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Elle Fanning revisits her red carpet history, looking back on everything from childhood premieres to her latest fashion moments as an award-nominated actor. From Met Gala looks to standout designer collaborations, Elle shares which outfits she’d wear again, which surprised her, and the stories behind some of her most iconic style eras.
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I look like a very chic Oreo, I think
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Hi, Who, What, Where. I'm Elle Fanning, and this is Would You Wear It Now
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We are starting out strong here. This is me. When I was very young, I was probably five or six in
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this photo. I remember this well, actually. I remember these clogs. I'm wearing these clogs a
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lot. This poncho is very chic. I mean, this is quite a choice. This is at the Sinbad premiere
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This is so funny because like in the early 2000s, there used to be all these like kids premieres and
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like kids would go and walk the red carpet for these kids movies. And my sister and I talk about
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this all the time, how those premieres were some of the most fun times in our life. Like they were
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so extravagant, like the after party. It was out of control. There was like petting zoos, like they
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really went all out on these kids premieres so yeah looks like I'm having a good time I don't
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know if I would wear this exact outfit now but um I do not regret it oh all right we're growing up
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we're growing up this is really special actually this was at the Venice Film Festival for somewhere
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and I was probably like 11 or 12 and this was a Marc Jacobs dress that Sophia actually helped me
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pick out we picked it out together because she obviously is extremely close to Marc I also felt
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very kind of grown up because I had my hair in this ponytail. Like I was like, I want to wear
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my hair back. And that festival was special. It was my first time in Venice, first time there. So
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this was just a very exciting night. And I would definitely wear this now. I think this looks
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pretty chic. Ooh, this is a good one. This is my first Met Ball. I picked this outfit out
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specifically because I thought it was something that Alexa Chung would wear. And I wanted
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her to notice my outfit and compliment me on it. And my dreams came true because I was on the red
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carpet and then she was standing behind me and like kind of tapped me on my shoulder and was like
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I really like your outfit So I manifested that and it happened I would totally wear this again Oh okay God these are like blasts from the past I haven seen these in a very long time Okay this was a hot ticket to get
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My sister was in this film, so I was the coolest girl at my school
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and I got to go to the Twilight Eclipse premiere and bring some of my friends
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I was so excited for this premiere. I got this at the mall
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There's no designer happening here. Doc Martens were really cool in middle school
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And these were heeled ones, which I had never seen to wear like heeled Doc Martens
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And I took the shoelaces out and put a satin ribbon in
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which looks pretty good. Ooh, this is good. This is really special
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This was a custom Gucci look that Alessandro Michel did for me
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And this was the second Maleficent premiere. I loved the little nod to Sleeping Beauty and Aurora
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and I asked if they could add little drops of blood from my finger prick
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and that was incorporated on the glove. Our version of Aurora in Maleficent was very of the earth
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She was like queen of the moors, and I felt so confident in this dress
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Ooh, okay. Now this might be one of my favorite looks I've ever worn
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I have to say. This was Dior, and this was when I was on the jury
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at the Cannes Film Festival, and this was for the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood premiere
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I had this idea with Samantha McMillan, who's my stylist, who has been my stylist
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since I was 13 years old. We worked with Dior, and they came up
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with this fabulous creation. It's just iconic. I remember also getting to wear the hat on the Cannes carpet
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It felt very powerful and different, and old Hollywood glamour. It's really one of my favorites ever
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It's hard to beat. Oh, oh, this is fun. This is another Met Ball
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Very fun. Okay, this is a Met Ball. The theme was camp, if you haven't guessed
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This was a custom Mew Mew look. And I kind of feel like I'm like
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I Dream of Jeannie vibes. My mom has all these plastic charms necklace charms from the 80s She kind of collects them And so I remember I would look through them all the time as a young girl and so i had the idea was like maybe we should
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like blow these up on a large scale like can we make a charm necklace that's huge and mu mu mrs
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prada they worked their magic and this necklace was insane the detail that went into it camp is
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one of the charms the mess on there i'm on there they made like a large scale cameo of my face and
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And this was just a really fun night. I really loved everyone's looks from this night
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Okay, this was last year for the Golden Globes. And this was when I was there for A Complete Unknown
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And my sister was nominated for Ripley that year, which was so incredible in her show
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And we got to go together. And I do also spy our grandmother in the back
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She was our date. That was just so special to have her there and share that night with her
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And I think our looks really look good. I mean, they're different styles, but they complement each other
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We worked off kind of a vintage Balmain dress that has this cheetah print
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It was quite a big skirt, though. Hard to fit in a chair, but sometimes you have to sacrifice for fashion
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Oh, God, another Met Ball, another Met Ball. And this is Balmain again
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This dress was quite amazing. This was resin that was manipulated and sculpted and then dried
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It was completely hard. We wanted to make it look like glass, and the theme that year was Sleeping Beauty
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There was a poem about like a glass statue in the garden, and so to have the birds
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I also think, since I am Sleeping Beauty, I guess, to make it look like the birds were dressing me in this glass sculpture
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I did have to change, though. I was allowed to change when I went inside because I couldn't sit
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So I did have to stand up in one of the Sprinter vans to get there, but it was extremely worth it
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Very special. Oh, this is Cannes. Cannes again. Cannes is one of my happiest places and a place where I really
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love to experiment with my fashion. This was an extremely special trip because we got to premiere
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our film Sentimental Value that Yochum Trier directed. Samantha, my stylist, her son
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who is 12 years old Dylan he has a t club and he makes and he draws on these t and he a fantastic artist And I asked her I was like you know what I think it would be cool
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if Dylan wrote this Yochum Trier Summer because Charlie XCX at her Coachella set had done this
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cool thing of artists that she loves and like flashed it up. And Yochum Trier was one of those
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people. And we're like, oh my God, Yochum Trier Summer, that's so cool. So we let Dylan
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you know draw it on there in that same font and Charlie approves she DM'd me and she she really
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liked this oh this was recently this is at the Badlands premiere in London and this was a custom
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coach look that Stewart made for me with that iconic coach leather and that jacket god it was
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a good jacket and we added little pins that I bought off eBay so Arnold Schwarzenegger's on
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there and different predators from the franchise over the years. It was the first time that I had
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actually seen the movie in its entirety. I played two characters in the film, but Thea and Tessa
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they're Weyland-Yutani synths. And pretty much the whole time, I wear like a white leather jacket. So
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I think this is Thea and Tessa approved, I hope. Last one. This was at the Academy Gala. And I
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I really love this look. It was just so unique. This was Pierre Palo's debut collection for Balenciaga
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These colors together are so magical to me and kind of different for me, you know
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I felt so comfortable in this. I felt so unique. And it really looked good from all angles
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Like the back had this beautiful kind of train. And it was perfect all night
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Yeah, my sister was with me there too. So we got to go as each other students. Oh, picking my favorite
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What the heck? That's hard. I mean, they're all so special to me in so many different ways
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But I think I have to go with, I think I got to go with the Dior
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I do. I think I have to go with the Dior because it was just such, it was so impactful at that
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time and I just love it. So yeah, I'm going to go with the Dior