- Hi Vogue, Shania Twain here,
and today I'm going to be looking through
so many of my iconic images over the years.
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I'm expecting to be surprised,
because I've probably forgotten about some of them.
Okay wow, this may have been the
first time I was on Jay Leno.
I'm a little surprised that I did wear this on
national television, but it was all about comfort,
and so these are my personal jeans
and my personal vest and my personal tank top
that I cropped myself with the scissors
and just like, tucked it under.
You know, I had really tiny hips and big, athletic legs,
so it was hard to fit jeans.
So this was one pair that fit me comfortably,
and it was like my go to pair.
Ah, well a big award night.
I do remember winning Favorite New Country Artist AMA night,
I was surprised and, pleasantly surprised,
and very giddy about it.
Stretch patent pleather, so that's really key.
I think it's very flattering for a curvy body,
and in the video [If You're Not In It For Love]
I'm Outta Here, I did back flips in these exact pants.
Okay, awesomeness, awesome leopard print.
I love this jacket, in fact I don't know where this jacket
is anymore, I'd like to find it.
I was getting into the velvet fabrics and the plushes,
and leopard print was just beginning for me.
So this is cool.
I love this!
Why Now?
I'm loving the plush stretch velvets,
it's leopard print, surprise [laughs].
And I just love the arms,
the arm band thing, this was my idea.
I look so happy in this photo too, I'm a happy girl here.
Whoa!
1998 Jingle Ball, wow,
that's a big audience, that's massive.
I'm in faux stretch pleather
and stretch velvet leopard print.
I love it!
Well for better or for worse,
I really latched onto the leopard print
and it was just a favorite,
so I always gravitated toward that.
Oh!
Okay, 1998 Diva's Live,
I will tell you a story about this.
So I'm very self conscious at this point about my legs.
It was an open slit right up almost to the hip
and I just couldn't wear it like that,
I was too self conscious.
So I tacked the slit open and I think
it looks kinda good, looks deliberate.
I do tend to take things into my own hands,
make sure I'm comfortable.
So when I work with designers they have to be open to that.
What fantastic memories.
I'm sandwiched between Carol King and Celine Dion,
first of all, Mariah Carey was there,
Gloria Estefan was there, and Aretha, of course,
in the center of it all.
All of these women, my heroes.
I just can't believe that I'm up here with all these women.
Just a real honor.
I wish I could revisit that same night over again,
it didn't last long enough.
Oh yes, this does take me back, 1998.
I would have been really, seriously overworked at this point
[laughs]
that's what I was probably thinking,
I'm thinking "This is so wonderful,
"but I don't think I'm gonna be able
"to stay for the after party".
The sheer veil drape at the back, high neck,
it is just a very similar dress to the one that I wore
in the From This Moment On video.
I think it might be the dress,
and that song surprisingly became a huge wedding song,
it wasn't, I didn't know at this point
that it was going to be.
Great association by fluke, great body at this point.
[laughs]
Ah, yes of course we are now,
we're back to leopard print, stretch, plush.
This is from That Don't Impress Me Much video,
and it's the first time that I'm into the hooded thing.
This was Marc Bouwer's idea, very glamorous.
I knew when I saw it, I'm like, "Are you kidding?
"I mean, this is gorgeous", it's just a very iconic look.
Oh and I camped out the night before in the desert,
on the location, because the drive was so long
the next morning, I just said,
"I'm gonna be too tired, I'm just gonna camp out",
and I wanna talk about the luggage because this prop,
this suitcase, all right so here I am,
I'm looking for the perfect guy,
and he's just not coming along,
no matter how amazing and impressive he is,
it's just, he's not the guy.
There was nothing in the luggage
and it's very ironic, in fact,
because I think I had everything I needed right there.
- [Camera Man] You had a lot of leopard.
- A lot of leopard.
Okay, oh yeah, Iowa Grammy's,
that's always a great night, right?
That's always a wonderful moment.
Very much in the Audrey Hepburn thing.
This is where I really start getting, I guess,
excited about being shiny and glitzy.
Country music artists when I was a kid
were always like, really glitzy and shiny,
and I thought, "Well, you know I wanna be more sober
"than that in my style" but oh no,
once I got into sequins that was it, I've never turned back.
Now I've got an archive room that I keep most
of my awards in, but my son convinced me to put one up
where we could all see it, he's proud of it.
Whoa!
Cool, all right, boy do I have stories about
Man! I Feel Like A Woman outfit.
This is when I performed at the Grammy Awards.
I decided that I would take the exact video costume, outfit,
and wear it live on the stage.
The boots were killing me, they were so tight on my calves
that the circulation was cutting off in my legs.
But I had so much fun performing in this,
this is the good example of if you're dressed
for the occasion you're more in the spirit of it,
you know, and when you put a robe on you wanna
make a cup of tea or have a glass of wine,
and when you put on bustier and matching short skirt
and thigh high boots, you wanna rock out to
Man! I Feel Like A Woman.
Okay, 1999 Country Music Awards.
So, Come On Over, I'm in what was later written as
Pepto Bismol pink, and I'm like, "Yeah, so?
"What's wrong with that pink?
"It's a great pink".
I think it's more like a melon pink, myself personally.
And I went for the whole country vibe.
I love this look and I was comfortable,
I had a great performance.
Whoo, lady in action, here, 2003 Superbowl,
very, very big moment for me.
This was an epic experience,
and it was another take on Man! I Feel Like A Woman look.
It was more of an edgy rock performance look.
Well the album Up!, I was in more of a playful period.
You know, I was approaching 40,
and I wanted to be sure that I didn't get mumsy
after having a baby.
- [Camera Man] This is definitely not a mumsy look.
- [laughs] no!
No I think it wasn't that I was trying to make a statement
about it, but it was more for myself.
It was more that yeah, I feel good in my own skin,
and free spirited about my body,
and about stepping out with confidence.
Oh yes,
I loved this night.
I hosted the Juno Awards.
I think this was one of my favorite nights
of costume wearing.
I didn't just wear the Canadian teams, did I?
I have to reflect on that.
Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, Montreal, Quebec,
yeah maybe, I think it was all Canadian teams.
Where are these outfits?
I'm starting to stress, looking through this,
looking back at all these incredible looks,
and I don't know where half of them are
or I'm, you know, I want them back.
To be honest, I didn't realize the value in the moment
of these looks and that they would still,
you know, that they would still matter, 20, 25 years later.
Marc Bouwer made all the costumes.
Yeah, I don't know where they are.
I wonder if he's got a secret stash.
Now he's got a trunk somewhere of Shania things.
Up! World tour.
I bounced around and had a really great time,
up and down stairs and jumping,
and feeling very young and energetic.
Because I was doing a lot of outdoor shows,
when it was hot and humid I was dying in anything
that was clinging without breathing.
So I got into this sweat guard fabric
and was loving it, so that was a real awakening for me.
So this is where the athletic wear direction came into play.
Whoo, hot mama!
This is 2012, Las Vegas show.
[laughs] I love this, okay,
I love a great body suit, first of all.
I'm Gonna Getcha Good!, the video was a lace,
a black lace bodysuit, stretch lace bodysuit.
I wanted to reflect the video
not really Cat Woman, but Cat Woman, come Bat Woman esque,
you know, super hero, dark and sexy, strong,
with the Vegas glam, so hence all the bead work.
Okay wow, [laughs] back in leopard, surprise again.
This is 2017 on the James Corden Show.
I'm feeling very celebratory during this phase,
and very fitting to be back in leopard print.
And I even love the fact that this is a pantsuit
because there is a strength to that
that I really enjoyed wearing for some reason.
It was something about the pantsuit.
It was stretch, of course, stretch fabric.
So yeah, I'm back with Now and still in leopard print,
and just feeling like I'm taking ownership
of a lot of things and the print represents,
quite poetically, where I was, making that album,
and resonates through the fashion too, not just the music.
Very interesting.
Whoo!
Okay, 2017, no, 2019 AMA's.
This is like, so recent,
and I am loud and confident, and bright.
I loved this moment, I wanted to shine.
I wanted it to be sexy but strong.
I love the contrast of the orange and the pink,
I had given Marc the direction,
he sent me this fabulous pink fabric that I'm like,
"Yes, of course, that's it".
I wanted to reference strength, femininity,
sensuality, and inclusion.
So all the fashion in this performance, I think,
was definitely a reference of all of that.
And I had a lot of fun in this look.
Vogue, thank you so much for taking me back,
this has been awesome, see you next time.
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