Arianne Phillips Instagram – What a fun surprise seeing this posted by the great Index magazine , an excerpt of an interview with gal pal @amrairis from a while back a candid recounting of part of my origin story
(I couldn’t help but edit )🤓
#repost @index.magazine
Arianne Phillips with Amra Brooks , photographed @therealsherylnields
“I remember going home and calling everyone I knew, asking them if they knew what or who Condé Nast was. Then I went out and bought Vogue and Mademoiselle and Seventeen … I went straight to the mastheads and got all the names at the top, people like Polly Mellon and Jade Hobson. And I thought, “Fuck it, I’m just going to call them.” So I called Jade Hobson’s office and got her secretary. She said, “Can I help you?” I said, “Yes. Arthur Elgort referred me and told me to call.” And I didn’t realize that that was like … like the Pope … I had no idea. I said I was an old friend of Arthur’s, which was a lie. I was hating New York so much and I was so lonely, I just thought, “What do I have to lose?” They immediately set up a meeting, and I met with this woman who was like the chic-est woman I’d ever seen… I’m thinking, “Oh my god, I’m an imposter; I’m going to jail.” So then she looked at my book — the same pathetic book I’d shown everyone else — and she said, “I have two things to say to you, one good and one bad. The bad is, you’re not right for Vogue. The good is, you’re perfect for Mademoiselle!”
The trajectory of Arianne Phillips’ career sounds like the plot of a movie: an 18-year-old wannabe fashion stylist moves to New York with only her DIY thrift-store design portfolio in hand, scores an interview with the creative director of Vogue and bluffs her way into a job that spurs a wildly successful career including four Oscar nominations. While Phillips’ determination to make a name for herself sounds fantastical, her boldness paid off: Phillips has worked as a stylist for Madonna and Courtney Love and designed the costumes for iconic movies such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Girl, Interrupted, The People vs. Larry Flint, Walk the Line, and, most recently, A Complete Unknown, for which she earned yet another Oscar nomination.
#ariannephillips | Posted on 23/Mar/2025 09:04:38
