Mary Kate Olson reveals all for Elle
Mary Kate Olson sat down with Elle Magazine for a revealing interview! Below are some highlights from her chat with Elle:
Mary-Kate is considered the artsier of the two sisters. Her own fashion sense borders on the eccentric, but when everyone strives to look like everyone else, such individuality is what the fashion world sorely needs. In staking out her style she has become the latest in a long line of fashion It Girls that includes Suzy Parker, Ali MacGraw, Penelope Tree, Edie Sedgwick, and Isabella Blow. For some, the It-ness proved tragic. For others, it was their blue-bloodedness that caused the excitable covey known as the fashion flock to flutter about them. But Mary-Kate is an anomaly in this lineage. She is not only a tastemaker but also a taste macher. And yet she dresses with an abandon that borders on indifference. In fact, her style has been referred to as “bag-lady chic.” “Boho chic, you mean?” she asks. Whatever the word, her look is certainly singular and disproves the dictum that designer clothes must be worn by the deliriously tall, since Mary-Kate is barely five feet without the help of her YSL heels.
Do profit motives complicate or even cause sibling rivalry?
We don’t agree all the time. The way we go about business or designing or making a decision is that we come at it from two completely different angles that at the end of the day, even when we don’t think we’re agreeing with each other, we are agreeing. We’re just getting there in different ways. Unless you’re a twin, you honestly can’t know how close twins can be. There’s such a strength, but that also makes it…” Her voice trails off. “When there’s that much love there’s…” Again she stops. She gives me a wan smile. I attempt to help her explain: When twins grow up and go their separate ways, is it like an amicable divorce? “Well, there’s the opposite of everything, but it stems from love, and it stems from passion. We’re driven people. I do know I can’t work in an office. Ashley, on the other hand, loves going to an office.”
Do you feel you’re sexy? The affirmations you get as a child star are so different from the ones I presume one seeks as a woman.”
“I feel like I can be sexy when I want to be,” she says. “I think all women are sexy. Some may feel it more than others. I personally think the women who are the most sexy are the women who are truly themselves, whatever that may be.”
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