It’s a gray morning andChloe Sevignyis hungover.
Things are moving slowly.
Her toddler needs to be at preschool by too-early a.m.
The martinis are still being metabolized.
But they do not stop, have never stopped, Sevigny from rising.
And then she takes a shower.
Alaïa dress. Chopard earring styled as a pendant. Patricia Von Musulin necklace. To create a similar makeup look: Artist Color Eyeshadow in Pinky Beige and Rouge Artist Intense Color Beautifying Lipstick in Passionate Fig by Make Up For Ever.
Chopard earring styled as a pendant.
Patricia Von Musulin necklace.
(Some of them also know Dorothy.)
Collina Strada top and bloomers. Panconesi necklace. Bulgari bracelet worn as an arm cuff. All-In Studio glove. Rene Caovilla heels.
“She doesBella Hadid,” Sevigny says, by way of approval.
Sevigny describes her hair color as “fake-natural"blondebut does not offer an explanation for that term.
“She’s really sexy.
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Really cute staff,” Sevigny says, again, by way of approval.
“She’s inallthe magazines.”
What was even the point?”
Chanel jacket, shorts, earrings, and necklace. Manolo Blahnik heels.
Collina Strada top and bloomers.
Bulgari bracelet worn as an arm cuff.
At the end of her shower, she does a quick rinse in ice-cold water.
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“It’s like a cold plunge.
To close your follicles,” she says, with the confidence of a lecturing astrophysicist.
Frequent readers ofAlluremay recognize this as Skin Care Myth #1, but I don’t challenge her.
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Sevigny considers her face too big or too masculine.
Her husband, the gallerist Sinisa Mackovic, wears all black and has terrific eyebrows.
“Mommy is not a jungle gym!”
Heather Huey headpiece
Sevigny gently reminds Vanja he is trying to summit her, but cannot get past Base Camp 2.
Chanel jacket, shorts, earrings, and necklace.
Guest, and “producing some things for some friends.”
Marc Jacobs dress. Heather Huey headpiece. Cartier earrings. Gianvito Rossi shoes.
“A lot of favors, for the most part.”
She stresses that she does not like to do it.
“I’d rather just be the creative.
She lets out a hearty, serotonin-inducing laugh.
“It was insane.”
What else are friends for anyway?
Sevigny doesn’t like to wear foundation or concealer.
Audiences across the world are shocked when she says, “Sure.”
She gazes at her nails wistfully, as if saying goodbye before they are lost forever.
She’s trying to remember which shade of Essie’s 40 pale pinks was painted on her forFeud.
Then she looks at my nails, which are too unfortunate to describe here.
Then she looks at me.
“I thinkyouneed amanicure.”
We locate our umbrellas and bound into the terrible afternoon.
McInerney’s pronouncement that Sevigny was “the coolest girl in the world,” stuck fast.
The question, “What are you wearing?”
In context, it does look like a design feature.
Is she excited by the current state of fashion?
She likes the new Margiela, J.W.
She loved the clothes she saw in Washington Square Park during that first tourist-less pandemic summer.
A few decades ago, she was a part of the youth spectacle in the Square.
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Heather Huey headpiece
The movie hadn’t yet been released whenThe New Yorkercame knocking.
“Chloe can speak with some confidence about what’s happening in the street,” McInerney wrote.
“Some say Chloe is what’s happening in the street.”
Richard Avedon shot Sevigny for the story, but the photo never ran.
“Can you imagine saying that to a 19-year-old?”
she asks, still disbelieving.
A few years later, on set with David Bailey for BritishVogue,he told her the same thing.
Sevigny projects the kind of confidence that might have told both of them to fuck off in perpetuity.
A cursory scroll through her Instagram confirms this preference.
“It’s too hard to get old onscreen.
It’s not fun.
I’m not opposed to bits and bobs here and there.”
Sevigny has appeared in over 70 films and TV shows.
She is more than well-acquainted with the aesthetic demands of show business.
Also, she was wearing Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquiere.
Sometime after the incident, a visit toDr.
Michael Apa, perhaps New York’s finest veneer installation specialist, restored her grin.
She has come a long way from not thinking about teeth.
“This high-def TV is not doing anybody any favors.
Even the young people,” she says.
“it’s possible for you to tell when people have uppers but don’t have lowers.”
“It’s too hard to get old onscreen.
It’s not fun.
I’m not opposed to bits and bobs here and there.”
MostlyBotox and filler, she specifies, and mostly on the right side of her face.
In a wordless maneuver on the way to the drying station, we end up swapping seats.
Sevigny finally admits that, no, she did not want to get her nails done.
Our 20 combined fingers are being blasted with cool air.
“Now that I have a baby, going and doing things like this makes me feel anxious.”
Now, all that she needs to feel elementally at peace is waiting at home.
It’s still raining when we emerge into the afternoon gray.
Sevigny’s apartment is just around the corner.
And the blonde woman fromSuccession, too” (J. Smith Cameron).
Nobody approaches Sevigny for a photo or an “I loved you inBig Love!”
A knit balaclava frames her face,lashesshooting forward.
We’re approaching her block when Sevigny shouts, unprompted: “Things I can’t live without!”
She knew I would want to know.
Isn’t that the whole point?
Patricia Von Musulin jewelry.
