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"  How would you describe your personal style? My style is based on comfort and practicality first and foremost. I wear a lot of neutral colors and mix in crazy, funky prints. It&amp;#039;s a hodge-podge. What&amp;#039;s your favorite item in your closet you would never part with? I have this YSL skirt I got when I worked as their in-house model for a few months when Hedi Slimane started and I went to the employee sale and luckily bought this stunning skirt from the Stefano era. It was beautiful and it was like 50 euros or something and I will never give it up. It doesn&amp;#039;t even fit me that much anymore and I never wear it, it sits in the back of my closet. It&amp;#039;s a memory of a time and so iconic to have. What&amp;#039;s on your shopping wish list for this season? I&amp;#039;m searching for the perfect pair of overalls, which are impossible to find. I&amp;#039;ve been trying on so many in a million vintage stores and they&amp;#039;re never right. Who are your favorite designers to work with? People I have a relationship with. The people I&amp;#039;ve worked with a lot or people I enjoy spending time with. I love the boys at Proenza, they&amp;#039;re really sweet and making amazing things. I&amp;#039;m a huge fan of Phillip Lim, he&amp;#039;s an all-around amazing guy. I love Dries a lot. I love the way he approaches design. I hardly know him\u2014he&amp;#039;s such a quiet guy and keeps to himself but the whole team there is nice to work with. If you could only wear one designer for the rest of your life who would it be? Probably Dries assuming I could shop from the men&amp;#039;s collection as well. Favorite city to shop in? I like vintage stuff in Paris. Their weird little vintage markets are fun but New York is really good for staple stuff, like being able to go to Uniqlo and get your basics. I feel more comfortable doing that here and then picking up cool, weird things whenever I travel. What&amp;#039;s your beauty regimen like? I use St. Ives religiously. Not sure if it works but it&amp;#039;s a habit I&amp;#039;ve gotten into. There&amp;#039;s this French cream that&amp;#039;s super moisturizing. I usually keep things pretty minimal. I use a Laura Mercier secret camouflage palette whenever I need cover-ups and sometimes brow gel. When you started modeling your hair was really long, any plans to grow out your hair again? I love my short hair. People ask me all the time [but] I&amp;#039;m never going back. It&amp;#039;s so much easier to just roll out of bed and add dry shampoo if it&amp;#039;s doing something weird. What do you do to stay fit? I walk a lot and do Pilates regularly. When you&amp;#039;re flying so much and working it&amp;#039;s hard on your body. Like knees hurting at 23 should not be happening. I felt Pilates was really good for staying healthy and toned.  What do you like to do in your downtime? I watch way too many movies, Netflix. Taking care of my foster dog has been super fun. I read a lot of books, hang out with friends, see concerts as much as I can. Normal kid stuff. You&amp;#039;re going back to college this year, why did you think it was the right time? I think in the past couple years I grew up in a way I didn&amp;#039;t expect. I&amp;#039;ve seen different cultures and world views. It&amp;#039;s taught me a lot and made me want to go back to school whereas before I felt I had to do it. Now I feel I can apply everything I&amp;#039;ve learned and it seems like a perfect time. I love this job so much when I have other things to do with it. You appreciate it a lot more when you have other things you&amp;#039;re devoting your time to. Will school be a priority over modeling? Yes, definitely. I tried to go back a few years ago to NYU and it blew up in my face. I was hardly in any classes, constantly emailing professors about having to miss class. This time school will have to be the priority. I feel I shouldn&amp;#039;t have gotten anything I&amp;#039;ve gotten the past few years. It&amp;#039;s so random and I&amp;#039;m so lucky. I&amp;#039;m really appreciative of everything I have and now I know I need to go back to real life. I would feel dishonest riding it for too long. What are you going to study? And what do you imagine yourself doing? Environmental science. I really would like to have an environmental firm that would employ different types of scientists that would do consulting for building a greenhouse, or for a government, something all-encompassing\u2014a place for people to go to for all those resources. The thought of being in a lab is fascinating but I&amp;#039;m really interested in the way different cultures approach wastefulness. My whole college essay was about wastefulness in the fashion industry and tying that into how different people in the world feel about that. Any favorite moments in your career thus far? There&amp;#039;s been a lot. Not necessarily things of notoriety. The ones I&amp;#039;ve enjoyed most are working with great people and feeling like we created something beautiful, creative and interesting. I really enjoyed working on the Helmut Lang campaign a few years ago. Also, I worked with Paulo Reversi a few years ago too and I found him to be one of the most fascinating people. We had wine at lunch and sat on the patio and he&amp;#039;s got all this film. That was a nice experience. Have you had any embarrassing moments? So many. I&amp;#039;ve tripped, fallen, made a fool of myself so many times. Not realizing who important people are when I&amp;#039;m talking to them. That happened a lot when I first started. Any fun summer plans? So many. My agency&amp;#039;s [Supreme Management] a bit bummed I&amp;#039;m going to be gone all summer. I just went to Coachella, I went to South Africa, I&amp;#039;m going to Hawaii for a friend&amp;#039;s wedding and my sister is studying abroad in France this summer so I&amp;#039;m going to go over there and go on a college student euro trip. which I&amp;#039;m so excited about. We&amp;#039;re going to go to Greece and hop trains around and do the trip I&amp;#039;ve never gotten to do\u2014the whole hostel/train thing is really exciting. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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