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Elle Fanning revisits her red carpet history, looking back on everything from childhood premieres to her latest fashion moments as an award-nominated actor. From Met Gala looks to standout designer collaborations, Elle shares which outfits she’d wear again, which surprised her, and the stories behind some of her most iconic style eras.
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00:00I look like a very chic Oreo, I think.
00:03Hi, Who, What, Where?
00:05I'm Elle Fanning, and this is Would You Wear It Now?
00:12We are starting out strong here.
00:15This is me.
00:17When I was very young, I was probably five or six in this photo.
00:23I remember this well, actually.
00:25I remember these clogs and wearing these clogs a lot.
00:28This poncho is very chic.
00:31I mean, this is quite a choice.
00:32This is at the Sinbad premiere.
00:34This is so funny because, like, in the early 2000s,
00:37there used to be all these, like, kids premieres,
00:39and, like, kids would go and walk the red carpet for these kids' movies.
00:42And my sister and I talk about this all the time,
00:45how those premieres were some of the most fun times in our life.
00:49Like, they were so extravagant.
00:50Like, the after party, it was out of control.
00:53There was, like, petting zoos.
00:54Like, they really went all out on these kids' premieres.
00:56So, yeah, it looks like I'm having a good time.
00:59I don't know if I would wear this exact outfit now,
01:01but I do not regret it.
01:04Oh, all right.
01:04We're growing up.
01:05We're growing up.
01:06This is really special, actually.
01:08This was at the Venice Film Festival for somewhere.
01:11And I was probably, like, 11 or 12.
01:14And this was a Marc Jacobs dress that Sophia actually helped me pick out.
01:19We picked it out together because she, obviously, is extremely close to Marc.
01:24I also felt very kind of grown up because I had my hair in this ponytail.
01:29Like, I was like, I want to wear my hair back.
01:31And that festival was special.
01:33It was my first time in Venice, first time there.
01:35So, this was just a very exciting night.
01:38And I would definitely wear this now.
01:40I think this looks pretty chic.
01:42Ooh, this is a good one.
01:45This is my first Met Ball.
01:47I picked this outfit out specifically because I thought it was something that Alexa Chung would wear.
01:53And I wanted her to notice my outfit and compliment me on it.
01:58And my dreams came true because I was on the red carpet.
02:00And then she was standing behind me and, like, kind of tapped me on my shoulder and was like,
02:04I really like your outfit.
02:05So, I manifested that.
02:07And it happened.
02:08I would totally wear this again.
02:11Ooh, okay.
02:12God, these are, like, blasts from the past.
02:14I haven't seen these in a very long time.
02:16Okay.
02:18This was a hot ticket to get.
02:20My sister was in this film, so I was the coolest girl at my school.
02:23And I got to go to the Twilight Eclipse premiere and bring some of my friends.
02:29I was so excited for this premiere.
02:32I got this at the mall.
02:33There's no designer happening here.
02:35Doc Martens were really cool in middle school.
02:38And these were heeled ones, which I had never seen to wear, like, heeled Doc Martens.
02:43And I took the shoelaces out and put a satin ribbon in, which I think looks pretty good.
02:50Ooh, this is good.
02:52This is really special.
02:53This was a custom Gucci look that Alessandra Michel did for me.
02:57And this was the second Maleficent premiere.
03:01I loved the little nod to Sleeping Beauty and Aurora.
03:04And I asked if they could add little drops of blood from, you know, my finger prick.
03:10And that was incorporated on the glove.
03:13Our version of Aurora in Maleficent was very, you know, like, of the earth.
03:17She was, like, queen of the moors.
03:19And I felt so confident in this dress.
03:22Ooh, okay.
03:24Now, this might be one of my favorite looks I've ever worn, I have to say.
03:29This was Dior.
03:31And this was when I was on the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
03:36And this was for the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood premiere.
03:39I had this idea with Samantha McMillan, who's my stylist, who has been my stylist since I was 13 years
03:44old.
03:45We worked with Dior, and they came up with this fabulous creation.
03:49It's just iconic.
03:51I remember also, like, getting to wear the hat on the Cannes carpet.
03:55It felt very, like, powerful and different.
03:58And old Hollywood glamour is really one of my favorites ever.
04:01It's hard to beat.
04:02Oh, oh, this is fun.
04:04This is another Met Ball.
04:05Very fun.
04:06Okay, this is a Met Ball.
04:08The theme was camp, if you haven't guessed.
04:10This was a custom Mew Mew look.
04:13And I kind of feel like I'm, like, I dream of Jeannie vibes.
04:17My mom has all these plastic charms, necklace charms from the 80s.
04:22She, like, kind of collects them.
04:23And so I remember, like, I would look through them all the time as a young girl.
04:27And so I had the idea.
04:28I was, like, maybe we should, like, blow these up on a large scale.
04:32Like, can we make a charm necklace that's huge?
04:35And Mew Mew, Mrs. Prada, they worked their magic.
04:37And this necklace was insane.
04:39The detail that went into it.
04:41Camp is one of the charms.
04:42The Met's on there.
04:43I'm on there.
04:44They made, like, a large scale cameo of my face.
04:48And this was just a really fun night.
04:51I really loved everyone's looks from this night.
04:53Okay, this was last year for the Golden Globes.
04:57And this was when I was there for A Complete Unknown.
05:00And my sister was nominated for Ripley that year, which she was so incredible in her show.
05:05And we got to go together.
05:07And I do also spy our grandmother in the back.
05:10She was our date.
05:11That was just so special to have her there and share that night with her.
05:15And I think our looks really look good.
05:17I mean, they're different styles, but they complement each other.
05:19We worked off kind of a vintage Balmain dress that has this cheetah print.
05:25It was quite a big skirt, though.
05:26Hard to fit in a chair.
05:27But sometimes you have to sacrifice for fashion.
05:30Oh, God, another Met Ball, another Met Ball.
05:33And this is Balmain again.
05:34This dress was quite amazing.
05:37This was resin that was manipulated and sculpted and then dried.
05:42It was completely hard.
05:44We wanted to make it look like glass.
05:46And the theme that year was Sleeping Beauty.
05:48There was a poem about, like, a glass statue in the garden.
05:51And so to have the birds, I also think, since I am Sleeping Beauty, I guess,
05:56to make it look like the birds were dressing me in this glass sculpture.
06:01I did have to change, though.
06:02I was allowed to change when I went inside because I couldn't sit.
06:06So I did have to stand up in one of the Sprinter vans to get there.
06:09But it was extremely worth it.
06:12Very special.
06:14Oh, this is Cannes.
06:16Cannes again.
06:17Cannes is one of my happiest places and a place where I really love to experiment with my fashion.
06:22This was an extremely special trip because we got to premiere our film, Sentimental Value, that Joachim Trier directed.
06:30Samantha, my stylist, her son, who is 12 years old, Dylan, he has a t-shirt club.
06:36And he makes and he draws on these t-shirts.
06:38And he's a fantastic artist.
06:40And I asked her, I was like, you know what?
06:42I think it would be cool if Dylan wrote this Joachim Trier Summer because Charlie XCX at her Coachella set
06:50had done this cool thing of artists that she loves and, like, flashed it up.
06:54And Joachim Trier was one of those people.
06:57And we're like, oh, my God, Joachim Trier Summer?
06:59That's so cool.
06:59So we let Dylan, you know, draw it on there in that same font.
07:03And Charlie approves.
07:05She DM'd me.
07:06And she really liked this.
07:09Oh, this was recently.
07:10This is at the Badlands premiere in London.
07:16And this was a custom Coach look that Stuart made for me with that iconic Coach leather and that jacket.
07:23God, it was a good jacket.
07:25And we added little pins that I bought off eBay.
07:29So Arnold Schwarzenegger's on there and different predators from the franchise over the years.
07:33It was the first time that I had actually seen the movie in its entirety.
07:37I played two characters in the film, but Thea and Tessa, they're Weyland-Yutani synths.
07:43And pretty much the whole time, I wear, like, a white leather jacket.
07:47So I think this is Thea and Tessa approved.
07:50I hope.
07:51Last one.
07:53This was at the Academy Gala.
07:56And I really love this look.
07:59It was just so unique.
08:00This was Pierre Palo's debut collection for Balenciaga.
08:04These colors together are so magical to me and kind of different for me, you know?
08:09I felt so comfortable in this.
08:11And I felt so unique.
08:12And it really looked good from all angles.
08:14Like, the back had this beautiful kind of train.
08:17And it was perfect all night.
08:19Yeah, my sister was with me there, too.
08:20So we got to go as each other students.
08:23Oh, picking my favorite?
08:25What the heck?
08:26That's hard.
08:27I mean, they're all so special to me in so many different ways.
08:29But I think I have to go with...
08:32I think I got to go with the Dior.
08:35I do.
08:35I think I have to go with the Dior because it was just such...
08:40It was so impactful at that time.
08:42And I just love it.
08:44So, yeah.
08:45I'm going to go with the Dior.
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