and all my clothes were fabulous and I loved them

and I've spent pretty much all my time naked.

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Hi Vogue.

We're going to look through my looks.

All right, I am ready.

I'm gonna start answering questions without someone asking.

Well, I don't remember exactly where we were

in this picture but this outfit that I have on,

it's red, white and blue and I made it to go to England.

So what stands out to me in this picture

is Sonny's willingness to let me do anything to him.

He would wear anything that I put him in

and he's wearing his bobcat.

I wanted it.

I thought it would fit me, it didn't, so Sonny got it.

But I thought he looked really handsome in it.

Well, this is a big jump isn't it.

The big jump was I designed these,

and Bob Mackie deigned that.

That's a big jump.

This was gold, I'm holding onto something.

Oh I remember, it was kind of like a dolman sleeve,

you know, it was a jacket but it was kind of dolman sleeves

and it was Bob obviously and this was a photo shoot

for the TV show.

- [Man] You were one of the first women to show your

belly button on TV?

- I was the first woman.

When you're married, you can kind of get, you know,

you can get away with stuff and also everyone thought

it was I Dream of Jeannie and I don't think the censors

were you know, digging that deep.

So, yeah.

It was me.

It reminds me of how fabulous my hipbones were.

This cover.

Richard Avedon once told me you're never gonna be

on the cover of Vogue.

The man who picked the covers was named Doc and he couldn't

find any covers so he went to me as a last resort

but I really don't look like me.

Okay.

Okay, this dress.

This dress was the cover of Time magazine

and it was also what I wore to the first Met Ball.

And there I am at the Met Ball with me,

Bob Mackie and my best friend Paulette.

This guy came up to me,

I don't know if he was a photographer,

I don't remember what he was and he said,

how do you feel being naked?

And I said, I feel just fine.

If you look at it, it looks like it's stuck to me

and that's because it is.

I think it was shocking for a lot of people,

because it was souffle, the dress was made out of souffle,

which was a material that was outlawed in America,

you could only get it in France and Marlene Dietrich

had her beaded dresses made on it,

so when you put it on, Bob sprayed it with like a little

hand sprayer and it just sticks to your skin

so it looks like your skin's beaded.

So I think people were a little taken back.

- [Man] When did you and Bob Mackie meet?

- Sonny and I were doing Carol Burnett,

Bob did everything for Carol Burnett and we met,

I think on La Brea or La Cienaga at one of the houses

that you go to be fitted and he walked in and he was so

handsome and he said he was very happy that I was little

because he thought I was huge.

You're kidding, right?

I don't like this dress, and I don't like the hairdo,

and I don't like anything about it.

This was me with my smirk.

First Bob just made the pant suit and then he put

the war bonnet on.

We were on the road, we went on the road,

but this outfit is great.

This was one of my favorite outfits.

This is a picture with Diane and Elton,

I was still with Sonny when I had it so it must have been

in the early '70s, and I'm in the same outfit

and Diana, this big thing is yellow, lots of yellow.

Ostrich feathers and Elton is just Elton.

Diana was pregnant and I was in that same outfit

only without anything.

I don't know were we were, but we used to hang out a lot.

Diane was so beautiful.

This was an unfortunate outfit.

I wore it on TV and I had a knife on that gold,

on that silver chain, well it was white gold,

and you couldn't tell that you could see through it,

but I was kind of ahead of my time so whatever.

This one, this flame dress was one of many.

This was the beginning, this one with all these pieces,

these little dangly pieces, this was for something

on the show, on The Cher Show and whatever,

it was all about flames and sex.

And this picture's all about Egypt and sex.

And this picture's all about spandex and sex.

I had these boots forever.

And I don't know, the pose is just what you do

when you run out of things.

Okay, this is me with a Charlie Tweddle hat on,

got in Aspen, and in my leotards and I as on my lunch break

and I was going to Maud Frizon and the paparazzi came

from nowhere and I just did that, and I'm holding some shoes

in my hand that we walked into this store

and the man said oh if they fit you,

you can have them for 25 bucks and they fit me.

This next one is naked but really.

Well this one was pretty much naked.

Okay, so this is my skunk hairdo and it was the one time

that I didn't wear a wig and I love these earrings.

I don't remember where I got them but I loved them

and I had that tee shirt studded.

This picture was for a friend of mine, Arlene,

and she had a jewelry line

and this was just showing her waist chains.

My fabulous body.

This is one of my favorite, favorite outfits.

I came to Bob with an idea and I said I wanna have a mohawk

and I want to do something that's not actually Indian

but I want it to be so over the top that it's next week.

He came back with this and the beautiful shawl

was the most fabulous cashmere and I loved that.

I loved the whole thing,

and my boyfriend, God bless him, Joshua Donen,

Joshua was so nervous 'cause I kept saying Joshy,

do you care what I'm wearing?

Can anything be too much, he was like, no, no,

I'm fine with it and I walked out at my bedroom

and he almost passed out.

I had the idea mostly because the Academy didn't really

like me, so I thought, they hated the way I dressed

and I had young boyfriends and they just thought

I wasn't serious so, I came out and said as you can see

I got my handbook on how to dress like a serious actress.

Okay, this is look, I won the Oscar.

I didn't really have a speech

because I could never imagine, first of all it was a comedy,

and it's hard to win for comedy and secondly I just thought

I'm never gonna get this and why would I?

I just thought this will be a beautiful dress.

And my favorite thing about it was the shawl.

I lost one of my earrings walking up the stairs

and said oh shit, and I think you can read it in my lips.

And the shoes were so killing me

that I had to take them off.

I was standing next to Michael Douglas

standing on my tip toes.

Whoa, well this is not Bob, this is,

oh I can't remember her name, but she was really nice.

The proportions were not exactly right,

but it was pretty good.

Pretty good.

I loved the idea of it, and I loved everything,

but right where it goes to the crotch it's just not right.

My style was pretty much what I was feeling at the moment,

no matter what anybody else was doing,

I just didn't pay too much attention.

And this is Believe era, and boy nothing goes.

It's kind of a mish mash, except the top little thing,

we were doing the video and I saw this boy sitting

on the stairs of the trailer and he was kind of weaving

this little mono filament things,

kind of plasticity things and he was weaving them

and he was weaving small ones and I looked out and I said

could you weave a big one and he said yeah,

and so I decided to put it on my head at the last minute.

But this whole other thing is a mess.

This is one of my boy did you get it wrong looks.

I loved this outfit, I hate that the top piece,

it's just too big for me.

King Kong should be wearing that hat.

This is what I wore to the Met gala,

and I had another outfit to wear,

but at the last minute I just thought,

what kind of words can you say on this show?

- [Man] Whatever words you want.

- I just thought fuck it.

I don't want to wear anything.

So this is what I came in, except I had a big,

fluffy, puffy coat that my friends at Chrome Hearts

made me and so.

I've had these jeans forever, they are patched over patches

and so I love them.

They're not particularly attractive,

but I don't really care.

That's it.

Okay.

I don't really wanna close it on that.

It was nice for the moment,

but I don't really wanna do that.

So I was told to close the book and I take direction well.

And that's all you get.

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