Tell me about your ensemble.
Well, today is the first day of Fashion Week so I'm not really
dressed up [laughs]. I'm wearing my everyday staples...umm,
mink coat. And I like to wear lots of jewelry, and pile it on.
So I'm wearing all of my necklaces, my little Nantucket basket.
Is this a vintage piece?
It's a Nantucket basket [opens it] for secret treasure. Did you get that here?
I got it in Philadelphia, where I'm from. The jeans are from
a shoot I did and they gave me, they're Joie, with all these
fun buttons in the back. The boots are my everyday boots that
I wear every day! My whole feeling about dressing is to have
a couple of "looks" and then I just wear them over and over
and over again. So it shouldn't look like I'm wearing the same
thing everyday, it just looks like I'm wearing my "outfit."
You know? And I never think something's too precious. I wear
this mink coat like a jean jacket; I wear it everywhere. Where did you get it?
It's an old Bonwit Teller, and I got it at an estate sale in
Cape Cod, where I do a lot of my shopping. You read about them
in the paper Thursday night, and then you get up really early
on Friday morning and go to these amazing old houses and rummage.
And your jewelry?
Right now I'm wearing a new ring from Cartier, an old black
bracelet I got at an estate sale, my grandmother's gold bracelet,
a silver bracelet that my mom gave me and I never ever ever
take off. It's engraved on the inside. What does it say?
It says my initials, "Je t'aime," which means, "I love you"
in French, and then my mom's initials.
Is your mom French?
No, she's just a Francophile. What is this necklace with a wing?
It was actually a party favor at a Gallard party. But I love
the significance of a wing. And I'm wearing a 14-karat gold
chain, but just a junky fake gold Robert Indiana "Love" logo
charm because I'm from Philadelphia, and it's "The City of Brotherly
Love." And I'm all about love and good energy. I think the same
way that I layer clothes is the same way I layer ideas in my
life, which is sort of I like to pile it all on, I don't believe
in having to be one specific style at one moment. I think you
can be lots of things at once. Where do you love to shop?
Generally when I shop retail, it's too, like, "this is how you
should wear it." And I really like to discover that part of
it on my own. I'd rather find a treasure and make it work for
me than have somebody say, "Here's a treasure! It already works!"
I want that sense of self-discovery; it's part of the excitement.
Now with your shirt, is it from a current season?
No, it's really old, the buttons are falling off. I have this
idea that everything should be really really nice, but unraveling
and frayed at the edges. Not that it has to be beat up, but
it should feel comfortable. I hate it when you see people who
are all dressed up in Prada yet they feel like, "I can't touch
anything." Your clothes are there to enhance who you are, not
constrict you.
