Raina Hamner, 25
“From age 13, I started hanging things on the wall—postcards, pictures from magazines, pictures of my friends. I used to watch I Love Lucy all the time, and I went through a Marilyn Monroe phase.”
Yenna Christensen, 23
“I would only wear this dress if I were about to get in a cab and go somewhere. I can’t imagine taking it on the subway or walking around too much in it. But it would still be beautiful if it were dirty.”
Melia Marden, 25
“I’m girlie in that I like to dress up. But I don’t know if I’m girlie in a frilly sense.”
Lee Dawson, 12
“I tried putting together different clip-outs from magazines. I put them together and made a collage of hot guys: Ashton Kutcher, Orlando Bloom, Chad Michael Murray. They’re just hot.”
Trilby Hamner, 21
“This room used to be my mom’s painting studio. I got it when I was 16. The dollhouse is there because there was nowhere else to store it.”
Photographs by Erica Shires
Styled by Harriet Mays Powell
Hair by Antoine Ifergan using Phyto products
at L’Atelier NYC. Makeup
by Yuki Wada at Jed Root
Inc. Main model: Ling
at IMG Models. Model: Lisa Davies at Next Models. Manicures by Haven Spa, 150 Mercer St., nr. Prince St. (212-343-3515). Prop stylist: Joseph Spinella. Casting by David Milosevich. Produced
by Lauren Schaefer
at Snap Productions.