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"  Two hours before I meet Chlo\u00EB Sevigny, a message pops up on my phone titled APOCALYPSE: 2011. I open it and discover that in addition to birds falling from the sky, there&amp;#039;s further proof the world is ending. Attached is a photo of Sevigny sitting courtside at a Knicks game, seemingly on a date with Jersey Shore&amp;#039;s Pauly D.  When I arrive at Sevigny&amp;#039;s home, a quaint ground-floor flat on a leafy street in New York&amp;#039;s East Village, she howls with laughter at the photo. While she found Pauly D sweet and his hair fascinating (&amp;quot;like a mixture of egg yolk and Elmer&amp;#039;s glue&amp;quot;), the delicious irony is not lost on her. &amp;quot;Wouldn&amp;#039;t that be the strangest couple ever on earth?&amp;quot;  Yes, it would. Sevigny, 36, has been the reigning queen of anti-Hollywood, East Coast cool for nearly two decades, since starring in Larry Clark&amp;#039;s 1995 film Kids. Her subsequent indie roles (including 1999&amp;#039;s Boys Don&amp;#039;t Cry, which earned her an Oscar nod) and downtown style only cemented her status, which she&amp;#039;s both proud of and a bit disenchanted with.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m becoming more comfortable with being the outsider, though I&amp;#039;m not sure why it&amp;#039;s still the case,&amp;quot; she says over a pot of green tea. From the start of her career, Sevigny has avoided anything mainstream, even blowing off a shoot with Steven Meisel when she was a teen. &amp;quot;When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;Now I&amp;#039;m more accepting of it because I&amp;#039;m less of a snob.&amp;quot;  What has been consistent is her individual style. In 1992, all Sevigny wanted for her 18th birthday was a pair of Martin Margiela &amp;quot;hoof boots,&amp;quot; with cloven toes. She visited them daily at the store until her parents bought them for her. When she graduated from high school in Darien, Connecticut, she couldn&amp;#039;t afford a coveted Margiela necklace, so she made her own with a piece of lace and a twig. These early looks included but were not limited to perms, metallic bikinis, face paint, and ripped-up vintage wedding dresses. &amp;quot;I. Used. To. Rock. The. Craziest. Outfits. You. Have. Ever. Seen. In. Your. Life,&amp;quot; she says, slapping her kitchen counter for emphasis. This was all before blogs and street-style fashion sites. &amp;quot;Thank God I grew up before all that.&amp;quot; She sighs. &amp;quot;I feel like we were the last generation, and there&amp;#039;s this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It&amp;#039;s all too much.&amp;quot;  Sevigny doesn&amp;#039;t own a TV and doesn&amp;#039;t Google anything, including herself. Best-dressed lists and unflattering paparazzi pictures irk her--&amp;quot;Whenever I&amp;#039;m walking down the beach in a bikini or on a red carpet, all I can see is &amp;#039;What Was She Thinking?&amp;#039;&amp;quot;--and she is fearful of what prospective suitors might find online. &amp;quot;If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn&amp;#039;t be as scared of the Internet,&amp;quot; she says, laughing. She finally caved and joined Facebook last year, albeit under an alias. &amp;quot;I wanted to represent myself online in some way,&amp;quot; she explains. &amp;quot;Just to my friends. I have only a few friends on there anyway, and I have most of their numbers in my phone.&amp;quot; Sevigny laughs when I ask if she considers herself a sex symbol. &amp;quot;Know what I get the most?&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;People say, &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;re so much prettier in person.&amp;#039; I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;#039;Thank you?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Like all girls, she has hang-ups about her appearance. Sevigny&amp;#039;s weight fluctuates between 125 and 135 pounds (though she avoids scales because &amp;quot;I can tell by the way my denim fits&amp;quot;), and she says she doesn&amp;#039;t like her face. &amp;quot;I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I&amp;#039;m right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.&amp;quot; Her fashion confidence, however, is invincible. She was one of Nicolas Ghesqui\u00E8re&amp;#039;s first champions at Balenciaga, and when the little-known Alber Elbaz was at Yves Saint Laurent, 25-year-old Sevigny asked him to dress her for the awards shows she attended for Boys Don&amp;#039;t Cry. She has Elbaz&amp;#039;s original sketches of those gowns framed in her closet. &amp;quot;He sent them instead of flowers.&amp;quot; Sevigny knows that some of her choices have perplexed onlookers, but such scrutiny hasn&amp;#039;t deterred her from living on fashion&amp;#039;s edge--even when, at times, she&amp;#039;s literally teetered on it. Sevigny once broke her front teeth when wearing a pair of Balenciaga boots, spending the night in the hospital and the next day at the dentist. &amp;quot;It was the worst thing ever,&amp;quot; she says. Not that she&amp;#039;s given up the boots: &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re some of my favorite shoes of all time.&amp;quot; She turned her fashion sense into a business three years ago, starting her own line with Opening Ceremony that&amp;#039;s sold in more than 25 countries. There&amp;#039;s such demand for it that they&amp;#039;ve had to remake entire collections midseason. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not trying to compete with high fashion,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m doing streetwear. Everyone is trying to be so hip. I like that my dresses are a little dorky. I think it&amp;#039;s refreshing now to not try and be so cool.&amp;quot; Her willingness to chill out about her career is also paying off. Trading in her indie cred to play Mormon wife Nicki on HBO&amp;#039;s Big Love won her a Golden Globe last year. Sevigny admits to sobbing backstage after she received the award even though, she says, &amp;quot;I hate it when people get up there and start crying.&amp;quot; By her own account, it was a defining moment.  &amp;quot;I hate to admit it, but it was one of the biggest confidence boosters I&amp;#039;ve ever had. I felt really powerful. I know it&amp;#039;s nothing, just a stupid statue, but I felt like &amp;#039;Good for me!&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  Still, she is excited about life after Big Love, now in its final season. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never been able to be glamorous onscreen, which I&amp;#039;m looking for,&amp;quot; she says. But not ditzy glamorous. &amp;quot;I want Julianne Moore in the Tom Ford picture, the tragic glamour.&amp;quot; She smiles. &amp;quot;Yeah, that&amp;#039;s the ticket.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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