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Radziwill is also a bona fide fashion lover, with a unique sense of style. We caught up with her to chat about her favorite spots to write, her enviable closet, and her memorable run-in with Karl Lagerfeld.
Carole Radziwill: Okay, so there s this glamorous notion that writers knock out their Great American Novels in smoky cafes while slamming back absinthe. But most writers I know, myself alamo rental cars included, are loners who spend a lot of time in pajamas at home, going through a series of compulsive rituals before opening up laptops to stare at the blank screen. But every now and then we need to venture out among the living. And in those times you can catch me at one of my favorite neighborhood haunts.
alamo rental cars The best place to spot interesting characters and steal dialogue is the lobby of the Mercer Hotel. On a given day you can see supermodels and rock stars, and Hollywood directors taking meetings with their stars. Once I saw Karl Lagerfeld arrive with five cases of luggage, two assistants and a dog. It was like a scene from Dr. Seuss.
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My Levi s jeans, my Balmain leather pants, and my Rick Owens long skirts. I ve recently started to collect printed vintage tees. I have one of Raggedy Ann and Andy in a compromising position from the 70s that I love!
An original Bert Stern photograph of Marilyn Monroe. He s a fashion photographer who took 2,500 pictures of her shortly before she died. It was a shoot for Vogue magazine at the Bel-Air Hotel in Hollywood and the collection is very famous now, it s called The Last Sitting. I went to a furniture show one day looking for dining room chairs but instead brought home Marilyn. I m still sitting on the floor.
During a fight scene between Ramona and LuAnn, Ramona, true to form, stopped mid-sentence and announced that her shellac manicure lasts for three weeks. The next week I got my first shellac mani! I get inspiration and ideas from the least expected places.
I resisted alamo rental cars the pressure to take a side. Instead, I took a position and my position was that I do not take sides between grown women arguing. Also, and this was another alamo rental cars tip from Ramona: I took a Xanax.