Anna Kendrick On Her Twilight & Pitch Perfect Red Carpet Looks | Fashion Flashback | Harper's BAZAAR

Like the first time I thought I could escape to Mexico, these earrings are so expensive they have real diamonds in them and I found this dress so exciting that you can barely see why I'm wearing this one. I'm tempted to call it a shawl, but the joke is that it's my mom's wedding veil, but underneath it is Betsy Johnson's dress, that of Randy Graf and Lisa Baines, who recently passed away. They bought me that dress. It may sound very glamorous to be on Broadway. when you're 12, but you know the salary, I would probably just wear a dress that I already had from JCPenney or something and they went and bought me this dress, this was one of the first dresses that they lent me, um and it was very much a situation in which there were a lot of three things, but the fact that it was a

perfect

ly pretty black dress that someone wanted to lend me was extraordinary to me.

The earrings I remember were the most exciting because they lent me elegant jewelry like the first time I thought I could escape to Mexico. These earrings are so expensive they have real diamonds in them and I found out it's so exciting that this was Ellie Saab, it was actually like an emergency replacement uh. There was one dress that was custom made for me and it was shipped from Italy or France, which are one of the fanciest countries, but it arrived and it looked like someone had dyed toilet paper blue and just wrapped it up. a basic dress, so it was kind of Ellie SOB to the rescue because I knew this was an amazing, overwhelming moment and I just wanted to feel very classic and timeless looking at this dress and like the eye makeup and stuff, and remember just feeling why I was going to hold back, when I'm going to be in a musical movie again where at the end of the movie I'm like the Collegiate acapella rock star.

I don't know how many times I'll have a The rock star vibe in my life isn't really something I exude so let's go for the really Bejeweled crazy dress if not now when oh god I loved this dress like it was that dress and I was right in the lane where I was like I could. just take this off at that length which I usually don't wear because I'm very short and I don't normally do a neckline that low. I don't even know if anyone else

looks

at this photo and thinks it

looks

like this. cool, but I remember that night I felt like I could go and meet everyone I know because you feel like, oh, like I love my hair, I love my makeup, I love the way I feel and I like being really in your body. , I thought: is there anyone I can kiss tonight?

I feel great. I felt like a badass in this dress in Into the Woods. I'm playing Cinderella and I assumed that she probably would have ended up being some sort of Cinderella. ball gown and I loved ending up with this very elegant and cool dress with this leather detail around the waist. I think I also remember going to this premiere and joining Emily Blunt over the fact that we were both wearing Spanx because like I just don't want to think about it I don't want to worry about it I want to be able to eat whatever I want at the buffet always good to know that everything is where it's supposed to be I was so obsessed with this dress um this was really fun because you know it's an animated movie and it's just my voice my face isn't even on the poster so it feels weird to be wearing one of my all time favorite dresses that I have ever put on my body something about the way this velvet felt, you know, with these beads and crystals.

I'm not really the type of person who often wants to go to the club, but this was one of those nights where I thought can someone buy me something great? This dress was heavy, the opposite of Elisa's dress at the Oscars. This dress looks a little ethereal but there was so much speed. She was so sick. I'm at death's door in this photo. I completely forgot. about it I couldn't participate in a conversation even if it was in my wheelhouse I couldn't hear anything I kept having to try to delicately excuse myself to just blow my nose in the bathroom it was a strange night because I'm going to say: Why don't I remember more about this evening?

Oh, right, because it was completely underwater. I think this was like a vintage Gucci thing. We were trying to find something because now, when Pitch Perfect 3 comes out, we'll know. It's a successful franchise and people really think of it as some kind of rock and roll premiere, so we found that dress and the boots and I have so much hair I'm wearing bags of hair, but again, if not now, when ? I'm going to wear so much hair too this was me trying to hide my it's a very tight strip that I have there to keep me out of the public eye this was the Tony I think I was hosting Ben Platt that year um it's Mew Mew and I love it That Mew Mew thing where they're always playing with how seriously they take design and I think those are Cartier earrings and I loved those earrings because at the time I was watching RuPaul's Drag Race and Sasha Velor was wearing earrings, um , I like that a lot and then I was like, "Oh, I'm so in love with Sasha Velor.

I want to wear these earrings and, weirdly, that night everyone was asking me about my looks and I did a bunch of interviews and I gave them a shout out." like the drag queen who inspired that choice for you in every outlet I talked to and no one directed it and I thought this is really weird so yeah I just wanted to say I love those earrings and shout out to her that it was Ralph and Russo and I remember feeling very happy with this playful explosion of feathers and glitter and was surprised by how structured it was and a little punishing.

I'll never fully understand why, but they invited me to the Grammys, which is the craziest, most charming thing. to me and the really severe ponytail and the corset dress feels good, this is something I'm supposed to go through to earn my place on this stage because why am I allowed to be here when you're putting on a show which is I like love and it's called love life and you find a dress with this huge pink train. You can't help but feel good if not now when you see it, I knew I was going to overuse this phrase.

I loved the drama of this. On this red

carpet

primarily as a producer, technically I was on the second season of Love Life, but I was in two or three scenes, so I remember thinking, oh, as a producer, am I supposed to dress like a black suit, but yeah ? I think it's nice to be in a kind of producer role and still be like, "No, I can wear a pink dress if I want." Okay, Harper's, that was my sometimes bumpy style. Evolution, thank you for going through that with me.