The mere mention of the words “model’s apartment” could set a young man’s heart racing.
Aesthetically speaking, though, an interior designer might consider the first big-city flat of most budding supermodels a crime scene. Having discussed the subject with professional beauties for months—I know, tough job—the Inquisitive Guest discovered that the stereotype often rings true: Nearly every model admits her first apartment was little more than a closet and that she barely had time to unpack let alone take a trip to IKEA.
By the end of their careers, though, many successful models develop rarefied sensibilities and accumulate elegant artifacts from their epic sojourns.
To investigate the development of their home interiors over the years, we interviewed the models at the debut of HBO’s documentary About Face: Supermodels Then and Now, backstage at the Victoria’s Secret show, at the launch of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and, of course, at Fashion Week.
Stephanie Seymour's first apartment was a loft in the same building as Keith Richards.
On the morning of Fashion Week’s great blizzard, Stephanie Seymour, seen here with Jason Wu, had managed to take her seat in the front row of the designer’s fashion show.
“My first apartment was a big loft, actually. Keith Richards lived upstairs. And that’s why I took the apartment. I had no furniture. I had a mattress on the floor. And, um, we drew all over the walls—I had a bunch of friends who were artists. My landlady wasn’t happy about it. We had a little table, a couple of chairs. And then just clothes everywhere.”
And her taste for interior design today? “I love to mix in modern art. I love William Morris wallpaper. My loft is more modern, more French ’50s. And then my house in Connecticut is a big mix of everything from a Jean-Michel Frank room to a big library, which is all English turn of the century. So I guess I like a little bit of everything.”
Chrissy Teigen had five roommates.
While hosting the Resolution Project’s Resolve 2012 gala at the Harvard Club, model Chrissy Teigen, seen here with her fiancé, John Legend, recalled her first model apartment. “Two bedrooms with six women in them,” she said. “I decided to take the couch, because I didn’t want to share a room with somebody. I had the pullout bed and the TV.”
And today? “I love darkness. We have an apartment down in SoHo: dark, woody, earthy, with big comfy couches, and a very comfortable open kitchen looking into the living room. It’s amazing!
Click here to see John Legend and Chrissy Teigen’s chic L.A. home.
Karlie Kloss lived in a "white box."
Backstage at Victoria’s Secret, Karlie Kloss owned up to the white-box model apartment when she was starting out.
“It was white walls, super-boring,” she said. And now Kloss plans to start over with her recently purchased two-bedroom in Manhattan, beginning with a 20-foot stretch of closets. “I want to do something really warm and very, very chic, almost like a Parisian apartment,” she told AD.
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