Watch Sonam Kapoor Get Ready For the Dior Couture Show

Vogue

Director: Tim Jarosson Director of Photography: Tanguy Masson Editor: Michael Suyeda Producer: Chase Lewis Producer, On Set: Amaury Delcambre Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg Audio: Hubert Rey-Grange Production Assistant: Pauline Sarlande Stylist: Rhea Kapoor Make-up Artist: Arti Nayar Hairstylist: Stephan Lancien Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar, Meryl Marciano Production Managers: David Alvarez Paz, Natasha Soto-Albors Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier Assistant Editor: Andy Morell Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio Global Entertainment Director: Sergio Kletnoy Senior Talent Manager: Mica Medoff Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes Senior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den Broeke Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri Filmed on Location: Le Bristol Paris

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00:00The first fashion show that I got invited to was in Paris by Jean-Paul Gaultier, it was his couture

00:05show. He was the first one to dress me and the first one to invite me to his fashion show

00:10and I also saw his last couture show in Paris.

00:18Today's show is very special to me. The artwork which is the backdrop of this show is done by

00:24this Indian girl called Hrithika Merchant. I'm so inspired by her that I had commissioned a special

00:28artwork when my son was born and I had sent 250 prints of that artwork to 250 of the closest

00:36people that I knew. So the fact that she's here and I'm here and this is her first big international

00:43collaboration is so, it's emotional for me. But Dior and me have had an association since I was

00:5122-23 years old for my film Aisha that my sister and I produced. Dior lent me all these amazing

00:57looks and the Lady Dior bag which was the main bag of the film. It's a relationship that's been

01:02on for the last 15 years and also I love the fact that Dior and Maria Grazia were the first people,

01:10the first people to acknowledge how much India has a part to play in all fashion houses,

01:18in couture houses, in the world and they were the first to acknowledge that.

01:22I'm wearing the current season. It's this beautiful net black dress which is draped really wonderfully

01:30and it almost reminds me of like an Indian outfit but it's not and it's really sexy and

01:36it's very sporty and cool at the same time.

01:42We are inspired by the outfit, by what we want to creatively do together

01:46and I think that keeping in mind what she's wearing and the way the hair is, I think all of that coming together is when is how we decide what to do.

01:59We're keeping it very clean, very classic but also being inspired by India and basically doing like

02:06a beautiful liner but still keeping it very modern. We've been working together since

02:11I think the day I decided I wanted to be a makeup artist.

02:14She was first a costume assistant.

02:16So I was doing clothes then and then I fell in love with makeup on that film.

02:20How many years has it been?

02:2116 years, 17 years.

02:23Yeah, almost.

02:26It's very difficult to work with my hair and Stefan has been doing my hair.

02:29Nice, you are a dream for the hairstylist.

02:33He's been doing my hair also since I was 22 years old.

02:36We're doing something very simple, very chic, super modern.

02:42Can I order some fries please?

02:43Because it's like for three or four people.

02:49I love Paris.

02:50It's such a nice place to be if you're an artist.

02:52You feel protected and you feel seen over here.

02:56When I have time, I love to go to the museums or the exhibition.

02:59My favourite museum is the Orsay.

03:02I always get inspired and every time I go there, I feel different because it's at different ages.

03:07My biggest style inspiration is my mother.

03:12She was a fashion designer and she was a model and my sister.

03:15My sister has been my stylist since I started work.

03:18She's actually a very, very successful film producer.

03:26Mustard and ketchup with French fries.

03:30It's the only way to have it.

03:33My makeup and hair is done and now it's time for me to get into my outfit.

03:42I think that I had this early obsession with dressing my Barbie dolls when I was really

03:48young and then Sonam just became mine.

03:50I unofficially started dressing her since forever and then officially I became her stylist

03:56when I was 21.

03:58So now it's been 17 years.

04:02Thanks for telling everybody my age.

04:03I'm telling my age now.

04:05I think Sonam's personal style has always been exuberant, joyful and she really has

04:10an appreciation for everything that goes into making a moment and I think that came

04:15from my mom and my aunt.

04:17I think she kind of loves the idea of creating a moment but not on herself.

04:22So she has me and so she does it on me.

04:24No matter how uncomfortable it is, I have to just go with her vision.

04:28And I think that makes us a perfect match.

04:31We just love to have fun with fashion and we don't really think so much about trends.

04:35We think about what we find beautiful and currently I've been really, really inspired

04:41by looking into the archives of the Maharajas and the Maharanis as I've always been.

04:47But it's so much significance to what they did with European jewelers and jewelers that

04:53they were inspired by their craftsmanship that they like and I really am inspired by

04:57the idea of placing that on an Indian actor and obviously I really want to do it on my

05:02sister.

05:02So I'm excited to work with European jewelers since they've been inspired by India and

05:06we are now inspired by them and create like a beautiful style marriage.

05:09So today we're wearing a dress from the Spring Summer Collection and a faux fur coat

05:13from the Resort Collection and I love the filigree detail on the Dior bag.

05:17I feel like there's something quintessentially Indian about it almost and then we've done

05:21like a Sahara, a pearl Sahara.

05:24It's basically an Indian earring that you attach into the hair to give it support.

05:27We've also done a black Gajra.

05:30A Gajra is usually like flowers that you adorn your hair with and it's very traditionally

05:35Indian but we kind of make it a little badass by making it black and just have some fun.

05:45Thank you for being with me the whole journey.

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