00:00Suddenly, I remembered, oh my goodness, my mom is in Malaysia, sitting there with 200 people?
00:06What if I lose?
00:09I think I'm never going back to Malaysia again.
00:11Hi Harper's Bazaar, I'm Michelle Yeoh, and today we're gonna look back at some of my fashion moments.
00:18This is Fashion Flashback.
00:22My goodness, wow.
00:23Yeah, I remember this.
00:25This is the Supercop 3 premiere in 1996.
00:29I believe this is a Moschino dress, and I still have it.
00:33I have it back home in Malaysia, actually, because I love to keep memories.
00:38And sometimes, whether it's a dress, a gadget, or something that I've used in a movie,
00:43and when I see it, I remember that day when I walked down the red carpet with Jackie Chan
00:47and my sparkly dress, I thought that would make me look very fun and cute.
00:52I wanted the Americans to meet Michelle Yeoh, a fun kid on the block.
00:58Next.
00:58Aha, the Oscars, 2001.
01:02This is a dress that Barney Chang, an amazing Hong Kong designer, inspired by Crouching Tiger,
01:08Hidden Dragon.
01:09So you can see the motives of the tiger.
01:13All of me.
01:14I remember when I first put it on, I thought, oh my god, this is heavy,
01:18because it was completely beaded and hand-sewn, all of those crystals.
01:24But, you know, you're like walking on air, because you're at the Oscars.
01:29We both wanted it to be inspired by something that is very Asian, very oriental,
01:35because that's where I'm from.
01:36And we're very proud of our silhouette.
01:40I think he did an amazing job of it being very elegant,
01:43sophisticated, and at the same time, highlighted our culture.
01:48All right, this is the Crazy Rich Asians premiere in 2018.
01:53This is a beautiful, stunning dress from Armani Preview.
01:56I remember holding up the dress and going like,
01:59nobody can fit into that, because it's just so tiny.
02:02And lo and behold, I did.
02:04I just love the way they have the colors.
02:07And it was for Crazy Rich Asians.
02:09It needed something very glamorous, so we decked out.
02:12The hair, now when I look back at it, I'm going,
02:14maybe that's not one of my favorite looks.
02:16But, you know, at that time, it did say crazy, right?
02:19So I thought, okay, fine, let's do something a little bit crazy.
02:22And it happened to the hair.
02:23What's your favorite memory with the cast from this night?
02:28Trying not to get too drunk.
02:31It was already wonderful working with this cast,
02:33because they are all young and energetic and funny and fun.
02:37And I was so thrilled to be part of it.
02:40This is me at the Oscars in 2019.
02:44Oh, Elisa.
02:46Actually, I had a little mishap,
02:48because I had chosen a dress that had a slit right in front of the leg.
02:53But 10 days before the Oscars, I had a bad accident,
02:57and I had cut my leg very badly.
03:00So that dress, sorry.
03:03Next.
03:03And thank God Elisa was quick to find me a dress that covered a horrible scar.
03:09I love his creations.
03:11They're always so glamorous and so feminine at the same time.
03:15He's very into very intricate embroidery embellishments.
03:18And I think it went really perfectly with my Roger Vivier clutch bag
03:23and also my Richard Mille watch.
03:25Watches are one of my favorite things.
03:27I've been a collector of watches for a very long time.
03:30I think it started because my grandfather left a watch to my dad,
03:36and somehow it got into my custody.
03:40And it sort of always started from there.
03:42Whereby now, often, I would have a watch that reminds me,
03:47oh, I did Memoirs of a Geisha watch or a piece of jewelry.
03:51Watches are a big thing of mine.
03:53And thank God I'm a Richard Mille ambassador.
03:55That helps.
03:56Wait till you see the Oscar watch.
03:58Okay, so this is 2022 at the Met Gala in New York.
04:04An anthology of fashion designed by the amazing Prabal.
04:09I wanted green.
04:10I don't know why.
04:10I told him I wanted a green dress, and I left him to be creative.
04:16I said, I have pretty broad shoulders, so you could highlight on that.
04:20And this was what he came up with.
04:21The long train is something that's very striking.
04:25I thought it was pretty spectacular.
04:27And also that necklace that went with it is all, you know,
04:30put together by Prabal and his friends.
04:33I don't wear red lips very often,
04:35but then it was the whole look where it was a very straight hair,
04:39center parting, clean makeup.
04:42And because the color was green, we didn't want it to be washed out.
04:47If you had like a pale lipstick on, you could get lost behind that.
04:51So that red lipstick was a rare occasion then, but I did it.
04:56Okay, this is me at the BAFTA Awards in 2023.
05:00And I'm wearing a Dior tuxedo cape.
05:03At that time, I had a lot of fun working together with Dior.
05:08I love this look.
05:09I thought it was so cool, so chic, and it was just perfect for the BAFTAs.
05:12Sometimes when you wear a tuxedo and all that, it's smart and cool.
05:16I love the earrings that went with it.
05:18Mosaic, they have the most amazing, very striking gems.
05:23It's the length of it.
05:24Because my hair was straight, this one needed something that had that sway to it.
05:29This outfit actually caused quite a stir because my mom saw it.
05:33She left me a message.
05:35She said, when you go to the Oscars, don't wear trousers.
05:39She said, it makes you look short.
05:42Make sure you wear a long dress.
05:44Thank you, mom.
05:47And this is the 2023 SAG Awards.
05:50Oh my god, I am in the most amazing Schiaparelli dress.
05:56It's beautiful.
05:57I mean, it's all that sequence, little thousands of sequence running up and down.
06:01And it was so funny because afterwards, I think there was a meme of someone
06:05making that dress out of French fry.
06:09I love it.
06:10You see, dresses, fashion, it inspires people to think very creatively.
06:14And I love that look.
06:16It was a whole string of sequence and all sewn together, all bunched up together,
06:21which created this wavy effect.
06:23It was beautiful.
06:24And it was light.
06:25It was so easy to wear.
06:27What inspired this look?
06:28It's always the dress.
06:30Because the dress is the thing that propels everything forward.
06:33It's like, for this dress, no necklace, right?
06:36Striking earrings.
06:37Amazing watch.
06:40And simple hair.
06:42SAG, where I won.
06:44The SAG, yay!
06:45I had no clue what was going on.
06:46I was like, first of all, to even win was already such an incredible moment, you know?
06:53Because it's your peers.
06:54It's your people telling you, well done, girl.
06:57I was so shocked.
06:58I didn't even know how to go on stage.
07:00Well, this is the 2023 Oscars where I made history.
07:09The journey of choosing the dress.
07:13Oh my god.
07:15That was tough.
07:16That was tough than making the movie, okay?
07:19You're blessed because you have so many great, amazing choices, Ben.
07:23It came to a point where, how do you choose the right dress?
07:26At the end of the day, I said to my people, back off, guys.
07:29Just back off.
07:31Just give me a moment because I will know the dress when I see it.
07:35It's like, suddenly you have a treasure trove of gems, you know?
07:39Like diamonds, sapphires, and emeralds, and rubies, and dah, dah, dah.
07:43Which is the best?
07:44And I remember the first time when I saw this dress and I felt, this is what I want to feel like.
07:50Because I am walking on cloud nine and that dress looks like a cloud.
07:55And so when I put it on, I went, I think I found you.
07:59I was terrified, to be honest, that night.
08:03It was an amazing night, you know?
08:05Fortunately, my husband, at that time, he wasn't my husband yet.
08:09John was with me.
08:10He was making me more nervous than I actually was.
08:13He kept saying to me, so who can tell me who won?
08:16And I was like, nobody knows.
08:18The envelope is, no, he said, no, no, no, no, no.
08:20Somebody knows.
08:21I'm like, oh god.
08:22And then, of course, as the night went on, it was just such a momentum.
08:26Everyone was going up on stage and obviously, best actress is second to last.
08:31So you're sitting there going like, I don't know what's going to happen.
08:34And suddenly, I remembered, oh my goodness, my mom is in Malaysia,
08:38sitting there with 200 people?
08:41What if I lose?
08:43I think I'm never going back to Malaysia again.
08:47I still am trying to remember that moment.
08:50It's just like, because it's so overwhelming at that point.
08:53I don't know what I was thinking.
08:54And next thing I knew was, we were hugging, we were hugging,
08:57and Jamie was like, go on stage, go on stage, go get your Oscar.
09:01It was a very special night.
09:05I think it's still hitting me all the time.
09:07I think it hits me every single time when someone says, you made history.
09:11The look of joy and pride people have for me.
09:17The wicked premiere in Los Angeles, thanks to Balenciaga.
09:22I had my niece, Vicky, who was my dress lifter.
09:27She had to follow behind me.
09:29Every time I had to walk forward, she would have to lift this train up
09:34because it's all heavily beaded with the Swarovski crystals.
09:38So it was really, really heavy.
09:40She had a great workout, so what can I say?
09:42But the most amazing thing was the blonde wig.
09:44I thought it was just so striking because this dress was like the Wicked Witch dress.
09:49The shimmer and the holes.
09:51But the hair was something that I had not done before on a red carpet.
09:56And I think the best expressions that evening was Cynthia and Ariana.
10:00They went like, it's Michelle.
10:02Oh my god, she's blonde.
10:05And that's fun, you know?
10:07This is the 2025 Golden Globes where I was presenting with Jeff Goldblum.
10:12And this dress I chose because I loved that neckline.
10:19It's a Balenciaga look.
10:21My favorite part about this dress truly is the collar
10:25because I've never worn a collar that goes all the way up to the face.
10:28And then climbing the right earrings for that was a challenge
10:32because it couldn't get entangled with the collar.
10:35Having that hair just made it very easy because, you know,
10:38there was already so much drama going on.
10:40And, you know, I am the Wicked Witch.
10:43And this had a spell, had a certain allure about it.
10:46We have a beautiful film.
10:48So when we won, it was hell yes.
10:51So much love and energy has been poured into it.
10:54And the talent that you can see, thank you.
10:58Thank you for recognizing that.
11:00Well, thank you for watching.
11:01I had so much fun doing this.
11:03And don't forget to watch Star Trek Section 31 on Paramount+.
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