These earrings are so expensive.

They have actual real diamonds in them.

And I found that just like so thrilling this dress that you can barely see because I'm wearing this I'm tempted to call it a shawl but the gag is that it's my mom's wedding veil but underneath that is a Betsey johnson dress.

That randy graf and lisa Banes who passed away recently um They bought that dress for me.

It might sound very glamorous to be on broad When you're 12.

But you know the pay I was probably just gonna wear a dress I already had from J.

C.

Penney or something and they went and they bought me this dress.

This was one of the first dresses that was ever loaned to me.

Um and it was very much a situation of like there was a rack of really three things but the fact that this was a perfectly nice black dress that somebody wanted to let me borrow was extraordinary to me.

The earrings I remember were like the most exciting thing because I got lent fancy jewelry.

Like the first time that I was like I could run away to Mexico.

These earrings are so expensive, they have actual real diamonds in them and I found that just so thrilling.

This was Elie Saab this was actually like an emergency replacement.

Uh there was a dress that was being custom made for me and it was getting shipped in from you know Italy or France or one of the fancy countries but it came and it looked like somebody had died, toilet paper blue and just like wrapped it around a basic dress form.

So it was kind of Elie Saab to the rescue because I knew that this was such an overwhelming, amazing moment and I just wanted to feel very classic and timeless looking at this dress and the makeup and stuff.

I remember just feeling like, why would I hold back?

When am I going to be in a musical movie again?

Where by the end of the movie, I'm kind of like the rock star of collegiate a cappella.

I don't know how many times I'm going to have a rock star vibe in my life.

It's not really a thing I exude.

So let's go for the really Bejeweled crazy dress if not now when Oh God, I loved this dress is being that dress and it was like right in the lane where I was like, I can just pull this off that length.

I'm usually not wearing because I'm so short and I don't normally do a neckline that goes that low.

I don't even know if anybody else looks at this photo and things.

It looks all that great.

But I remember on the night feeling like, can I just go and run into everybody that I know because you're just feel like, like I just love my hair.

I love my makeup, I love how I feel and like being really kind of in your body.

I was like, is there somebody I can make out with tonight?

I just feel great.

I felt like such a badass in this dress and into the woods.

I'm playing Cinderella and I assumed I probably would have ended up in a very Cinderella kind of ball gown and I love, I loved that I ended up in this very slick cool with this leather detail around the waist.

I think I also remember going to this premiere and bonding with 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.

It's always just nice to know everything's where it's supposed to be.

I was so obsessed with this dress.

Um this was such a funny one because it's, you know, it's an animated film and so it's just my voice.

My face isn't even on the poster, so it feels weird to be wearing like one of my all time favorite dresses that I've ever put on my body.

Something about the way that it felt this velvet, you know, with this beading and crystals.

I'm really not the kind of person that often wants to like hit up the club, but this was one of those nights where I was like, can somebody invite me to something great?

This dress was heavy, Whatever the opposite of the Oscars Elie Saab dress was this dress was that it looks kind of ethereal, but it was so much beating, I was so sick.

I'm at death's door in this photo, I totally forgot about that.

I couldn't participate in a conversation, even if it was in my wheelhouse, I could not hear anything.

I kept having to try to, like, daintily excuse myself to just like blow my nose in the bathroom.

It was a strange night, like, because I'm going like, why don't I remember more about this night?

Oh right, because I was completely underwater.

I think this was like a vintage Gucci thing, we were trying to find something, because now by the time that it's pitch perfect three, we know that it's this successful franchise and people actually think of it as kind of a rock and roll premier.

So we found that dress and the boots, and I'm wearing so much hair.

I'm wearing bags of hair, but again, if not now, when when am I gonna wear that much hair?

Also, this was me trying to hide my it's a very narrow strip that I have there to keep my out of public view.

This was the Tonys?

I think I was introducing Ben Platt that year in its mew mew and I love that mu mu thing where they're always playing with how seriously they're taking the 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 velour or was wearing earrings um just like that a lot.

And so I was like, oh, I'm so in love with Sasha velour, I want to wear these earrings and weirdly that night everybody was asking me about my look and like I did a bunch of interviews and I gave a shout out to the drag queen who inspired that choice to every outlet that I talked to and nobody ran it and I was like, this is really bizarre.

So yeah, I just wanted to say, I love those earrings and shout out to her, This was ralph and russo and I remember feeling like so happy about this playful explosion of feathers and glitter.

And I was surprised by how structured it was and a little bit punishing.

I will never fully understand why, but I got invited to the Grammys, which is like the craziest, most lovely thing to me and the really severe ponytail and the corseted dress feels like, okay, this is sort of what I am supposed to go through to earn my place on this stage because why am I allowed to be here when you're doing a show that's like about Love and it's called Love Life and to find a dress with this massive pink train, you can't help but feel like, well if not now, when I see I knew I was going to over use this phrase.

I loved the drama of this.

I was on this red carpet, mainly as a producer, technically I was in the second season of Love Life, but I was in like two or three scenes, so I do remember thinking like, oh, as a producer, am I supposed to just wear a black suit?

But yeah, I think it's nice to be in a sort of uh produce Auriol role and still go now.

I'm allowed to wear a pink dress if I want.

Okay harper's bazaar, That was my sometimes bumpy style evolution.

Thanks for walking through that with me.