Julia Roberts Breaks Down 17 Memorable Looks From 1978 To Now | Life in Looks

What's my style? In a word, Edward. Chic and effortless. You know, my style is chic and effortless. I was told that once by a friend, and so I'm gonna just go with that. Hi, British Vogue. My name is Julia Roberts, and this is my life in looks. What will it be? This is me before I met Serge Normand, as is very clear by this haircut. I had no future at that point, and I had no tweezers either, apparently. Look at my eyebrows. Well, I wore this outfit a lot. The jacket, I thought I had a big butt, and that's why I wore that jacket like that in the movie. And why I have a plastic chicken foot as my accessory, I don't know. The funny thing about this dress is I think it was about $20. It was, I think, black and white, and the costume designer changed it up to make it a little bit different, and the boots were really uncomfortable. Marilyn Vance was so great. She made the red dress that I wore. She made the polka dot dress that I wear to the polo match. I remember her to be very caring about how I felt in the clothes, because I'm not really comfortable wearing such bare things, and she was very mindful and respectful of that, and I appreciated that. This was one of my all-time favorite outfits for the Golden Globes. I went for steel magnolias. I did my hair. My girlfriend did my makeup, and I got this suit at Armani in Beverly Hills. I went into the men's department, and they had an in-store tailor, and they tailored it to fit me. I don't even know that people wore really fancy gowns to the Golden Globes then the way they do now, but I thought that I was very extra in this outfit. I could not have known that it was gonna become this statement outfit. I just thought I looked fabulous, and I still have that suit. I can't believe how tan I am in this photo. I'm adorable. I made all the necklaces that I'm wearing in this picture. This looks like I'm at the airport, and it's a paparazzi picture, so I'm smiling through terror, no doubt. Back in these days, there were no fashion rules. You just wore whatever you wanted to wear, and I wore jeans and a white T-shirt all the time. And I think, obviously, wearing this black blazer, I thought I was very dressed up. I'm a little ashamed of these sneakers, I have to say. All these pictures when my 19-year-old daughter sees them, she's like, mom, where are those pants? Where's that jacket? Because now what's old is new and cool again. This was Richard Tyler. Obviously, the suit is a theme in my life, and short hair, cute. Stockings, maybe a swing and a miss. Another little statue of gold in my hand. Always fun. Oh, now, I do not know who this woman is. She's got quite a look here. I'm kind of staring at her. This was at an event in Las Vegas, and one of the few times I ever have shown my belly button in public. I feel really good about that right now, because my belly button doesn't look like that anymore. This was Ralph Lauren. How do I remember that? High boobs, low waist. It's fabulous. Oh, Vivian Tam skirt. I loved this skirt. I had it in two colors. I have a picture of myself and Muhammad Ali from this night that is on my shelf at home. This might've been the sweater that I wore in that scene in Notting Hill with Hugh at the end, because it looks the same. I mean, this is pre-stylist. This is just when you put on what you think looks nice. This is a Cynthia Rowley dress that I bought in her store in downtown Manhattan for the Stepmom premiere. I loved it so much. I just thought it was so beautiful. It fit perfectly. I don't do a lot of strapless, historically speaking, and I thought it was fantastic. When did I get a stylist? Let's hurry up and get a stylist, shall we? Vivian Tam. This was the premiere of Notting Hill in London. I waved and people saw I had armpit hair. It was a scandal. I could scandalize you people right now if I took my jacket off. Oh, Erin Brockovich. Fabulous. So fabulous. The engineering that went into creating this bust line, we had NASA send a couple people in to help. We accomplished our goals. I was very impressed. Disappointing at the end of the day when I took it all off. I mean, look at the little side skin. Sexy. Our costume designer on this, Jeffrey Kurland, who I had worked with on My Best Friend's Wedding, and then he did Ocean's 11 and Ocean's 12. A brilliant costume designer, and he really just found all the right pieces to create the sense of her style and her vibe and the way that she portrayed herself. Sometimes costumes, when they're so unlike what you would wear normally, make it that much easier to get into character. It was a good extra boost into character study. And then I won. Oh, the next page. What did I just say? This dress, Oscars are on a Sunday, and I tried this dress on on Saturday. Fabulous stylist, Debra Mason. Amazing, beautiful woman. Just incredible. And she went to Valentino and went into their basement archive and rooted around and found this dress, brought it to my hotel the Saturday before the Oscars. I tried it on. It fit perfectly. We did no alterations to it, and they let me keep it. People say, how do I know when a script is right for me? You just read it and you just feel it. You go, yep, this is something that I wanna be a part of, and it's the same thing, I think, with any outfit, whether it be super dressed up or casual. You put on a pair of jeans and you go, yeah, these are the jeans for me. You just know. The bracelet, I didn't get to keep, but you know what? Mariah Carey bought it. That's who has that bracelet right there. All right, Riccardo Tisci. I love Riccardo Tisci. Inside and out, this day was so fun to spend an entire day doing a photo shoot where never once did he say, I think I smiled once, and he said, can you not do that? And I thought, we're best friends. I look so rad. This is the coolest moment of my life, and thank God someone took a picture of it. I like my hair like that, too. Here I am at the Cannes Film Festival, and I'm wearing Armani. I am terrified here, very scary, all these people taking your picture all at once. We were there for Money Monster, a movie I did with this up-and-comer, George Clooney. Keep your ears out for that name because he's going places, and I'd never been before because it looks so scary on TV. So there is this huge flight of stairs to walk up, and I just thought, wow, that seems kind of dodgy in these heels, and I just stepped out of them very quietly, and as I was walking up these stairs, I did think to myself, hmm, how will I get my shoes back? It was a statement. I didn't want to fall down the ******* stairs. That was the statement. Oh, look at this. Now, this is one of my favorite outfits I've ever worn in my whole life, this Armani jumpsuit, and look at him. He's such a nice man. I really adore Giorgio Armani. He has been a friend, and he's a legend, and he's a really beautiful person. Giorgio Armani is the kind of person that you can tell he's living his dreams. He's living his best life. What he does is what he loves, and this jumpsuit fit me like a glove. I felt like a million bucks in it. My boobs look good, too. Adidas and Gucci. Do you have to say anything else? Cute guy in the picture. What was his name again? Giorgio and I met for Ocean's 11, and within about five minutes, we were just like, oh, we're gonna be best friends forever, and that's pretty much what happened. This was going into a talk show to promote Ticket to Paradise. It's such a good outfit. It's really good. All right, Tom Brown. I love me some Tom Brown. I love a tie. I love a stripe, a coat over the shoulders. I think an impeccable look. Just finished shooting the cover of British Vogue. Richard Curtis, he agreed to do the interview for the British Vogue piece. He and his wife have been friends for a really long time. He is such a great writer, and there's just no telling what he's gonna write down, but I'm sure it will be witty and clever and very Richard Curtis. After very long days of travel and very long days of promotion, I worked until about 12.45 last night and got up today like it was Christmas morning to do the cover of British Vogue, and we had such a good time. I'm sure, if nothing else, that the photos will reflect the incredible amount of joy that we all felt today. Thank you. This was super fun. I'm gonna close our little story time book here, and thank you very much.