- Hi, I'm Charlize Theron
and we're going through my style evolution.
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Oh, that's my mom. She looks cute.
I don't really remember this.
I guess it was just a premiere that I went to
and it looks like Dolce & Gabbana.
I look like I'm having an awesome time with my mom, though,
So, it's not a bad look actually.
The pants still feel very nineties, feels a little timeless.
So yeah, I'm not too embarrassed about that one.
Oh, I remember this. This is Missoni.
I wore this to the Tom Hanks film,
"That Thing You Do!"
Back then, I didn't have a lot of options.
not a lot of designers sent me stuff,
so I think this was the only thing
that my publicist at the time got.
It was a sixties film and it felt kind of retro.
That was such a flashback of a memory.
I got to be in a Tom Hanks movie.
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Yeah, this is Hervé Léger.
This is the "Devil's Advocate" premiere,
which, I guess I probably thought
red would be a good color
to wear the premier of the "Devil's Advocate,"
but I liked that dress. I thought it was really nice.
I had never worn a Hervé Léger dress before,
so that was my, I popped my cherry on that one.
That was my first Hervé.
There was like, a period where that's all everybody wore.
So I was catching up to that.
Oh, it was a great evening.
This film with Al Pacino and my good pal Keanu Reeves,
and it was really kind of like my first film of that caliber
and I was so excited and my mom was there
and this was kind of a moment in my life where I felt like,
well, maybe I don't have to get a second job.
So that's pretty good. I definitely celebrated that.
I was very chuffed with myself that night.
I don't remember a lot about this dress.
I don't even know, what is that, the SAG?
I don't remember that.
I think it's a dress that's just so nineties,
even though it's two thousands.
Yeah, but it's just,
it feels like a dress very reminiscent of the nineties,
which is kind of great,
because that's what it was with the choker collar,
and I don't think it's something that I would wear now,
but it's definitely of that time,
and I feel like that's just kind of
what everybody was wearing at that time.
Oh, this was, Vera Wang made me this dress for the Oscars.
It was my first time going to the Oscars.
I had a film that was nominated, "The Cider House Rules."
That was really special.
I think that was also the first time
somebody made a dress for me.
My friend Cindy Evans styled it
and Vera was just so incredible.
You know, I wasn't really a big name at that time
and so for her to spend as much time and energy as she did
in making that for me was really, really, really special.
The back of that dress was rouged in the butt
and when I sat down in the theater,
because it's such a light chiffon,
the rouging in the butt split open,
and when I stood up for the first like, standing ovation,
I felt this kind of cool breeze coming up my tush,
and I realized my whole butt was hanging out,
and then I went to the bathroom and I panicked.
I didn't know what to do,
and I remember Julianne Moore was on all fours in her gown,
like searching for a safety pin on the floor,
and she found one,
and I saved the dress with the safety pin in it.
I sent it off on the dry cleaners and like,
"Do you want us to fix this?"
and I was like, "Don't touch it."
I want it to say exactly the way Julianne Moore fixed it.
So I still have the dress with the safety pin in it.
Thank you, Julianne.
Oh my God. Yeah, this is like,
I think definitely Dolce & Gabbana.
I like this dress just because the film was kind of like,
sitting on the porch in a rocking chair,
drinking a mint julep like, kind of like that,
just southern flowy elegance.
The film was from, I think, the twenties and the thirties
and so the dress just kind of like,
felt like it had like a tiny pang of that going on for it,
but I just remember kind of like going to the premiere
and still finding myself kind of flabbergasted
that I was directed in a film by Robert Redford.
So that was pretty amazing.
Oh, this was really special.
Cindy Evans styled this and she was kind of very involved
in kind of creating this concept with Gucci,
everybody at Gucci,
and, oh, this was obviously the year
that I was nominated as an actress and I won,
and so I mean, you know, I could have worn a potato sack
and I would've been pretty chuffed with myself,
but I felt really pretty in this and kind of ethereal,
which I guess was so kind of the opposite
of what the film was, and playing Aileen Wuornos.
The only thing I remember about this is
everybody talked about my fake tan
and it was actually a real tan.
I went to Brazil right before the Oscars.
It was a real tan, folks.
I have an Oscar to show for it, so watch out people.
Oh, I love this.
This was a dress that John Galliano designed for me at Dior
and this was also the year that I started working with Dior
and so this was kind of our first collaboration together.
He was just such a lovely collaborator,
like just really wanted to know what color I was into,
and I love this dress.
I love this dress. I never fit it.
He took my measurements, made the dress,
and I literally, I think I was on a film,
I came back and put the dress on
and it would fit me like a glove
and I don't think I would wear anything like that today,
but I just love, I love in that time in my life,
like I think it's a really pretty dress.
And I won this night too, by the way.
I won a Golden Globe
and Jack Nicholson gave me my Golden Globe.
That was so cool.
I love in all these photos there's,
my mom's like in the back.
(Charlize laughs)
That's so cute.
Oh, this is John Galliano again for Dior.
I remember I went out to go and visit John in Paris
and we had done a lot of ethereal,
kind of like classic things,
and we was like, very mischievous
in wanting to kind of like do something that was naughty,
and so I thought for the way we were both kind of just,
talking about being a little bit more mischievous
with this look,
but of course still chic and classic,
like I thought it came out brilliant for that.
I know a lot of people didn't like the dress,
but I really love this dress,
cause it's just, it's just a little naughty,
you know, just a tiny bit naughty.
I think it's great when you wear things that, you know,
not everybody might like. That's okay,
but it never changed how I felt about that dress.
I was never like the next morning,
when everyone was like putting me on the worst dressed list
going like, God, I wish I didn't wear this dress.
I look at it now and I go,
I think it's a great part of my repertoire.
Oh, this is a really cool dress, again Dior.
It's hard to see in this photo,
but the fabric was actually rubber
and it had all these tiny, tiny little slices in it,
which was kind of like a way for us to, I guess,
lean into the fact that it was a Mad Max movie
and to have it have an element that, you know,
felt kind of like, raw.
It's so hard when you dress for these movies
because there's a part of you that
still wants to kind of celebrate
what the movie is in a weird way, or go against it,
but it felt like a nice dress to wear
after I was in the desert
for what felt like 400 years,
to celebrate a movie that was really hard to make.
I really love this outfit
because I never thought
I would ever wear anything like this.
This is not kind of my thing.
Like I'm not a big, you know, torso shower,
but there was something
really strong about this that I loved
and there was kind of like an ownership
and body image that Atomic Blonde
was kind of celebrating as a film
and it was so physical, the movie,
and so the idea of wearing something
that was kind of in your face
and feeling empowered, I don't think,
if it wasn't that movie,
I don't think I would've ever worn it,
but it felt really right for that moment.
Universal got us a DJ.
We, just up in the bar and we danced until the sun came up
and I literally went from the dance party to the airport
and I was still wearing that bra when I flew back,
under a sweater.
But that's the story of that outfit.
Fast and Furious.
Yeah. So this was just,
I think just from the store, so it felt right.
I mean, come on, It's a big, fluffy jacket.
Feels kind of perfect for a fast and furious movie,
but I don't, there was nothing, we didn't,
and nothing about this was made or anything like that.
We just, this was kind of like in store at the time
and Leslie Fremar styled it and picked it for me,
and I don't have the jacket anymore unfortunately,
(Charlize laughs)
but I think I have the t-shirt.
Thank you so much for listening to me go down memory lane
with my wardrobe and please watch out for my new film,
"The School of Good and Evil."
It's coming out September 30th.
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