Everyone has a favourite outfit they like to keep squirrelled away as a memento.
After 30 years at the top of the fashion game, Cindy Crawford has a walk-in wardrobe full of them.
Now the supermodel has given fans a glimpse inside – and revealed the fascinating stories behind the iconic outfits.
The clothes – everything from her wedding dress to her first Chanel jacket – are perfectly organised in a grand white room at her Malibu home which contains more items than most fashion boutiques.
Famous shorts: Miss Crawford’s own Levi jeans were cut off for a 1992 Pepsi Super Bowl ad
In a video tour of the wardrobe for Vogue, Miss Crawford, 51, explained how the John Galliano slip dress she wore to wed her second husband, Rande Gerber, 55, was picked out by a stylist who knew nothing of the occasion.
The model could not go ‘wedding shopping’ as she did not want to give away the news the pair were engaged, so she pretended to a stylist friend that she needed something to wear to a black and white party.
He came to the house with a collection of white dresses and black dresses and the model instantly fell in love with a £900 John Galliano dress.
She said: ‘The second I saw this… it was just perfect because my husband’s like a leg man and we were getting married in the Bahamas on the beach so I wasn’t wearing shoes or anything.’
Wedding dress: Worn at her 1998 wedding in the Bahamas to businessman Rande Gerber, she went against the grain and chose to wear a short slip dress by John Galliano – ‘the most sentimental piece of clothing I own’
Miss Crawford, who graced the cover of Vogue for the first time in 1986, also showed the Versace bandage dress she wore to the VMAs in 1992
The model, who married businessman Gerber, 55, in 1998, added: ‘And it felt vintage even then and now for sure it does. I had visions of wearing this on my 20th anniversary so who knows, next year.’
Miss Crawford, who graced the cover of Vogue for the first time in 1986, also showed the Versace bandage dress she wore to the VMAs in 1992.
Versace bandage dress: Worn at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. She said: ‘It was one of those dresses that made an impression’
The star, who was hosting MTV show House of Style at the time, had asked to borrow the striking skin-tight dress after she became ‘obsessed’ with when she saw it on the runway.
‘I think this dress, people really remembered it’, she said.
‘It was one of those dresses that made an impression. And of course, now this is one of the dresses Kaia (her 16-year-old daughter) is like: “Where have you been hiding this? I want that dress?”’
Miss Crawford, whose California home boasts an infinity pool and a Jacuzzi, also kept the shorts she wore for an iconic Pepsi super bowl advert 25 years ago.
The commercial showed two boys gawping at her as she drank a can of the sugary drink while wearing a pair of tiny denim shorts and a white bodice.
But Miss Crawford revealed the statement shorts were simply made by cutting her own pair of jeans.
Holding the denim cut offs up to the camera, she said: ‘When we were deciding what my wardrobe would be, I don’t know, somehow it was just like “Let’s just cut off her jeans.”
‘And you know how your own jeans always fit you the best? It was perfect. They just cut them off on the shoot and we put a white bodysuit with it and that was the iconic look from this shoot.’
Meanwhile, the Miss Crawford tried on the first Chanel jacket she ever owned, which was given to her by Karl Lagerfeld after a show.
She said: ‘When I was a young model, certain designers, well for instance like Chanel, Karl… would go “go to the store and take whatever you wanted”.
‘I just wanted to get the most classic Chanel jacket. I’m sure the shape is not exactly of the moment. I could probably have it tailored or something. So this was like my very first Chanel jacket.’
Miss Crawford, who appeared on the cover of 50 Vogue magazines during her career, also showed her Fendi, Louis Vuitton and Judith Leiber evening bags which she described as ‘like jewellery’.
She also has an extensive jean collection which is organised by colour and style. It includes a black pair with studs and a leather pair.