- This is my favorite part of the night, really.
It's the moment you...
it's the moment you get to look
pensively into your own eyes in the mirror
as you put on your earrings,
just like in the movies.
You just,
you just stick that thing through,
and think of all you've lost, all you've won.
I can't find the hole.
[dance music plays]
Oh hi, I didn't see you there.
I was checking my Instagram messages.
My name is Hari Nef, and I'm here at the Beekman Hotel
getting ready for the Vogue magazine
CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund Dinner.
And I'm ready to rock.
Let's do this.
[laughs]
[dance music plays]
So I'm here with an actual Vogue editor, Alexandra Gurvich,
and we're gonna figure out what I'm wearing tonight.
Please help me.
- Yes.
So we have a bunch of great options
from previous Fashion Fund designers.
- Amazing.
- Here are a few options from Brock Collection.
They're beautiful, very Vogue.
- Yes, and Laura's so nice.
- So nice.
- She's always so nice to me.
- Then we have some Proenza pieces.
- Ugh, always so good.
- Yeah, the pleating is amazing.
- Are the boys gonna be here tonight?
- I believe so.
- Yes!
- Yeah.
- Okay, friends.
- It's always a Vogue celebration.
Yeah, and then this amazing Vaquera number.
- Oh yes!
You know Patrick from Vaquera and I were interns together?
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Where did you intern together?
- Vfiles.
- Oh my God.
- I remember Vaquera when Patrick was learning how to like,
cut, like learning how to make patterns.
- That would be really full circle if this ends up working.
Then this insanely amazing...
Because it is cold in New York,
so you might need some coverage.
- It is cold in New York, I miss it.
You know that meme where it's like,
"can't wait 'til it's fall
"so I could really start dressing."
It's like you can't really ever...
- Yeah.
- Start dressing in L.A.
- Should we try some options on?
- Yeah, let's do it.
[uptempo beat plays]
- Hello.
It's very Margo in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood,
or like her goth cousin.
It's kind of like perverted dead babydoll yellow.
I like it.
So this is option three, it's the Proenza.
It's really fun to do this in.
And I don't know, Alex said this is what
the Vogue girls wear.
It's kind of like a Vogue girl vibe.
So, it's definitely a clique I'm trying to infiltrate.
This is the Brock with the Brother Vellies boots.
I'm comfortable in any heel.
I've never fallen and I never will.
I feel like the silhouette of the Brock
is saying like, I'm nice.
But the color is saying, I'm mean.
So I feel mean, and I feel nice at the same time.
Things might get chaotic tonight.
I think this is it, we just need jewelry.
- So I was thinking these really beautiful earrings
to complement the black on the dress.
- Cute.
- And then, I wanted to layer some things.
I really love this with pattern.
I think it will complement
the brown in the boots really well.
And then maybe, because these are two different lengths,
we could do this black rose gold.
And then, loving the bracelets also with the black.
And then maybe some Pave.
- Perfect.
- Nice to add some diamonds.
Little Pave ring.
- Yeah, I wish you could be here
every time I did the jewelry.
Like whenever I see women who wear like,
rings and necklaces and it's like,
when it's all thrown together,
I wonder how they do it.
[uptempo beat plays]
Things are all squared away with the look.
And now we are getting into hair and makeup and nails.
I always think it ends up looking the best
when I kind of, just kind of hand it over to the artists.
What were you feeling?
- [Makeup Artist] We could do a shape
that like, brings the eyes up.
And maybe a soft lip.
Maybe add a little cranberry tone like to the lid,
a little metallic.
- Like kind of snatched.
- [Makeup Artist] Snatched, exactly.
- Cool.
Blake, what are you thinking?
- I think we should do like, 90s Liv Tyler.
Like, fairy hair.
- You're just saying the words I wanna hear.
[chuckles]
The words that I repeat to myself when I look in the mirror
before leaving the house every day.
[dance music plays]
When I go to events, I try not to psych myself up
and you know get, I'm putting on a dress
and I'm gonna be in front of people
and I'm gonna have my photo taken.
Like I try actually not to even go to anything
that I am not personally invested in going into.
I'm not just saying this because I'm in a Vogue video.
I have friends who have been through this process,
like the support of Vogue and the Fashion Fund
as an institution.
Like, even if like, you don't win the Fund
or don't win the prize or whatever,
it just continues.
Whether it's like coverage on the website,
or aspects of the mentorship, I think it's cool.
New York Fashion in specific is where I came out of
and went everywhere else from.
2012, 2013, those were my like, intern days.
I was backstage tying Converse at Telfar in 2012 or 13.
And now he's like a Fashion Fund winner.
I feel like I've been a part of what's happened
in New York in fashion over the past 15 years.
Not 15 years, like 10 years.
How old am I?
[laughs]
8 years, 8 years!
Oh my God no, I got -
Ah, ah, I got
[laughs]
I got nail polish on my hair.
I'm sorry, I like just -
- I think you're okay.
- Maybe it just like bounced?
- I think you hit the clip.
I think you hit the plastic clip.
- [Hari] All right, as long as you say I'm good.
- [Blake] You're good.
- Oh yeah.
There's like a lot of exciting new talent tonight.
I'm kind of excited to see who wins.
Yeah, it's gonna be glam.
And we all get to eat chicken pot pie.
What's better than that?
So we're finishing up hair and makeup.
Final touch ups,
just carving the face out a little bit more.
Final fluffs.
Blake, he's a fluffer, Blake.
After that, we're gonna get into the final look.
Everything you've been waiting for.
[silently screams]
[laughs]
- [Makeup Artist] It all leads up to now.
- It, it, it all leads up to this, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm doing the finishing touches of Tiffany jewels.
A little bit of a cuff moment.
We're double cuffing tonight.
It's cuffing season, ladies.
[snorts]
Ring season, maybe forthcoming.
Victory is mine.
Let's go.
Secure the bag, as the girls say on Twitter.
And the coat.
Ta-da.
Yup.
The spoils of all our toils...
[laughs]
is me right now in this outfit.
I'm feeling pretty good about it.
I have to go.
[slow dance song plays]
I didn't put fragrance on, oh well.
Thank you.
So we're in the car, we're on our way to the dinner.
I actually had a lot of fun getting ready.
It's the journey, not the destination, you know?
As far as I'm concerned,
I'm going to a very prestigious barbecue
where a very lucky designer is going to get awarded
a very prestigious rack of ribs
by Anna Wintour.
It's a barbecue.
It's what I have to tell myself in order to stay cool.
In reality, it's a big night.
[laughs]
[cameras flashing]
Well I'm literally shocked that paparazzi took photos of me.
They usually just look the other way.
So my ego is boosted.
That happens about twice a year.
I had a really great time with you tonight.
I'm ready to rock and roll.
Signing off and...
Stay cool.
[laughs]
[slow dance song plays]