Over the last few years, Zendaya has become red carpet royalty. The actress has joined a coveted list of celebrities who people look forward to seeing on the red carpet due to her remarkable style. With the help of her stylist Law Roach, the Emmy award-winner always reinvents herself with her looks and often makes award shows' red carpet best-dressed lists. During an interview with Vogue India, Zendaya reflected on her best red carpet moments and shared her favorites.
“It’s like picking your kids,” she said when asked about her favorite looks. “Picking your favorite kid, how are you supposed to do that? You can’t.”
“Some of my tops–Tom Ford breastplate were my favorites, Joan of Arc was fun, our yellow Valentino moment at the Oscars. Everybody actually thought that Law came with a leaf blower,” she said. “It was just actual wind that for some reason was only there when I got there. Which made it very difficult to get the shot but we worked it out.”
In January 2020, Zendaya wore the pink Tom Ford breastplate and a long, flowy skirt to the Critics Choice Awards.
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Her Joan of Arc look took place at the 2018 Met Gala where the theme was “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” She wore a custom Versace gown that featured armor on the neck and shoulder.
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Last but not least, her yellow Valentino gown was a moment at the 2021 Oscars. Her hair was long and wavy and parted down the middle. And like she mentioned, she brought the wind with her.
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Throughout the video, she tackled other questions such as what superpower she wished she had and the best decision she ever made in her life. She then answered a fan who asked her where she saw herself in 10 years. “In 10 years, hopefully, happy,” she said. “My aim is to be doing things that make me happy and bring me joy so right now that’s what I get to do currently which is like to act. And that brings me a lot of joy.”
“If there was ever a time that it didn’t bring me that satisfaction, I would be glad to switch to something else and whatever that is I don’t know,” she continued. “Hopefully directing but who actually knows.”
This isn’t the first time Zendaya has mentioned wanting to get into directing. In her 2021 British Vogue cover story, the Euphoria actress shared that she has been thinking about getting behind the camera.
“If I ever do become a filmmaker, I know that the leads of my films will always be Black women,” she said. “I gotta hurry up and figure out how to f–king become a director, man. I’m trying, I’m learning every day, I really am. There’s so much I want to do.”
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While speaking to xoNecole, Eva shares that she’s a lot like the beloved 1994 character in many ways. “Lyric is so me. She's the odd flower. A flower nonetheless, but definitely not a peony,” she tells us.
“She's not the average flower you see presented, and so she reminds me of myself. I'm a sunflower, beautiful, but different. And what I loved about her character then, and even more so now, is that she was very sure of herself.
"Sure of what she wanted in life and okay to sacrifice her moments right now, to get what she knew she deserved later. And that is me. I'm not an instant gratification kind of a person. I am a long game. I'm not a sprinter, I'm a marathon.
America first fell in love with Eva when she graced our screens on cycle 3 of America’s Next Top Model in 2004, which she emerged as the winner. Since then, she's ventured into different avenues, from acting on various TV series like House of Payne to starring on Real Housewives of Atlanta.
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Eva praises her castmates and the play’s producer, Je’Caryous for her positive experience. “You know what? Je’Caryous fuels my audacity car daily, ‘cause I consider myself an extremely audacious woman, and I believe in what I know, even if no one else knows it, because God gave it to me. So I know what I know. That is who Je’Caryous is.”
But the mom of three isn’t the only one in the family who enjoys acting. Eva reveals her daughter Marley has also caught the acting bug.
“It is the most adorable thing you can ever see. She’s got a part in her school play. She's in her chorus, and she loves it,” she says. “I don't know if she loves it, because it's like, mommy does it, so maybe I should do it, but there is something about her.”
Overall, Eva hopes that her contribution to the role and the play as a whole serves as motivation for others to reach for the stars.
“I want them to walk out with hope. I want them to re-vision their dreams. Whatever they were. Whatever they are. To re-see them and then have that thing inside of them say, ‘You know what? I'm going to do that. Whatever dream you put on the back burner, go pick it up.
"Whatever dream you've accomplished, make a new dream, but continue to reach for the stars. Continue to reach for what is beyond what people say we can do, especially as [a] Black collective but especially as Black women. When it comes to us and who we are and what we accept and what we're worth, it's not about having seen it before. It's about knowing that I deserve it.”
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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