[phone ringing]
- Hi Luca, it's Candice Swanepoel, how are you?
I am just authorizing the Vogue camera crew in my room.
Thank you, have a good day.
You can stay.
[upbeat music]
Hi Vogue, I'm Candice Swanepoel
and you guys are following me to the Etro show today.
We're in my hotel in Milan
and you can see I have an amazing view [laughs]
Let me get ready, dry my hair, brush my teeth,
order a coffee
'cause the cappuccinos are the best in Milan.
I wish I could stay in my pajamas all day long.
I usually get ready with music, it's a lot more fun.
[upbeat music]
Milan is
in the middle,
and so people are starting to get tired, and
by the time Paris hits, like people are over it
and don't wanna see more people
and be touched,
it's funny.
New York, everyone's got a good vibe
and they're ready for Fashion Week.
Okay, coffee time.
Let's see if he
understands me, I might have to test my bad Italian.
[phone ringing]
Things run at a different pace in Europe.
[speaking in Italian]
Think he got it.
So it's 11:30, I'm supposed to be leaving in 10 minutes
so let me get ready, get dressed and get going.
Catch the glow.
If you love fashion, truly it's like dressing a Barbie.
Like oh!
[speaking in Italian]
Cheers.
We have a pink outfit,
we have
badass
biker girl outfit.
I think this is my look for today.
Cute Chanel bag, Alaia top.
The feet suffer a lot during Fashion Week.
As long as I'm wearing jeans, I feel good.
Voila.
Look of the day.
Or look of the hour actually,
'cause I'm gonna change probably two times today.
- [Fan] Candice!
Oh my god.
- You're so beautiful.
- Thank you.
Let's get to Etro.
As a little girl, I wanted to be a ballet dancer.
When I was a bit older, around 15,
I was scouted at a flea market with my mom.
I mean I've been in the industry
for 15 years.
It's definitely funny now when I think about
how it used to be.
You know back in the day,
we definitely had a lot more privacy.
People couldn't go on Instagram and see what you're doing.
People had to talk about you.
You won over the client and the crew job by job.
It was word of mouth.
And I've been able to support my family
and travel to the most amazing places.
It's a crazy, crazy roller coaster for sure.
Growing up in South Africa
was definitely very different.
I grew up on a farm.
It was just very raw, very free.
I wish I could
give my kids the same,
that same farm life but I have a very different reality.
[laughs]
We are here.
[speaking in Italian]
There's a photo of me and Joan Smalls a while back
and
we're like, walking in crazy heels over the grates
and the comments were like, "How is it possible
"that they are walking" [laughs] "over that?"
Wow.
Look at this venue.
Isn't that incredible?
Get ready.
We're late.
Welcome to backstage.
What we do is rehearsals with the shoes
to make sure that we are comfortable.
I'm obsessed with these shoes, look at that.
Doutzen, you're opening.
- I am.
- Set the pace.
Hi, how are you?
- Very good.
- Good.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
[upbeat music]
So that was rehearsal.
So what I do before the show, before I walk out,
I get into the mood of the show and the vibe
and listen to the music and just enjoy the moment.
The music is pretty fast paced so,
ready to rock and roll.
So we come out of here.
Turn here.
Turn here
and here is the most important part
where they take a picture that goes on Vogue Runway
so give them a good face.
[cameras clicking]
- [Carlo] Immediately after the show,
we're gonna celebrate Grace.
She's engaged now.
[clapping and cheering]
- She just got engaged?
- Yes, a few days ago.
- What?
Cute.
- Thank you for coming.
- So I wanted to know
a little bit more about the inspiration.
It's very close to my original style,
I love the 70's.
- Yes, everyone loves the 70's.
- Right?
So when I was doing my fitting, this picture.
- Raquel Welch.
- And this one,
gave me a lot of inspiration. - But if you see, you see,
that's a paisley design.
At the end, paisley design comes from that era,
from that period, the summer of love.
The period of the, it was the maximum expression
of freedom, of really, self expression.
To really be what you wanted to be.
- Thank you so much.
- You were courageous, you know?
- Yes.
- And this thing is about courageous women
that go beyond what's
always the same.
- Tradition.
- Traditional.
- Thank you, what a beautiful show.
- Thank you Candice.
[relaxed beat]
- [Camera Person] Okay, go.
- So that's makeup done, I'm going into hair.
What do you think?
[FaceTime calling]
Wow, you have dinosaurs on your pajamas?
Show mommy [gasps]
Wow.
Mommy is in Milan.
Give mommy a kissy.
I love you, bye bye.
Such a crazy experience,
pregnancy and giving birth.
You don't really feel normal
until a year afterwards.
You really don't feel like it's your body.
The fact that we can create a human being
and do that,
it makes you proud no matter how your body looks
or how you feel like.
After my last show, or event, in Milan,
I fly back to New York for two days to be with them
so it's kind of like,
you know you sacrifice
that day of rest in between the shows to be with my kids.
Other people are like, "Yeah, I'm gonna go and have a rest
"when I get home."
But when I get home is like when the real work starts.
So this is my look, first look
and we're getting ready to go out on the runway.
I'll see you out there.
[cameras clicking]
[backstage chatter]
[upbeat music]
[cheering]
So that's a wrap for the Etro show.
Thank you for following me, Vogue.
I hope you enjoyed spending the day with me.
[chatter]
[upbeat orchestral music]