Lily Collins takes a trip down memory lane and revisits some of her most memorable fashion looks. From her Met Gala dresses all the way down to her wardrobe in 'Emily in Paris,' Lily gives us everything we need to know about her biggest style moments.
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00:00stop oh they're life-size oh my god oh my god they're from the show and from life I'm like
00:11there's so many costumes going on oh my god literally my height hi I'm Lily Collins and
00:18this is life-size I well first of all I tomorrow Ralph Couture stunning I was very honored to
00:29get to wear this dress I we actually had been holding it for a while so I was grateful that
00:34they kept letting us hold the dress because it was in high demand I wore this to the BAFTAs this
00:39last year I remember first of all being very heavy this is all metal work which was so insanely
00:46stunning very heavy to wear but I was so excited too it's velvet it's got body on the side I mean
00:54everything about it was so stunning when I'm presenting an award like at the BAFTAs I never
00:58want to mispronounce someone's name and so in my brain I don't want to have that big moment when
01:04someone wins be tainted by the fact that I said their name wrong so there's a lot of rehearsals
01:09that go on before you actually step out on stage and then you like want to be professional but like
01:15kind of funny because you kind of want the audience to like pay attention and then you look down and
01:19you're like oh and then like Prince William is just sitting right there and like oh my god and you hope
01:25for a really good partner in crime and Coleman was so kind and so perfect and we both just like like
01:32we got this meanwhile all we're doing is going out and like giving someone a brilliant moment in their
01:38life and it's just like it's not about us it's about them oh things are heated on the phone this is
01:44clearly um season three because I have bangs we've got a mixture actually of of designers here I know
01:50that this was Gautier on top Celine underneath a vintage belt I believe don't quote me on that but
01:56I think it was Marilyn Fattusi our costume designer is so brilliant at mixing vintage and new and patterns
02:02and prints as you can tell she is so collaborative when it comes to transitions every season for Emily's
02:08style but also every character style always keeping in mind that Emily's bold and brave and not afraid to
02:14try new things but starting to I don't know draw inspiration from Sylvie and Camille and other
02:21people that are French in the city that she's seeing and pairing it with a black pant and not being
02:26afraid that there's not color on the bottom and kind of becoming a little bit less is more attitude but
02:32still Emily Emily no the genesis of the bangs was that I got bangs for the press tour for season two
02:47loved them so much and had been pitching that she had bangs didn't get them in season two but then got
02:52to do them for the press then I thought well now that I have them kind of have to have them for season
02:58three but then we had to work it into the storyline I thought well Emily's going through a bit of a
03:03crisis you know and what do I do when I'm trying to figure out something change my hair change my
03:08look and of course having Mindy involved you know made it even more organic and funny and being able to
03:16have that moment together was so wonderful because anything with Ashley Park is just sweeter but being
03:22able to have it be this I'm gonna just change my life and change my hair and I'm having a bit of a
03:28panic attack and an identity crisis but I'm gonna do it anyway and it's I'm fine I'm totally fine there
03:33are moments I miss the bangs I wasn't the best at like maintaining or drying them especially when
03:38you're working out and they get a little sweaty or that it's humid and they didn't always look the
03:43best I just felt kind of chic with them not kind of I felt very chic I felt very chic with them this
03:49is one of my all-time favorite things I've been able to wear this is Givenchy it's at the Met Gala
03:56Heavenly Bodies and Lilette made this amazing headpiece and this cross was a very last-minute
04:05addition we got Cartier to give us a cross because I thought well I want a prop I want something to
04:12hold and everyone was gonna have their own spin on how they took the theme and it was Fiona Styles my
04:18makeup artist idea to put the tear and Gregory Russell to do the headpiece and the I never look in the mirror
04:25when I'm working with them because I just say do what you want I trust you and so this entire look
04:31was born from the outfit and then it just like blossomed into this look that I was not expecting
04:36and it's hands down one of my favorite things I've ever been able to wear so I actually fit this outfit
04:43in Tokyo hours after I fit it I ended up at the hospital because I choked on a tomato which is a
04:49whole nother story which we don't have time for but you know the entire rest of the trip I had a tomato
04:54lodged in my throat for a few days so this look is season one at the Opera House it's one of my
05:01favorite moments from the first season and probably the show in general it's a Christian Siriano dress
05:07it was a moment for me where Emily wearing all black in season one was a real statement because
05:12there's nothing but color at the beginning of this show for her to go into this experience at the Opera
05:17house paired down was a choice that we all made together it also comes in the same episode as being
05:24called Rangard and you know basic bitch and it was her moment to go you know what I might be considered
05:30basic to you but here are the reasons why that's not a bad thing and why I'm actually very helpful and
05:35I'm very confident and really standing up for herself and to stand up for herself in a way that was
05:40outside of her comfort zone like I feel as if Emily would have normally had to throw on a bunch of
05:47color and a bunch of patterns and prints in order to feel herself and comfortable but this was so
05:51outside of that that to stand strong on her own said even more about her growth even in just one season
05:57it was also very much inspired by Audrey Hepburn with the hair and makeup which I do believe Emily
06:03Cooper revered and was inspired by just with posters on her wall you know it was like clueless sex in the
06:09city Audrey Hepburn and yeah I mean shooting at the Paris Opera house all night are you kidding me
06:15to be able to shoot at a location like this was so special also at the time I remember I was dating
06:21my now husband and he came to set and it was just one of those kind of magical nights where we ran around
06:25the Paris Opera house together which was really special this girl's not afraid to show a little skin
06:29this was the Paris premiere of season three wearing Saint Laurent I was very excited to wear this I
06:36loved this collection so much not gonna lie I was a little nervous I had to sticky tape this area very
06:43specifically it was also freezing winter time in Paris I just love this so much I I was feeling the
06:49bangs clearly I think it was the trip that we had done them right before and I was so excited it was a
06:55fresh new start brand new look and I think in this moment I was like I knew that it's the Emily I wanted to
07:01bring into season three so I felt like I was kind of channeling this new new vibe new era I loved the
07:08matching Cartier cuffs that were vintage they came with a guard who followed me all night long this is
07:14when Emily is at Sacre Coeur this dress is an iris app fell for H&M which it's really important on this
07:20show that we get to mix high and low and that we are inspired by things that are on runways and also in
07:28ready-to-wear and also in stores and so to make it accessible to everyone is really important
07:34Iris also designed another piece that I wore in this same season
07:40it was a purple outfit purple
07:42shrug and I remember messaging her on Instagram and she got back to me and we spoke a little bit about the show and about
07:50her work
07:51I was just always so inspired by her and she always made me laugh and I was so sad when she passed even for the
07:57small interaction we had it was so nice to have her work in the show it just made me smile it always made
08:04me smile and it's so easy to wear especially with these really chic fun high boots Emily's fashion in
08:10season four well we shot it in the winter fall and winter so that was really interesting this year to get
08:19to incorporate more coats and tights and boots hats scarves gloves you know all the things that we love to be cozy in
08:25but also remembering that Emily is very much about fashion I I love to be cozy and warm so this season we got to
08:32do that and you know we have like Christmas and things like that so just getting a new color palette in there as well
08:38Emily wears a lot more pantsuits this season which I'm very excited about because I think that shows a new form of confidence for her there's
08:46there's different color palettes like I said that we wear that I think I shied away from in other seasons and
08:52also just in general as Lily because I don't always think that colors work well with my fairer skin or I don't know it's
08:58it's been interesting to kind of experiment more with that so winter wear is in so she is in Saint-Tropez season two
09:06everything here is vintage which is this is one of the fun vintage moments that I love where they collaborate and
09:13throw together a bunch of different designers the gloves are by Seymour which is a company that Patricia
09:19found and actually had make a bunch of gloves made for this season and it kind of became the
09:25the accessory of the season for Emily and we'd throw them on every once in a while just to kind of like
09:30funk up an outfit and I actually think it works perfectly with this even though originally I was like
09:34Patricia do we do we need a glove in this moment she's just arrived in Saint-Tropez and she's like
09:38we need a little bit of an edge and whatever she says I was like okay I'm gonna lean in you guide the
09:43way this was Emily's um way of saying okay I'm I'm on vacation mode but I'm still gonna be working as
09:51always and she had a new color palette and kind of this French Riviera glam aesthetic that she wanted to
09:58go for so the scarf on the head felt very cinematic for this moment of getting off the train I have
10:06that wig I have the wig I remember when Gregory was like do we want to keep the wig I was like
10:15yeah because like why not but it's not the like I've ever worn it again I don't think I gave it back
10:20to you did I give it back to you no she's somewhere in a in a box somewhere this is a Jean-Baptiste
10:26Fully uh outfit for the Met Ball I do this series on Instagram after each Met Ball at the end of the
10:33night in a bathtub I remember this one being one of the harder ones to pose in a bathtub because this
10:38was massive I mean it really took up a lot of circumference and getting in and out of the bathtub
10:43was was quite difficult and the shoes were very high because this was very very long so my shoes were like
10:49monsters this is like a prime example of when Marilyn shows me all these hangers and then tells
10:58me it's all in one outfit and I'm I'm like what all this is gonna be in one look I mean the colors
11:03the patterns the textures the prints and then when you see it all together you go oh of course of course
11:08that makes sense in an outfit but that's when I put my hands up and go like I trust you I love you
11:12you guide the way it became to me one of my favorite outfits actually because it was so
11:17representative of Emily's personality and it started to be in that more I don't want to like
11:25overuse the word chic but that kind of slimmed down even just in the um the shape of the outfit having
11:31this coat on top of it having that primary color kind of surrounding and hugging all the patterns almost
11:38made it more digestible for someone looking at the screen so it's not just too overwhelming the
11:44mismatched earrings is something that Marilyn and I do all the time we had one outfit where I liked
11:51two different earrings so much and that we were like this one or this one this one or this one
11:57I was like god why can't we just wear both and she's like yeah why not and so they make no sense
12:04it's almost like two personalities where you'd be like oh talking here and then like talking here
12:07but it totally makes sense and so we started wearing one longer and one shorter in this season
12:14and then we started wearing drastically different shapes and sizes uh last season and then this season
12:19we do the same with a bit of a twist so I think that became a little ism of Emily's where it's like
12:26it's okay not to be symmetrical and perfect I found more of myself in Emily this season seeing Emily's
12:32confidence rise in her job and taking new risks in fashion new risks that some people might think
12:38are not as risky as her first ones that Emily is more risky so being more pared down and minimalistic
12:45is more risky to Emily and that's a little bit more closer to home for me so I'm excited for people to
12:50see the transition this season and I'm I'm proud of it and I did want to steal a lot of items but sadly I
12:56never get to I never get to well I hope you guys enjoyed being inundated with so many versions of
13:04of me all my sides of my personality um no truly I hope you enjoyed getting a look back at some of
13:10my favorite looks I know I did I'm constantly inspired by things I've worn and the designers
13:15I've been able to work with and my my glam team and of course my amazing Marilyn Fatusi costume designer
13:21family in Paris so it's been fun for me to look back and I hope it has been for you too