- Hi, Vogue.
I'm Liv Tyler.
- Hi Vogue, I'm Stella McCartney.
- And together we are
Rock royalty!
[upbeat music]
[camera clicking]
- [Liv] I've never used this thing before.
I bought a tripod and a fucking light.
Propped upon a Lego Titanic.
There's the light.
- Oh, mine's propped up on about five blankets.
Literally.
I miss you.
Can we wrap this up so you and I
can have a drink on Zoom?
Let's us have a drink now.
- [Liv] We've been friends for a very,
very long time.
- We must have met a good 20,
a good 20 years ago.
You think?
- I think so.
I think I was, I don't remember exactly,
18 or 19 or something.
I was looking it up.
"Armageddon" had come out the year before,
and then I'd made a couple movies in London,
which is probably where we met.
- [Stella] And it was, we didn't stop,
the minute we met...
I mean the thing about Liv and I is,
we grew up with very, very similar backgrounds,
and then we tried to go out and carve our own careers.
We didn't have to work through much
to understand each other.
It was pretty--
- Yeah, there was like an instant understanding.
What I think we both always really crave
a real connection, 'cause in our experience
as children growing up, there was like
a lot of B.S. around us,
or people wanting to be around you for your parents,
and when we would be together,
we felt very grounded.
- [Stella] We definitely never took anything too seriously
that didn't need to be taken seriously.
I'd never been to a Met,
and Liv had never been.
I didn't know anything about the Met.
I didn't know what it was,
I didn't know who was going, what people did.
I got to New York a couple of days before the Met.
And I knew, I was like,
"Liv, do you want to come with me?"
'Cause I just wanted to go with a girlfriend.
- She literally called me and said,
"Will you come"--
I don't even know if she said "to this fashion event".
She just said, "Will you come to this event with me
at the museum?"
- So it was like a night out for us.
We were like, oh my God, this is a curious adventure.
- And I'm super shy! But I was like,
"Okay, great!"
And she didn't really explain very much,
other than she was having t-shirts made for us.
I don't even think she said
what they were going to say on them.
- [Stella] I remember going to Filth Mart
down in Little Italy in the morning of the Met.
He just had, like, vintage t-shirts on the walls.
- Amazing collection.
- And I, at that time, all I wore
was my kind of uniform.
The white 3-in-a-pack Hanes vests.
And that was like what I wore
every day, day in and day out.
So I had a pack of them when I was in New York,
and I remember going down
and taking it to him and saying,
"Look, can you cut it off, can you make it
one shoulder, can you embroider it,
and then just like put 'Rock Royalty' on?"
And I sat and I designed it with him.
There were black ribbons
that were just embroidered on top.
So appliquéd on top, and studded.
I don't remember any of it being planned out.
And I didn't know the theme.
Did you know the theme?
Like, I must have found out that theme
the night before.
I don't know, I think it was just another
of my many genius moments.
And I remember going back and getting them.
I don't even remember when we put them on, like--
- You brought it over
and I'd never tried it on before.
I really just remember that she brought
this white t-shirt, and it was quite short.
And it was one-sided.
And the only thing that I had
that made me feel comfortable,
'cause it was like, covered up,
was this very long, very '90s
black Comme des Garçons skirt.
And I was like, freaking out about my boobs,
how I was gonna fit a bra [laughing],
what I was gonna do--
- You shouldn't wear a bra!
- And what I was gonna wear with it.
'Cause you already had your cool Chloe trousers
that you had designed.
And so it was tricky to put something with it.
I remember it so well.
And I felt really embarrassed,
because I thought, well, like,
"You're rock royalty."
I'm rock something, but I don't think "royalty" is the word.
And so I felt a little--
- No, I think what it is, babe,
I think the two of us together
took us up to rock royalty.
Alone, we couldn't have claimed it.
We had to be together to make it.
I remember coming over to pick you up
and you were having your hair and makeup finished,
and I was like--
I never, I had never had my hair and makeup done
for an event before.
And I just couldn't--
I was like, oh my God,
Liv, you're getting your hair and makeup done.
And I remember going into like a panic,
'cause I'd literally just gone [spits]
like all over my face. [laughs]
- [Liv] I don't remember having my hair and makeup done,
but she says that--
I remember doing it myself.
And I have really strong pink blush cheeks on.
It looks like I have no makeup on.
And these, like, beaded earrings,
I didn't really have any jewelry.
I was just a teenager.
- Can I leave for a minute to look at this rainbow?
Just talk amongst yourselves.
Can you edit this out?
[bossa nova music]
Oh my crikey!
Oh my God.
It's the most beautiful--
Honest to God, I can't focus.
I remember coming to pick you up.
And now, we have, like, your publicist,
you know, cars outside,
like I don't--
I think I just, like, jumped in a Yellow Cab.
I remember us going in, and we were like,
"What the fuck's going on?"
Like we got there and there was a staircase
and all these pressmen were like--
I don't remember getting up the stairs.
[crowd noises]
- [Liv] We were, at the time, quite frowned upon
and judged by people for our look.
Everyone was staring at us, like "Oh my God."
- And everyone was like--
I think they must've seen us coming up those stairs
in our t-shirt, and just been like--
I remember us sitting at our table,
we were like literally, we were like, gobsmacked
by the people all around us.
You and I were like, we were like--
- The thing that was weird about it was,
because it wasn't really appropriate
that we wore those shirts, officially,
we were not following the honors of the dress code,
I guess, in some way.
So that was very cool and rebellious of Stella,
and she was-- it was a really, like, amazing thing
in a way, but we were just being ourselves,
and we were being young--
- It wasn't intentional.
I didn't come at it intentionally to be rebellious at all.
I didn't know what people wore,
and I was like "This'll be fun."
I remember the thing that we really didn't expect,
and even at that time
I didn't really know what it was either,
but I remember the next day we were on the cover of WWD.
That, we didn't expect.
We were like, "Oh my God, people took notice of us."
- The Met was so different back then.
I googled today "1999",
'cause I was just trying to remember
what was going on in our lives at that time,
and it was really interesting to see
what everyone was wearing.
'Cause no one was that dressed up.
There was a picture of Charlize Theron
and Gwyneth, and everyone.
It was a very different--
To what being dressed up is now,
there was no comparison.
- In this day and age, people would really plan it,
overthink it, really do it intentionally
to get attention in the media,
and like-- and we really didn't,
and that's what's so lovely about it.
That's adorable, that that is a real moment
in the Met, kind of, making.
I feel kind of weirdly proud, Liv. [laughs]
- You should be proud.
And it's just one of those things
when all the stars align,
like it was our first time, we didn't overthink it.
We had a great time,
we have some crazy memories,
and...
It just was, like, a beautiful--
- I also think, I'm really happy
that it was a standout moment for you guys.
'Cause it was for us.
And so thank you for making us remember it.
I have mine!
Have you still got yours, Liv?
- Yeah. Yup.
- Oooh, cute!
We should so get them together.
We have to do a photo of us in them.
That would be so cute.
And then we should do little baby ones
for all our kids.
All right, guys, thanks for watching us just babble on.
I apologize if it was a little murky,
but it was a long time ago,
but thank you for having us.
- Bye, Vogue!
Thank you so much.
- Bye, guys! Thank you so much.
Liv, I'm gonna FaceTime you.