Dove Cameron has been gracing red carpets since a young age, and her style evolution continues to happen in front of fans' eyes. Dove has a vision for all her looks, and her meticulous eye shines through small details, permanent tattoos, hair changes, and more. Watch as Dove Cameron breaks down the details behind some of her iconic looks as she takes us through her Fashion Flashback.
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00:00 When they went to take the dress off,
00:01 they had pinned through my skin.
00:04 Didn't hurt, I literally felt nothing.
00:05 There was no blood, nothing.
00:06 But they were like, "What is it caught on?"
00:08 It was my (beep) skin.
00:10 Hi Harper's Bazaar, this is Dove Cameron,
00:12 and this is Fashion Flashback.
00:15 Today we will be looking back
00:16 at some of my fashion moments,
00:18 both beloved and less loved.
00:20 (laughs)
00:22 This is from December 2013.
00:25 Oh my God.
00:27 So what I remember from this is picking it out myself.
00:31 I think these are Citizen's jeans.
00:33 Skinny jeans, very big at the time.
00:35 And then I think this is a Wild Fox shirt,
00:37 also very big at the time.
00:38 And I remember matching my hair bow to my shoe bow.
00:43 This like heavy side part swoop over thing happening.
00:48 Really good.
00:49 The super, super over plucked eyebrows, really good.
00:53 The glitter eye shadow.
00:55 Also very strong choice.
00:58 I've always been a fashion girl,
01:00 clearly not evident in this photo.
01:02 Whether or not it showed up on carpets for a while,
01:05 you know, debatable.
01:06 We're just gonna swiftly move on from that.
01:09 This next look, I did have a stylist for this.
01:12 I feel like you can sort of start to see the evolution
01:16 of the sort of like more romantic, whimsical,
01:18 gothic way that my style ended up going.
01:21 I definitely remember loving this like
01:24 Tim Burton-esque high neckline, lacy top.
01:29 I definitely wouldn't pair it with this skirt now,
01:32 or wear my hair down, or make many of these choices
01:35 that I seemed to think were a good idea on this carpet.
01:38 But I remember at the time thinking like,
01:39 wow, this is a defining look.
01:43 Also this pose, I have to love her.
01:45 She said, "Look at the nails, look at the rings,
01:47 "look at the bag."
01:48 Not a high point for me in fashion.
01:52 So this, I think, is when you can start to see
01:55 my style becoming more so what it is now.
02:00 This sort of like dramatic, platinum, slicked hair,
02:04 and this very gothic cupid doll lip,
02:06 and the strappy, barely there,
02:09 interesting design of this dress.
02:11 I just remember thinking this was very daring at the time,
02:14 like being on the Disney Channel and wearing something
02:16 that felt very sexy.
02:17 Very sexy and very adult.
02:18 I was very excited to be wearing Beaumont.
02:20 Olivier, my husband.
02:22 Love of my life.
02:24 This look came together super last minute
02:28 for my very first VMAs.
02:29 It was before I had attended as a nominee,
02:33 and I was just there because I really wanted to go.
02:35 I love this look.
02:37 I know it's really simple, and especially for the VMAs,
02:39 it maybe feels a little underdressed.
02:41 There's something about it that is so nearly industrial,
02:45 and very kind of Dune-esque.
02:48 There's something about it that is so muted,
02:51 so monochromatic.
02:53 The industrial tie around the waist,
02:55 obviously I love, like an arm piece.
02:57 I love anything that feels a little bit like armor,
02:59 while also this feels very vulnerable,
03:01 like the suede skirt,
03:02 and the fact that it's just a little strapless situation.
03:05 The two materials being so different,
03:07 and the colors being just slightly off.
03:09 I don't know, I love it.
03:10 It like hits the right place in my heart.
03:12 I either like to go all, all, all out,
03:15 or wear something so pared down
03:17 that it feels bleak, like nearly emotionally bleak.
03:21 The tattoo on the foot was a decision I made
03:24 when I realized how closely tied in snakes were
03:28 with historical shame for women,
03:31 but I decided to reclaim the snake,
03:32 and make it feel powerful and sexy again.
03:35 This one was my first time attending the Gucci LACMA event,
03:40 and this was a vintage Gucci dress
03:42 that my stylist at the time found for me.
03:45 And again, there's a big snake on my chest.
03:47 I was really excited about this.
03:49 It was my first time sort of stepping away
03:50 from my previous identity,
03:52 with the strong lashes, and the strong cat eye,
03:54 and the long blonde hair,
03:56 and the sexier thing I was doing.
03:58 And even though this may not seem like it,
04:00 this was like a big night for me
04:01 in terms of being like,
04:02 "Oh, I can do this differently and survive."
04:04 The CFDAs.
04:07 This was a huge night for me.
04:10 I was wearing this gorgeous Carolina Herrera gown.
04:13 This is just one of my favorite dresses I've ever worn.
04:16 It felt so classic, and interesting, and sculptural,
04:20 and I love this very like, campy, big bow.
04:24 I went with Wes Gordon,
04:25 the creative director for Carolina Herrera,
04:27 my other husband, Olivier and Wes.
04:29 My amazing makeup artist did this very dramatic eye.
04:32 We just decided to go full-blown,
04:33 femme, gothic, whimsical fantasy look.
04:37 And it was my first time debuting this hair
04:39 that ended up really being like,
04:40 a big part of my identity shift.
04:42 I'd like never felt more like myself.
04:44 This was like a sort of a visual indication
04:47 of a page turn, that I was so happy.
04:50 This was one of the more special nights in my whole life.
04:54 The 2022 Met Gala.
04:56 I went with Iris Van Herpen.
04:58 I mean, if you could pick one person
05:00 to go as your first ever Met date,
05:02 I'm still like, at a loss for words thinking about it.
05:07 Because not only is she a visionary and a genius,
05:10 she's so magical.
05:12 Also to be like, nearly naked on the steps of the Met.
05:15 Was something I'll never get over.
05:18 I was like, guess I'm gonna be naked.
05:21 Well actually, so this is a funny story
05:23 that I've never told, but they tried to make it
05:25 to my measurements before it got to New York,
05:27 but of course they had to alter it.
05:28 The whole dress is being held together
05:30 by like the finest mesh in the world.
05:32 Like we're talking like spider web thin.
05:34 All of these pieces are metal backed.
05:36 They have fabric on top,
05:37 which is what makes the arm pieces stand out
05:39 and what makes everything hold in place.
05:40 But literally one snag and the dress would be ruined.
05:43 So when they were pinning it on me to alter it,
05:45 we were pinning and I was holding a pose like this
05:48 for over two hours, like just like this.
05:51 It was so delicate that any time anybody breathed,
05:54 me or the tailor or anybody pinning,
05:56 it was like a threat to the dress.
05:57 So we were all like.
05:58 But when they went to take the dress off,
06:03 they had pinned through my skin.
06:06 Didn't hurt, I literally felt nothing.
06:07 There was no blood, nothing.
06:08 But like, they were like, what is it caught on?
06:10 It was my skin.
06:12 And they were like, I'm so sorry.
06:13 And I was like, I didn't feel anything.
06:15 Is the dress okay?
06:16 Get the dress off.
06:17 Okay, that's fashion I guess.
06:19 We were all like, it was kind of metal actually.
06:22 This was at the AMAs and this is when I performed
06:25 my first ever like live lounge version of Boyfriend.
06:28 Within the Boyfriend era,
06:30 like everything that we wanted to do was suiting.
06:32 But at a certain point,
06:33 it was like how many times can you wear a suit?
06:35 So we were trying to come up with all these little ways,
06:36 like mega flare pants,
06:38 sleeves that felt like they were like dripping blood.
06:41 This little bra that goes with it
06:42 and the heavy shoulder pads.
06:44 Like this was the costume for like a year.
06:46 Super comfortable.
06:47 Sometimes wish I could go back.
06:49 [laughs]
06:50 This was the 2023 VMAs.
06:53 We won the Music Video for Good Award.
06:55 This was my very first ever custom look
06:57 that I co-designed with a fashion house, which was Coach.
07:01 We designed this incredible dress from scratch.
07:04 This like barely there dress.
07:05 And I was like, it's gonna just blow away in the wind.
07:08 And again, I'm gonna be naked, but who cares?
07:09 I love this beautiful 90s square cut backless,
07:14 very sexy mermaid-y silhouetted dress.
07:16 There's all these beautiful details too,
07:18 like at the hem of the dress with the train,
07:20 you can see there's like all this kind of gothic lace
07:22 at the bottom and there's like patches of lace
07:25 along the hip bone and thigh.
07:27 - What did you want people to immediately take away
07:29 from this look when they saw it?
07:30 - Looks fucking great.
07:31 [laughs]
07:33 So the CFDAs.
07:35 It's really such an honor to be working with Coach.
07:37 I really love this dress.
07:39 This look is really classic, very me.
07:42 It feels like they really gave me a look
07:43 that is like the perfect blend of the house
07:46 and their aesthetic and sort of my aesthetic.
07:48 Effortless, pared back, classic, but fresh, sexy.
07:53 It was one of my favorites on the runway at the show
07:56 and I was really excited to wear it.
07:58 And then the look that we went for with hair and makeup
08:01 was just sort of like sticking with siren eyes,
08:04 hair pulled back to really show off
08:06 the beautiful tailoring on the chest.
08:10 All right you guys, thank you so much for coming with me
08:13 down memory lane for some of my favorite looks
08:15 and some of my less than favorite looks.
08:18 And my brand new album, Alchemical, is out now.
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