Julia Louis-Dreyfus Explains 9 Looks From Seinfeld to Veep | Life in Looks | Vogue

hello poke Oh God Oh just FYI I don't really like looking at old pictures of myself so I may not be super well suited for this exercise I'm afraid we did have a lot of influence on Elaine's outfit I mean we had a costume designer for sure but I mean for instance that's the typical floral pattern with the socks and the shoes I just thought that at the time I thought there is nothing groovier than this look she definitely dictated her own style and I think she was not somebody who dress super sexy that wasn't her her vibe man she was kind of didn't need to do that she was a little tougher and frankly I was pregnant twice during Seinfeld so all of these oversized clothing this clothing was very helpful to me as a pregnant person both getting more and more pregnant and then becoming less and less pregnant after giving birth you know because it takes a little time to get your body shape back well this image is a what unfortunate image this is back from I am Seinfeld days and this is early on you'll notice Jerry's bright white sneakers but this jacket that I'm wearing is a suede Ralph Lauren jacket that was actually mine that I incorporated into the elaine wardrobe I still have this because I actually think it's groovy as all hell when when Seinfeld first started I mean that was the look it was it was sort of vintage a lot of the jackets that I wore with those skirts those floral skirts those jackets were vintage jackets from the 40s and and 50s that look with the bobby socks and the shoes I don't know if that was in or if I just thought it was in or particularly ochre on I have no idea and now it's making some sort of a comeback which I find inexplicable but I encourage you who are listening to this little piece right now don't wear these clothes again don't do it I made the mistake learn from my mistakes the first time I ever went to the Emmys I wore black I just given birth to my son three weeks earlier okay I was not at my normal weight and feeling very self-conscious I don't know why I'm saying this it though by the way this is a huge mistake on my part but I'll just go ahead and tell you guys that as I was getting ready to go to the Emmys my dress split so you can imagine my horror and so they had to sew me into it you know I just given birth to this gorgeous baby anyway whatever this was sort of pre the days that you would even have a stylist I don't believe I think you dressed yourself that's my memory anyway I want a red carpet dress too I don't want to worry about it so I want it by the time I hit the red carpet I want to know that it works I don't want to have misgivings about it so that I can worry about other things because I'm a worrier so I need to go to the next thing to worry about [Laughter] so this is from 1995 this is an Armani dress and it was made of black velvet and had an incredible construction this section of the dress was there was a bone within it that kept this all in place and I remember running into people from work on the red carpet and they didn't recognize me they didn't know it was me I swear it's me it's Julia and they were like what they had no idea and I remember also that after I wore this I didn't win an Emmy that year but after I wore it mr. Armani wrote me a handwritten note saying thank you for wearing it and that that was so nice and I kept the note because it was very meaningful to me of course this was a departure for me to wear something like this because it was so sexy I wouldn't say it's a retaliation but it's against the Elaine look but it was a way of kind of pushing the edge of the on envelope for me at that time and it was considered in 1995 very risque I don't think this would be considered risque today but it was then that's the Bob Mackie oh my God look at that okay first of all it's Bob Mackie it was so exciting and I worked with him on this dress literally I went to his studio and he measured me and I loved pink I still love pink I love the idea of a corset and I was you can see I'm I'm very pleased with myself in this outfit I I think this is a great look he was divine to work with very unassuming and very humble fellow considering his enormous success it was an honor for me to work with him I couldn't believe I was working with him okay yes my god this is so gorgeous I love this dress I'm sorry and I still have this dress and I love it with all my heart yeah this is a 2007 Emmys and this dress was made by Narciso Rodriguez I was a huge fan of his work it was very glam cuz I flew to New York once or twice to meet with him and get measured and we did a muslin fitting and we looked at fabrics and it was all very you know inside fashion in a way that I had never sort of been privy to in New York and it was really exciting and I remember very distinctly that he said to me that he wanted this dress to look like a bullet and it sort of does it has a sleekness like a bullet I won my second Emmy in this dress and and I also have the sketch that he drew of this dress for me before he even made the dress and he signed it to me and I have that as a keepsake I still own that I have a lot of these bits and pieces of things from the past that I've hung on to actually oh yeah yeah so that's good so this is Oscar and I'm first of all I love this dress so much it's navy and black which is one of my favorite color combinations I think it's like sophisticated and glamorous at the same time it's all a piece so there is no seam on this dress and it's this is all this gorgeous lace work so they have to mold it for you I don't know how they do it I feel I actually feel as if it's a magic trick that's right this dress is magic trick that's what I'm gonna say that this is a huge night for me the Mark Twain awards and to be there looking fancy and and having this celebration with my my family and friends was quite a remarkable thing I was wearing a gorgeous pair of either I think they were Manolos and but unfortunately they were too high and I had to do essentially sort of a nod to the Elaine dance so it was a very big moment in the Kennedy Center but when I went to rehearsal I kept falling over in the shoes and whilst they were absolutely gorgeous they didn't work for the for the comedy bit I'm gonna have to tell you these are Nordstrom signature shoes that I've got on on the red carpet so don't tell your boss yes why have a lot to say about theme this is a dolce gabbana dress every this is the first episode of season seven which is our final season of V every single first episode of every single season on d by born a red dress Selina Meyer the character I play she is somebody who wears clothes and spends a lot of money on clothes and her look what's been very informative to me and playing this character is that she is someone who feels constricted all the time and is constricted all the time because these dresses are tight and I wear a wig on the show I wear high heels on the show I have tight dresses on the show I am cinched in I mean I don't dress up like this day-to-day I'm in the garden I have flowers I am wearing shorts and a big wide hat on the other hand I love fashion I do in fact I like to present myself a certain way and I want to feel confident I'm a girly girl it's to say it my son once said when I was getting ready for for some event and he said my mom's upstairs getting fixed so I like getting fixed [Music]

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Length: 10min 10sec (610 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 22 2019