At Home with Chloë Sevigny: Part 1

Your secret best friend offers a peek inside her closet and confirms suspicions that she’s totally cute and rad. Also, pink is one of my favorite colors too so Chloe and I are basically twins.

I Accidentally Spring-Cleaned My Closet

A while back, without meaning to, I accidentally cleaned out my closet. It wasn’t my intention to spend an hour throwing clothes around and shoving things into bags, but what began as my nightly I-hate-everything-I-own-ritual turned into a (very cathartic) rampage through my closet which resulted in 2 massive trashcan-sized bags of clothes that:

A. No longer fit
B. I’ve never worn (usually gift from a grandfather or other extended family member who was woefully misled about what I like)
C. I loathe

That’s not to say that my closet is now sparse or lacking in clothing. (Un?)Fortunately, I’ve always been one of those people who loves shopping, vintage perusing, thrifting, doodling outfits, sewing, etc etc. This love (obsession? addiction?) has resulted in a closet bursting at the seams with clothes, shoes, accessories. I have more clothes than I know what to do with so on February 27th I made a decision:

No shopping for a month.

I made it 2 weeks until SXSW rolled around and I binge-shopped at the American Apparel flea market and then again a week later at New Bohemia. No self control, guys, I have none.

A few days later, as if God had heard my cries of anguish as I tore through my closet like a hurricane, I stumbled across an article about how Chloe Sevigny had decided to stop shopping for 6 months.

“I’m not trying to buy any clothing. I went for six months without buying anything, so I’m trying in general not to consume much,” she said. “I was trying to be happy in my own skin without having to have something new to wear. I’m so sick of having so much stuff that I’m trying to get rid of.”

So here we go again. I’m going to do this for real. If secret bff Chloe can, I can. One month, no shopping.

Starting tomorrow.

Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony

Leather or suede? I prefer the suede, but they’re the less practical of the two, frankly. Not that it matters because they cost $625 so it’s not as thought I’ll ever see/own/wear them.

What do you think of Chloe’s design for O.C?