Emma Stone and Nicolas Ghesquière’s Real-Life Friendship Takes Center Stage in Vogue’s September Issue

Vogue

Director: Nikki PetersenInterviewer: Chioma NnadiDirectors of Photography: Louise Bernard Pallas, Fyras SlaimanEditors: Katie Wolford, Evan AllanCreative Producer: Gabrielle ReichAssociate Producer: Lea DonenbergAssociate Producers, On Set: Megan Sinanis, Virginie KateebGaffer: Sylvain GabayetAudio: David Amsalem AlbertiniProduction Coordinator: Tanía JonesProduction Manager: Kristen HelmickLine Producer: Natasha Soto-AlborsAssistant Editor: Andy MorellPost Production Coordinator: Holly FrewColorist: Oliver EidSupervising Editor: Kameron KeyPost Production Supervisor: Alexa DeutschEntertainment Director: Sergio KletnoyExecutive Producer: Rahel GebreyesSenior Director, Video: Romy van den BroekeSenior Director, Programming: Linda GittlesonVP, Video Programming: Thespena GuatieriImage Courtesy Of: Joan Marcus, Irving PennCover Photography By: Jamie Hawkesworth

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00:00We are here today for a very incredible project

00:03and a story of love and friendship and creativity

00:07and it is for the September issue of Vogue.

00:11Beautiful, wow. Perfect, perfect, perfect.

00:13It's a small collection that Nicolas Gasquet designed.

00:18Whatever he does is special and surprising and exquisite

00:22but this was somewhat on another level

00:25because it was couture

00:26which is something he hasn't tried before

00:30and we're photographing Emma Stern.

00:33Beautiful, keep that smile Emma.

00:48I started to work when I was very young

00:52at Jean-Paul Gaultier.

00:53It was ready to wear.

00:54And one day I remember hearing him in the studio saying

00:58his desire was to do couture

01:00and I didn't get it at the time.

01:03I was 18.

01:04For me ready to wear was a cool platform to express clothes

01:08but later I'd understood.

01:12His expectation for details and colors and fabrics and shapes

01:16was growing and going somewhere more exceptional.

01:22Nikola Gasquet, he's a very close friend for a start

01:32and probably he's the designer that I'm closest to

01:38and have been for several years

01:40as I've followed his career.

01:42I feel he really advances fashion in a way that other people like follow

01:49and to me he pushes fashion forward very much in whatever he does.

01:56Well, I think it's the incredible workmanship overall, you know, that is always so beautiful to see

02:05and happen so rarely in these days.

02:09He was working with us at Vogue to create these looks

02:13but it was entirely from his head.

02:17Him and a dream, really.

02:21For me, couture represents something more like a longer vision.

02:26It represents the exception.

02:28It represents the dream.

02:30It represents also a very French and Parisian way of doing things

02:35that involve incredible talents and incredible ateliers that are only here.

02:41It's important for me as a French designer to celebrate that.

02:51This whole story is that he wanted to do six different looks,

02:56six different characters that Emma could get into and portray for us.

03:01Who will this be?

03:03Well, this one is based on ballet.

03:05The idea was to imagine that she was a charismatic leader

03:09of a ballet academy or something like that, you know.

03:13She is a great dancer

03:14and I wanted to express that in the movement overall.

03:18So it is completely based on one of the most iconic leather in the house,

03:25the EP leather.

03:27Extremely fluid, extremely shiny, I would say.

03:31Really specific and very special.

03:35This character, for me, is very powerful.

03:38Emma is breaking boundaries and I think she does

03:42with the artistic choices she's making.

03:44And so I always have this image of her, you know,

03:49lady in the driving seat and a car racer or a pilot

03:52who is very inspiring to me.

03:53I really wanted to express this side that I think Emma has this extreme sensibility,

04:01this extreme femininity.

04:03There is a certain innocence somehow when she approached a character

04:07and in Poor Things, you saw that.

04:09I think that's why she was so extraordinary playing this character

04:13that was so innocent at the beginning

04:15and then transformed this innocence into a wonderful strength and power.

04:23This one is also interesting.

04:25I imagine Emma being the host of an imaginary cabaret

04:29that would be, you know, extraordinary.

04:32It's attached to the story of my friendship with Emma.

04:35Emma, she performed on Broadway, it was in 2014, in Cabaret.

04:45It's a cape and a dress.

04:47It is a very different silhouette

04:49than the rest of the small collection.

04:53The idea of taking a blanket

04:55and folding it in many different ways

04:58to create clothes has been a great inspiration.

05:01This look is the story of the importance of nature.

05:09I love the idea of nature overtaking the city.

05:13If you travel and you see a city like Rio, for example,

05:17or Los Angeles that I love so much,

05:19there's a duality in that look.

05:21I ask to use a beautiful triple organza

05:25that is usually for dresses,

05:27but by contradiction,

05:29I ask them to do something

05:31that is more built and architectural.

05:37And I was absolutely impressed

05:40by the beautiful way they achieve it.

05:54One second, one more.

05:56Beautiful.

05:57It's been such an incredibly fun day.

06:02Obviously, the clothes are so beautiful

06:04and every piece is so unique

06:06and not comparable to the next one,

06:09so it feels completely different in each look.

06:11And then we have an amazing photographer

06:13and he's so free and it's been a dream.

06:17Beautiful.

06:18Very nice.

06:19I think the way Jamie shot her

06:23and the way she moves,

06:24it's beautiful to watch that happening.

06:26I guess we really get into characters very much.

06:29The wonderful thing about working with Emma

06:31is that she's an actress, she's not a model

06:34and she's not afraid to really laugh

06:38or put a lot of expression.

06:42The things that he's designed

06:45took me through my wedding day,

06:47took me through big moments in my life.

06:50It kind of feels like I always get to have a piece of him

06:52with me as well.

06:52I think that's like the gift of great clothing

06:55and a person who has real empathy behind it

06:57because it's with you for the most important moments

07:00and he has been.

07:01I think it's important to say that there's a discipline in what we do.

07:11There's an artistic side that is very, of course, important.

07:16But there's a lot of discipline too.

07:18You have to be very serious about what you do

07:21but very light about how you think about it.

07:26It's kind of also helping me.

07:28Sometimes when you have doubt

07:30and it's normal to have doubt,

07:32we all do,

07:33but when you do a creative work,

07:36you have to doubt all the time.

07:38What do you hope people will think or feel

07:43when they see this September cover?

07:49Joy.

07:59Another hug.

08:00Oh, no, we said no more hugs.

08:00Oh, my God, we said no more hugs.

08:01For years.

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