(Photo: Brad Paris)

Are you friends with Marc’s muses? Sophia?
Yeah, they come in just to hang out. Sometimes we have dinner.

Last year’s Christmas party made WWD’s cover. What’s in store this time?
It’s at the Pierre, and the color theme is red and gold. Last year we had men on stilts, showgirls like the Rockettes. I had too much to drink—we took pictures with the girls, but I couldn’t kick my leg up high.

That’s nice of Marc.
He’s the most normal person I’ve ever worked for. At Prada, I had to shine the door handle before I got to work, practically. We had to be all pressed and standing straight up and not saying a word.

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