Go behind the looks with Kristen Stewart as she breaks down some of her most iconic film roles (Twilight, Spencer, The Runaways, Panic Room, Adventureland, and more) and explores how styling shaped the character development and overall story
00:17And so I have glovies and a big fall of hair that's not mine.
00:24Wow, he looks weird.
00:25This is funny.
00:26What else?
00:28So like Bella, she's just not much of a dress girl,
00:30especially in Twilight One.
00:32The sweater and the sneakers kind of made it like,
00:35what, I'm barely wearing a dress.
00:37I loved that.
00:38It felt like my prom.
00:39I was 17 and I was in high school.
00:41So yeah, that's a visceral memory.
00:43Thank you for presenting it to me now.
00:47Here's Bella, she's getting married
00:48or maybe she's just gotten married.
00:49I think you take pictures after the ceremony.
00:51It's funny, look at that arch.
00:53I'm trying so hard.
00:54I'm like, hi, I love that dress so much.
00:57I remember getting into it.
00:58It felt like getting into a real wedding dress
00:59because I was being hidden in some room with heaters.
01:02And I was like, it's too hot in here.
01:04And my makeup's melting off.
01:06And they're like, well, we're not going to be ready for 30 minutes.
01:08And I was like, but I'm ready now.
01:10I was like, well, here we go.
01:11This is the time that I can play the bride.
01:14It was, it's a nice memory.
01:16And he looks great.
01:17Yeah, I think if I were to ever do like a classic wedding dress,
01:20this is kind of the one, this is the picture.
01:22I'm not going to do it, but I got to do it.
01:24And I do really, I appreciate that.
01:26So this is a photograph of myself and Jodie Foster in the panic room.
01:31And I've recently watched this movie.
01:32It's really good.
01:33I wore the same pajamas for eight months.
01:35I turned 11 years old on this movie.
01:37I got my period on this movie.
01:40My pajamas were red.
01:41That was a prescient choice.
01:43Clothes were great.
01:44She's so kind of like austere and like sad,
01:48but clearly going to get her like groove and power and mojo back.
01:52And the kids like, you can curse and you can drink Coca-Cola
01:56and have pizza and be happy.
01:58I have very fond memories of that tiny little cell.
02:02We were in it for eight months wearing the same clothes.
02:04Just to speak to the clothes, because that's what I'm supposed to do.
02:06I mean, they are like really defining and perfect for these two ladies.
02:09I watched it recently and I was like,
02:11there's something distinct going on here.
02:13And it might be hard to put your finger on,
02:15but I just was like, oh, I know who these, who these people are.
02:17Michael Kaplan designed this one.
02:19He is also a legend.
02:20Well done.
02:21This is from Adventureland.
02:23I was such a little derpy derpist and I could barely wear my own skin,
02:30let alone these clothes.
02:31I loved making this movie so much.
02:33I still have my games, games, games shirt.
02:35So fun.
02:36I mean, the eighties and the nineties, they're back in full force and the early 2000s.
02:41Yeah, this was so fun wearing a t-shirt in the pool.
02:44That's such a distinct era of time where you're wearing t-shirts into pools,
02:47where you're not just removing the item, wearing a bathing suit.
02:52Somehow this was the sexy option.
02:54This was, he's really going to like me in this sopping wet black t-shirt.
02:58Here we are in Spencer in the wedding dress.
03:00This was shot on a Saturday.
03:02We shot five day weeks and I was really unprepared for like the 12 hour day that we did of every single costume in the whole movie.
03:11Traipsing over every inch of exterior grounds.
03:14I could barely breathe, it was so cold and I was so nervous to hold that dress up with my body.
03:20It made me so emotional.
03:21It actually is quite different to the one that she wore because it looked different on me and we couldn't have the whole big train thing.
03:28And somehow it got closer than the truth.
03:31A really good designer knows how to dress the human being and not lose sight of that human being while telling a greater story.
03:37This was so fun.
03:38This is when I got to play Joan Jett in The Runaways.
03:41But me and Dakota, who played Cherie Curry, got to play around and take all these photos before we started shooting
03:48because we know them in images more than we do footage.
03:51She's just one of the most intrinsically herself motherfuckers it's ever been.
03:55And then clothes mattered, fit mattered, my body's different.
03:58I'm looking at this going, God, you could have done better.
04:00I look at this and I'm like, well, I need an hour to discuss the memory flood and the sort of like negotiation between things that you're proud of
04:08and things that you could have done better and then also just sort of letting it be what it was.
04:11And I was so young and I love Joan so much and I hope she's great.
04:16And hi, what's up?
04:17You see this?
04:19Snow White and the Huntsman was a physical feat.
04:23The armor made me so physically incapable.
04:26It was really fun to put this stuff together.
04:28Colleen Atwood is a genius, beautiful designer.
04:32The clothes evolved in this really cool way that on big movies, usually they're not allowed to degrade and like feels kind of stuffy.
04:38Or even when you do make a choice to like rip the dress off at the bottom, it feels like there's a little tear already and ready to break away.
04:45Like her clothes are lived in, really substantiated the idea that I was playing the please cut this out fairest of them all.
04:52Yeah, I just had the best time.
04:54The sword, the shield is so cool.
04:56Everything was really tight in like all of the imagery with the tree and sort of like, you know, who she was, who this girl actually was as a human being kind of hopefully came through in the clothes and didn't feel like worn territory, like sort of like revitalizing something that we all already loved.
05:10Okay, yeah, so Personal Shopper was all about the clothes too, and about it being not about the clothes in this weird, conflicted way.
05:18I was playing someone in such deep grief and like having such an existential spiral into an identity crisis.
05:25So the clothes being something that she could put on and find stimulus through or kind of even like a little bit of like feeling like she might be alive and not dead through was fun.
05:37I couldn't see how beautiful everything was until I watched the movie.
05:40And when I watched it, I was like, oh, man, you guys are really up to something.
05:44So this is from Seberg.
05:45I've worked with Michael Wilkinson a few times.
05:48He did some of the last, I think he did the last two Twilight movies.
05:51I was so nervous to play this part.
05:53She has an elegance and a sort of poise.
05:56While being quite radical and wild and cool and hot, she was required to be such a lady then.
06:01She's someone that I've coveted as an actress and kind of just an icon for a long time.
06:06So him putting me in the right clothes, it gave me the confidence to inhabit space on that set.
06:13I miss you, Michael.
06:14You're great at what you do.
06:15Thank you for making me better in this movie where I played Gene Seberg.
06:19This is Love, Lies, Bleeding.
06:20Olga Mills is the costume designer for this.
06:22And she is somebody that I want to steal and keep in my proverbial pocket.
06:28She's an incredible costumer.
06:30She understands texture and tone and intonation and everything that everything implies without
06:35having to be super exact.
06:36Like you can tell her a feeling and she gives you the right pair of jeans.
06:40We figured out that I was, my character was definitely a soft shoed person.
06:44She came in with a lot of boot ideas and belts and like leather.
06:48And I was like, I think she's a bit of a nice guy.
06:52She was like, oh, soft shoe.
06:53I was like, yeah, I think that's what I mean.
06:56Choosing the right jeans, you know, it's like so much more than that.
