[sighs]

- Hello, Vogue.

It's Brooke Shields.

I am going to take you through some of

the most iconic looks that I have had over the years.

I hope you're ready.

The first one, oh, yes.

I was 12 years old

at this time, and it was

right after Pretty Baby

and right before I did a movie called Tilt.

And after Pretty Baby, my hair was so destroyed

by the way they tried,

they had to fuzz my hair up every day,

and the night that we wrapped, I chopped all my hair off.

And this was my Frye boot era.

I did not skateboard very well,

but I liked carrying it around and pretending that I could.

And I was about ready to go into seventh grade,

which was terrifying to me.

Next, [laughs]

oh God, look at those dance moves.

Um, hm,

this was a Studio 54 photo.

I am wearing a very high-waisted, pinstriped,

you can't see the suspenders but I was wearing suspenders.

They might be a fancy pump,

I'm not sure if they're a Chanel pump,

but I'm sure if they are, I borrowed them from my mom

'cause we had the same size shoe.

I was 14

when I was dancing at Studio 54,

as one does.

I used to love whenever Warhol was there,

'cause whenever Andy was there,

'cause we're on a first-name basis,

he always had his little camera,

and so I always knew he was gonna take fun, funny pictures.

He never looked through the lens,

he just would take pictures like this.

Every now and then I would glance to the VIP section

and there would be somebody famous,

Bianca Jagger or Baryshnikov

or some super model,

and it wouldn't be enough to get me off the dance floor.

[laughs] I gotta be honest,

all I wanted to do was dance.

Ha, okay,

this was for

[laughs] surprise, the jewelry.

This was for H.Stern.

The idea was that after Pretty Baby,

they labeled me the Million Dollar Baby.

Try to live through that in high school.

It was fun.

So they put jewels all through my hair

and around my forehead. [laughs]

I was 16, so I was going to high school.

We just drove in from the city,

I had the appearance to do, it was over really quickly

and I took them off and went back to

where lived in Jersey and had my homework to do.

I wasn't living the life

that this person looks like they're living.

[laughs]

[sighs] Ah, yes, Blue Lagoon.

Not a lot of clothes there.

The costumes on this in particular were actually crafted,

they were really beautifully crafted

because they were taken from vintage pieces

that they had to make look worn.

So a lot of them were just taped on my body

or draped and then sewn on my body

to look like they had been the only clothes

that I had had.

You can also, if you look closely,

he's all bronze and even,

and every day at 4 a.m.

I had to stand in this little wooden hut,

and they had to take big sponges of body dye

and dye my whole body to make it look

like I had been there over 10 years.

[laughs]

Ah, okay, this was for the premiere of Endless Love

I had never worn my hair back like this.

This was a skirt and little top,

and it was a real party outfit in my mind.

I could still dance in it, which was really important.

And I wore my mom's earrings,

which I still have, actually.

I was just really proud of this movie and this moment,

and I loved this look.

And I got to sit next to Elizabeth Taylor.

And aha, Vogue, Avedon,

and I remember thinking

that this was the heaviest piece of jewelry

I had ever put on my neck.

This was sort of when Paloma Picasso, for me,

was really just introduced as this extraordinary designer

who was sort of crossing

jewelry with art.

It was sort of one of the first times

I had ever really become cognizant of that.

It was that very extraordinary thing

where you did this whole amount of prep,

and then you went behind these big, heavy metal doors

and then it was just you.

And Avedon, he would blast music.

For me, he blasted Diana Ross.

You just sat at the table with the reflector

and it was like you were in your own little bubble,

and you always had really good lunch

from this Chinese restaurant.

Oh, very proud moment of mine.

This was my slick hair,

dark, dark red lip, big hoops, lots of crop tops.

I really can't show this to my daughter,

because then I won't be able

to tell her she can't wear them.

This was the premiere of Death Becomes Her.

I was a huge fan of Meryl Streep's.

This was on the off chance I was going to get to meet her.

[laughs]

I thought she'd like this outfit.

[laughs]

[inhales deeply]

Ah, this was a very happy picture for me.

I was extremely proud.

This was Richard Tyler, he made this dress for me

for the Golden Globes, for my nomination.

The next day,

I got brought into the agency's office

and she read me the riot act about

how I really should have consulted her first

[laughs] about wearing red.

It was just an absolute outrage

that my lips matched my dress.

And I remember being berated in her office,

and then walking away thinking,

"How ironic, I felt really good

"about what I looked like."

[laughs]

And then the irony continues,

because the next year everybody wore red.

Trailblazer.

Paved the road.

Aha, okay, a little misstep here.

So this was clearly post-the red dress,

because this was the SAG Awards, '99.

So, instead of going glamorous

and what I thought fabulous, I clearly went

choir girl meets Amish

graduation gown something,

and clearly this signified serious actress to me.

[laughs]

Oh, I feel bad for her.

Ah, another happy moment.

Annie Leibovitz took this picture of me, pregnant.

We had worked all day long,

and we were gonna do this beautiful

swimming photo underwater.

For some reason, I don't think she was

just really happy with whether she got it or not,

and I came

out of the tank

and I just stood there and she stopped and said,

"We have to take this picture."

It was hard being the second person

to be photographed pregnant,

because Demi had done it prior,

and she had that whole unbelievable tuxedo look

so it was like, impossible to kind of rival that.

I was just so happy I was gonna be

on the cover of Vogue and pregnant.

[sighs] Ah, okay.

A couple years ago, Zac Posen designed

this extraordinary dress for me to wear at the Met Gala.

I was so happy it had pockets,

even though I didn't put anything in the pockets.

And I just felt,

I felt really

regal and beautiful

and appropriate.

The theme was passion, you know,

the Catholic and the whole thing.

That really rich blue really did touch upon the theme.

I got to do whole fittings and everything,

it was sort of glamor the way most people think it is.

This actually felt like that.

I wanted it to look really gorgeous,

and Zac was just so lovely, and he

got me a robe, and he made me this little evening purse.

I felt like a real star. [laughs]

Um,

four days ago?

[laughs]

This was at MoMA, they were honoring Laura Dern.

I think the biggest change in my style from

the then to the now is

that I don't wear something if I don't love it

and feel good in it.

It took a while for me to sort of get confident

in having an opinion.

In that past era, I would say the red dress is my favorite.

I felt my best, I felt glamorous,

I was nominated so I was proud of my work.

That would be my favorite look from then.

These last two are definitely my favorite,

favorite looks now, 'cause this is who I am.

Thank you so much.

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