I could be here all day.

I love talking about fashion [laughs].

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Hi Vogue.

Here I am, Gwen Stefani.

I am here to look back on some of my style,

some of my looks.

As you know, I'm very passionate about fashion.

This first one here is a picture of me

in some kind of satin leopard pants and a tank top,

'cause I pretty much only wore tank tops my whole life.

'Cause I don't know why, just think they look cool.

I had to be a little bit tomboy with a little bit glamor.

So from here down tomboy, from here up glamor.

And that was just kind of the vibe for myself,

what I always followed.

And this is from MTV, I wanna say, Awards.

Probably 1995.

I was just so unbelievably fascinated

by Indian culture in particular

because Tony Kanal, who was my boyfriend at the time,

he's the bass player of No Doubt, is Indian from India,

and I had never, growing up in Anaheim,

spent any time with anyone from India

and his mom would come down the stairs

ready to go to these India parties all dolled up

with a bindi and jewelry and these beautiful

fabric dresses and with patterns and gold and,

I would just be like yeah, I've never seen anything like it

and so she gave me a lot of bindis

and I was just like hey, what's up, boom.

Okay, this next photo is,

I'm on the red carpet

and I had just gotten home from tour

so people would send me free stuff.

I was like, what?

Free stuff! And somebody sent me this product

that was this gel that you put in your hair

and it turns your hair a color and it was blue

and it was like a paste and so I was like okay,

just really kid of inspired by Judy Jetson

from the Jetsons sort of in this moment

and I had met this girl through my manager

that made clothes and so she made this little skirt for me.

The shoes were just literally, somebody sent them to me

[laughs] and same with the bathing suit top,

the blue bathing suit top, fur, okay.

You would wear it too if it was free

and you've gotten home off tour so be quiet.

Pick a number next.

Ooh!

Okay, this is me at another award show.

So what happened with pink hair?

It's so true, like,

if you go through a breakup

or a really big change in your life,

sometimes you go ahead and change your hair

like to try to, I don't know,

wash whatever those feelings are out of your hair.

At that time, there was really only one brand

that you could get, it was like manic panic.

And I wanted my hair cotton candy, light pink,

and I would have this vision of what I wanted

and I ended up with fuchsia pink hair for like a year, so.

You know, at that time, too,

I didn't have any budgets.

I didn't have a stylist.

It was like literally on my own with all guys.

Kind of really started to get influenced

by Debra Harry like in her style.

I was really confused at this time.

I was 29 years old.

I was really confused about my relationship.

I didn't know who I was.

I'd come off a long, long tour.

I had gotten famous.

I got to buy a house.

I got to move out of my parents' house.

Like, so much had happened and I think

I had wrote this record called Return to Saturn

which is really all about assessing your life

so the pink hair and the braces

really like, yeah, that's who I, you know what I'm saying?

And the braces were me coming home and being like,

you see this money I got?

Boom, I'm gettin' braces, finally, ha ha!

We did this show.

It was like, New Years Eve show

and we did this song called End of the World As You Know It.

The song has 1,000 lyrics in it and it was live TV

and I remember I was trying so hard to memorize the words

and I had the braces on first the first time

and I couldn't sing, like,

literally, my lips were getting caught in my braces

and I came off stage and went into some closet in some room

and cried for the rest of the night.

It was New Years and looking back, I think about it

and everybody was kissing and nobody was even watching me

so I don't even know why I did that.

Yep.

[laughs]

Oh my gosh, okay.

So this is when I feel a little more proud of myself.

I feel like that's because

I finally got to work with a stylist

and I met my, like,

the New York Jewish street

cooler, way cooler, person

that kind of like I felt like was me

but the cool version of me [laughs]

and her name was Andrea Lieberman.

I knew exactly kind of what I wanted to look like

in the video and I got on the phone with Andrea.

I didn't really know who she was at all

and having Andrea as a stylist

was a way to take like double the talent

so it was like my ideas

and I just remember saying,

I want to have a visor,

kind of like Chrissy from Three's Company,

but then this, yeah, I had this whole thing.

And when I got to the fitting for the e-video,

she had literally had like a truck.

I'd never seen so many clothes in my life

and everything, every idea I had

she had taken it to a whole other level.

She had made custom pants.

I'd never had anyone really make me custom pants

that actually make me look skinny.

I was like, what?

She was definitely my soulmate when it comes to fashion

and she taught me so much

because I wasn't schooled in fashion.

I didn't grow up in New York.

I didn't even know who Vivienne Westwood was.

Like I didn't know she did punk. I didn't know any of that

'cause I just wasn't exposed to it in Orange County.

But I definitely feel like working with Andrea

and having a stylist to have access

to stuff I didn't even know existed

was just taking me to another level

as far as being able to yeah, express myself.

Okay yeah, this is the cover of Vogue.

This is my first Vogue cover.

Never thought that would happen.

Can't believe it still that it did happen.

And this was a while ago.

So they would do a shoot for a whole weekend

and you would do a two-day fitting before the shoot

so it was like an event

and the way it made me feel was like,

I was used to having so much control over my look

and what I did and really was quite anti-fashion magazine

growing up because I think as a kid,

I just felt like I was alienated.

It was like, you can't get that stuff.

That's for rich people.

That's for, those things aren't real.

Of course I was just naive and I didn't know,

but what I love about Vogue

and what I love about being able to do the cover of Vogue

and be able to collaborate with so many talented people

along my journey is to learn about art,

you know, art through fashion

and I think that this was that experience.

Steven Meisel at this time

was this really super-duper famous photographer

and I was super naive 'cause I had like heard the name

but I don't know about that world,

so I was just being really honest, like I just didn't know.

He had not been working for a while

and he's very eccentric and he had kinda come out

of hiding to do this shoot.

And I also got to work with Pat McGrath

who is this famous makeup artist

and I had always done my own makeup, my own hair,

my own styling so I felt scared

that everybody was taking over and I had no choice.

Like you're gonna do your makeup in front of the camera

and Steven's gonna watch

and Pat's gonna put the makeup on

and then you don't even get to see it

and I had just done the Aviator movie

and I think that makeup was influenced by that,

the way that the eyebrows were,

and I look at the photo, I'm like I don't know,

who is that? I don't even think it looks like me at all.

Interesting they put me in the stripes

which is something that's been a signature of mine

along my journey and still is so,

it was an incredible experience

but when the weekend was over,

I was like relieved.

It was, an Orange County girl just didn't belong there.

It was like, what am I doing here?

But it was awesome.

I love you, Vogue, so much.

Okay, how about we talk about The Voice?

So, I am a coach on The Voice

and this look is something that I begged for.

You know sometimes when you're working in stuff

you gotta be creative within a budget

so that gets frustrating,

especially when you get really spoiled

like I am at this point.

And I remember I really wanted this corset

and there's an amazing designer called The Blondes

that do a lot of these beautiful corsets.

I worked with Rob and Mariel

and they are an incredible team

that I've got to work with over the years

and when I stopped working with Andrea

'cause she started her own line, I cried for like two days

'cause we weren't gonna work together,

but Rob and Mariel have been incredible to work with

and they just really get who I am.

They actually begged The Blondes to make this outfit for me

so that I could have it for a performance

that I did on The Voice, so.

There it is, so beautiful.

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I look at it like,

I'm always gonna be the same person

and I'm always gonna like the same things,

but you can't help but be, like, your eyes are opened

as you travel and as you get

to collaborate with different people

and see things through, you know,

whatever lens they're looking through.

And even up until now,

there's things that I never thought that I could do

or makeup I didn't think I would be able to wear.

Every single day is a new day

and yes, I think that my style is gonna always evolve

and style definitely reflects

your personality, your mood,

and where you're at in your life.

And it makes you happy.

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