Elton John Breaks Down 14 Looks From 1968 to Now | Life in Looks | Vogue

let's start from the beginning a very good place to start hello I'm

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you may not have guessed but I'm here come on um ah God I was very young there and that was probably all I could afford and it showed the The pants are very flared, so it was obviously taken in the late '60s. I think it was apparently my first publicity photo and it was obviously very well received. I don't remember it being advertised anywhere. I don't recognize myself. Face me, but I'm very, very young and very, very naive and obviously have no idea what's coming in the next 50-odd years.

Everywhere we went, we picked up badges and the badges were sewn on by members of the band's wives, I remember. trying to wear this suit at disneyland and we had special passes and it was very exciting and I was very happy and then we got to disneyland and they said oh you can't come here with these badges on your suit and nothing of they are really offensive now let me talk about denim for a while I used to wear denim in the early 70's and I absolutely hated it now I think every piece of denim in the world should be burned I hate it I hate it cancel it ah this is in good taste this was when I played for my football club ​​Watford Football Club, before I became president.

I've been a fan of Watford Football Club since I was six, so I played a gig at Vicarage Road, where the ground is. It was very emotional for me and obviously these were the football team colors, the outfit, I don't know who did it, probably Annie Reevy, I look like a matador who just had one too many drinks and stumbled into a concert. I don't know, I like the glasses, the glasses are great, it was a very important day and that outfit was meant to show my love for the club. Oh, I remember this in Las Vegas and there's the fabulous Diana Ross on the right and sharing being sharing on the left. and me stuck in the middle and my outfit was bob mackie, the actions were definitely bob mackie, not sure about diana's and all three artists are still going strong, appreciate diana and me, it's quite a lovely photograph for three people that have stayed. successful as you can see this was the era of platform shoes and I'm obviously looking to buy a new pair of shoes that day because I don't have any and my outfit is very tasteful with those cute shorts, the hat and the glasses. with the feathers I think so, I always said that if I were a woman I would spend all my money on bags, shoes, accessories because they are just ridiculous, I mean, men's shoes have become so good over the years and they should be horrible, but the of woman. accessories are so amazing and men are catching up now.

I loved my success in the early days and I loved dressing up and I loved clothes. This is a photo of me enjoying my things and obviously there are many things to enjoy. Aha, Hollywood Walk. of fame when I started on Hollywood Boulevard, which was a beautiful day, I couldn't believe I was getting a star on Hollywood Boulevard so early in my career, the suit is Bob Mackie and I think there's a badge on the star from the people who He had already been on the walk of fame. Glasses played a huge role in my career because I was born a little nearsighted.

The glasses that were available in England were not very good when I came to America in 1970 and found this store. I called Opti Boutique on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. I became crazy. I took glasses to a new level with that store. I got implants. I don't have to wear glasses, but I like to wear glasses, these don't have lenses and I decided. Now I'm partnering with Walmart to make a line of Elton John glasses because a portion of the profits go to the Ellen Donates Foundation and you know Bob Mackie's outfit is to die for and I wish I had the same waistline now, oh, speaking of Bob. mackie, this is the kind of thing where you go to the grocery store and when you got dressed to go on stage you felt like you were ready for a show and if you weren't ready for a show in this outfit you would never do it.

Be prepared, but it's part of the British psyche. You look at Mick Jagger and you look at Mark Barlon, Rod Stewart and David Bowie. We all had this desire to go on stage and when you put on the costume, you are ready to perform. Um, I was never able to go on stage and look normal or, you know, as normal as one could, it was me who evolved into the crazy cap artist that I became. This outfit is one of my favorite outfits of all time. It's called the giant chicken. suit this is the one I wore on the Muppet show.

I don't know, this could be from the Muppet Show because I don't normally play a white piano, so it was made by Bill Whitton, who was an amazing designer in the early 1970s. and it was a lot of fun to use, I mean, it used to have feathers. in the mouth when he sang and it was very heavy and this was reused several times in the movie Kingsman 2 and also when I just did a commercial in America with some nasaex and he wore that suit and I wore one of his suits but this was another thing, it was funny, nothing like that had ever been seen before, i know bernie told me that my lyricist wasn't exactly happy with it um and a A lot of people just thought why does he have to use that?

You know, I sat at the piano. I'm not Mick Jagger. I'm not Rod Stewart. I'm not David Bowie. I don't move around the stage. I have to do it. attract attention in some way and that was the point for me I wanted I didn't want to repeat myself and I wanted to, you know, become more and more famous to become more scandalous I think Cher did the same we are both kindred spirits in that we just wanted to be more and more more scandalous and I think you can say it's scandalous aha, fast forward many years this was taken backstage at Earl's School in London at a show I did and that's Princess Diana and that's me and Johnny Versace one of my favorite photos taken by Richard Young.

I love this photo. I have a copy in the library. It was a great night and we had a great time and then we went out. I love that set. It really is great and Johnny became, of course, one of my best friends. My clothes were actually made by a few people because I love working with them. This brings back many wonderful memories, it makes me sad and happy at the same time. time gianni versace again and donatella now i think this was taken at a store opening

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ny versace store in london leather jacket leather vest leather pants there is enough leather there to make a chesterfield sofa johnny again became my best friend donatella is still one of my best friends they are incredibly kind, wonderful and inspiring people and two photographs of diana and two now of johnny versace suits made me realize that I lost two incredible friends in the most tragic way six weeks apart .

God, I miss him, I really miss him. I have a picture of him next to my bed I wish he was still alive he was full of love and his clothes were full of beautiful vibrant colors beautifully made Johnny's thing was quality quality quality quality well what can you say? This is my 50th birthday my outfit was made by Sandy Powell, I said I want the biggest wig ever and I want a galleon with smoke coming out of it and she didn't bat an eye and I said I want to look like Louis XIV on acid.

The tragedy of this is that they took us to the party that was only five minutes away in a furniture truck because I couldn't get in the car but the driver took the wrong turn, took the long way around and we were stuck. in traffic going to the party, so I was in the van for 45 minutes, that wig must have weighed 13 to 14 pounds and it was attached with glue, knitting needles, everything how the wig would look and then on the other side it was like Marge Simpson. and I was in agony and I was so angry that we finally got to the uh hammersmith palais where the party was and they got out of the van and I'm leaving and when they saw my face I went to say hello and luckily I had the good one It made sense knowing that there was another suit waiting for me changed with another wig that wasn't as heavy.

I didn't even say hello to anyone as I went and just went upstairs and changed my clothes because I was in a lot of pain. That's what vanity will do for you and vanity almost killed me that night, but it's the one of all the outfits, oh yeah, me and Gaga at the Grammys, that's an Armani tuxedo that I'm wearing. It's the only time I've worn Armani Dios. I love her, she is a godmother to our two children, she is so great, I love her to death, we have had so much fun together when she first came to my house where you are now and she couldn't get through the front door because her heels They were too big and her hat was too high and I had a big front door and she got on the plane like that, she has that ability to look so over there and then she

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so classic too, I mean, she would wear her movie comes out and when she's on the red carpet she

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amazing and then she can just look she goes to the meatball and she looks like something else you know from Venus or Mars and she's just an inspiration to me oh make a liver what a beautiful woman. great guy another woman with fire in her belly she was so good so professional so glamorous i mean look at that dress i think it's a balenciaga i'm not sure look at those earrings look at this hair look at everything i'm wearing gucci jacket which is nice and Then, thanks to that meeting, we became friends and she was able to sing on an album called Cold Heart, which has probably been one of my most important singles of my entire

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, a very special day and she is a very special woman.

This was in Paris and Charlie Puth did this song, we did another song from the lockdown session called after all and this is a Gucci suit they made me for the occasion with a beautiful cotton shirt and this was the first thing I made. Really wise since March 7, 2020 in Australia so it was lovely to play in front of about 50,000 people and hear applause again because I haven't had anything that anyone has had so hopefully when I get back to the farewell. tour along the yellow brick road that is going to inspire me because I have gotten used to not going on tour after the el jones foundation's oscar party.

Dave and I went to Vanity Fair and saw Jared Leto, who I knew, and then he introduced me. Alexandra and I were already wearing Alexandra's clothes, so we became instant friends. He came here to the house, went through my entire wardrobe from the 1970s onwards and did an Elton John capsule collection for Gucci. He is the closest thing to Johnny Versace that has ever existed. I've ever met clothing designers, I think when you wear their clothes they become a part of you and they become your friends, Richard James, same thing and that's why I like having relationships with designers because you know them and they They know you. and you have fun with them, all the designers I've worked with, I've had a lot of fun with and I never asked them to do something special for me, it's always what they want, you know, it's their idea and I say yes or no, but usually I say yes, God, you could have included a lot more pictures, but we'd be here for another three years looking at what I've used.

Do I regret anything? In reality, there are not some clunkers, but there always are. I'm surprised donald duck's suit wasn't here, but again it was bob mackey thinking "okay, you're going to be donald dart" and I said "oh, good, cool, lovely, a mess, but a fun mess, but throughout my career clothes have been so unimportant without that process of dressing and looking different and having fun I would never have been the artist I became, it was never okay, that was my

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and my appearance, um, I hope Don't be paralyzed by laughter now, but I enjoyed it, voila.