a much more hyped version of me in my dreams,
08:52but it was still me.
08:55And then the cape,
08:56there was a cape that Petra insisted on the look having,
09:00and it was sort of like an ode
09:01to the 80s Yves Saint Laurent,
09:04and Anthony really was super stoked about doing that.
09:08And there was something about putting that cape
09:09over my arms and working it in the red carpet
09:14that just made the look almost surreal,
09:18for me, at least.
09:19I felt great.
09:20You dream of these moments for so long.
09:24You just don't like to admit it,
09:25because you don't like to be that vulnerable,
09:27but I think that every artist,
09:28every actor dreams of that moment,
09:30and then all of a sudden, that moment comes true.
09:33I'm just grateful that the dress was comfortable.
09:36I could've been naked.
09:37I wasn't even in the room.
09:41Thank you guys for just spending this time with me.
09:45Check out my cover for Harper's Bazaar.
09:47Ah!