I am Salma Hayek and today we are going to be looking

at some of my most iconic looks throughout my career.

Let's see what we have here.

Okay.

So this is 1996, yes, that's how old I am,

and I wore this to MTV Movie Awards

and I think I was nominated for best kiss.

I was wearing an interesting lipstick to be one

of the nominees for that category.

I like the look, it's kind of like a very sexy tuxedo.

I really like the hair.

I think I was channeling Ariana Grande

before Ariana Grande was born.

Okay.

This Armani dress was the first time I went to the Oscars.

It was the first time I presented at the Oscars.

It's a very simple dress, at that time not many people

wanted to dress me because I was not that well known,

and so I'm very grateful to Mr. Armani

for supporting me at the beginning of my career

and I have to say that I decided I wanted to wear a tiara

and everybody told me I was crazy and it was ridiculous

and it was gonna be pretentious

and everybody tried to convince me not to do it,

like my manager, my stylist, my publicist

and I wore the tiara anyway and you know what happened?

Everybody started wearing a tiara after that,

and it never got credit for that trend,

never ever, ever, 'cause I was kind of an unknown.

It's okay, I know.

So this is 1997.

This black Versace dress I love and I have very interesting

memories about it because Gianni gave it to me,

and it's a beautiful dress and it fit me so well,

like a glove.

I only got to wear it at the MET when we were doing

homage to Gianni who was also very generous to me.

One of the first ones that invited me to his parties

and I think even a fashion show in New York

and I was just getting to know him when unfortunately

he so tragically died, but I'm also very grateful

that he supported me at the beginning of my career.

This is MTV again, and it's 1998.

And so I got this lovely, very simple black dress

and I didn't have that much jewelry at the time,

so I decided to wear some tattoos and I thought butterflies

would be nice.

So I, it was my design to make the dress more interesting.

This I was very proud actually to come up with something

interesting, there were even really hard to come across

and I might have painted them.

I might have had someone painted those tattoos

because the stickers were probably not even existing

in that time.

And that was my style.

Okay, this next one, it's 1999.

I found this skirt somewhere and the shirt somewhere else

and somehow put it together.

And this is the thing, when you're young,

you can get away with a lot.

I made up this look with on top of it some purple pashmina

which were the thing at the time, the pashminas.

Actually at the very beginning of my career

I really struggled getting clothes,

I couldn't afford it on my own.

And the other girls were getting people

to lend them clothes, but really nobody thought a Mexican

was gonna stick around so why give me a dress?

But things have changed a lot since.

So this is in Cannes, the thing I could put together

and again it was taking a chance, nobody was doing this.

I took a sweater that's supposed to be, meant,

to wear with something underneath 'cause it only had

two buttons and a skirt and made my own fashion style.

Little did I know that "Vogue" one day was gonna say

one of your iconic looks and it was kind of like,

a lot of these looks it was just my creativity

trying to struggle with the fact that I didn't

have a lot of resources and I'm very proud

that it was in my imagination, you know,

that made me create these looks.

This next one is 2002 when I did "Frida"

and this was in "Vogue"

and I was very proud to be part of "Vogue" for the first

time in my life.

This monkey, who was named Tyson actually attacked me

during the filming of "Frida" and I was really severely

injured but I was brave enough to let him come back

and work again in the movie and then I still did

a photo shoot with him for "Vogue" afterwards.

I was really hoping he wouldn't go for my face.

This red dress was made for me by

my dear friend, Narciso Rodriguez.

And it was an important year for me because I was nominated

for The Golden Globes.

And I wanted to wear something fantastic.

Why is Narciso convinced me that I should go just simple,

and pick a color that represented a little bit of my spirit

and so he just made the simplest but most beautiful

red dress and I think it was the way he explained it to me

why he wanted to do this that actually gave me a lot

of confidence to actually own it, you know?

And I love that dress.

And I love the love that came, I could feel the love

that came to it from Narciso.

Okay, this blue dress, it was again to present

at the Oscars, and I'm very good friends

with Penelope Cruz and sometimes and I'm sure when

you have like your best friend, sometimes you think alike,

and Penelope and I have this thing with many times

where we see each to go out to dinner or something

and we're wearing the same thing,

or the same color, or similar.

'Cause we were presenting together this year,

we did call each other and say what are wearing

so we make sure we're not wearing the same color,

or similar or you know, and so she was wearing the strapless

and yellow and blue we were very careful not to wear

the same thing.

But when we showed up we realized we were doing,

we did the same hair.

So after all that work, it was very funny,

we had very similar hair, and it was hilarious.

And at this time I was really good friends

with Prince, and this is one of the dress

that he like, he was really into looking into what

you were wearing.

This is one of his favorite dresses that I've ever worn

so every time I look at it I think of Penelope and Prince.

Hey.

So, this Gucci number in 2012 in Cannes,

what I remember is that I was super excited but super tired

and it's one of those moments where you're just like,

you've been working all day and now you still have to work

at night, I put more makeup on myself and then once we left

I felt like a clown.

And I was trying to hide at the party because it was just

too much makeup and then I went to the bathroom

to try to rub it and it just got worse.

And so, the makeup is good, but I shouldn't have worn

something so flashy, with all that jewelry

and so much makeup.

And so, yeah, to live and to learn.

But the party was great.

This dress I wore in 2015 for the Gucci LACMA gala,

designed by Alessandro Michele at the beginning of his

grand appearance at Gucci and I just loved that dress

and loved the Pepto Bismal color which maybe in some

other time would have seem like scandalous,

I think it goes well with my skin.

This dress was for when I presented at the BAFTAs in 2018.

I loved this dress.

I love this dress, and I'm gonna tell you something,

after suffering so much with what am I gonna wear,

nobody wants to dress me, it's so nice,

that now I have access to like the best brands in the world

and I have to say that the Gucci team always know

how to deal with my body and make it look good

and what's best for me and it's just so nice

to have those fashion angels at my disposal that are so nice

to me and really take care of me and look after me

and they are genius and I always feel like excited

to go to places now because you have something to wear.

Ah, I love this one.

This is the MET Gala 2019, and it's again Gucci

and I have to confess I like to wear the crowns.

I love to put something in my hair.

I'm so glad that now Gucci and other designers

are embracing the jewelry on the head.

I love to decorate the head.

Maybe it rubbed off from "Frida",

you know who loved it so much, but why not?

Why just the hands and the neck, it's nice to put things

that are shiny, bling bling on your head.

I loved that look.

I know I was supposed to be more camp,

but you know, now when I go to the MET I don't try

to compete, I try to enjoy the show.

I don't want to be the star of the show,

I just want to enjoy the show and just wear clothes

that I love.

Wow, it's been an amazing journey.

I have to say, sometimes I look at the clothes

that I wore in the past and I go what was I thinking?

But then I feel proud of that girl, that sometimes,

not with a lot of resources, had fun,

and took chances and tried to be creative.

I do appreciate the artistry that goes around it

and how it expresses who we are

in different times of history.

Thank you for taking me through my fashion history

throughout the years.

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