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20 years ago, I decided I wanted to have some of those Hawaiian shirts, but you couldn't buy them anymore. So I had a dozen Hawaiian shirts made by someone I knew who was a costume designer, and I used to wear them wherever I went. Over time, I would go to Brazil, for example, people would say, oh, he's wearing a Coppola shirt. People started calling them “Coppola shirts,” and they started to get popular again. As they got more popular, companies started to make them available to buy again.Â
Then, I started wearing dissimilar socks to see if that would become a trend too – I think they do sell socks in mixed pairs now. It turns out that there's a boys' school in England where the tradition is to wear the wrong socks; there was also a famous physicist who wore mixed socks. So I'm not the only one.
Oct 4, 2024
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On a big kick the last few months with socks of all things, and matching them to my outfits. I must have 15 pairs of different coloured Uniqlo socks now.
Feb 9, 2025
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🧦Working in my field I just love a funky sock. I get my socks from one man, and one man only…That man is Sock Man on St. Marks. It’s a classic East Village staple - When you get there, don’t rush, comb the entirety of their selection and keep an open mind. In my early years in New York as an intern and stylist assistant I always picked up socks for my bosses there, and then when I had days off I would go and get socks for myself. I never leave without a minimum of 10 new pairs of socks and at least a 5 minute conversation with owner Marty, who is a cool, village grunge who loves Japanese socks.
Mar 13, 2024
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The most fun thing to do is to play with kids, be with a group of kids and just play with them and make up plays or stories. When I was younger I used to be a drama counselor: and I was in charge of about 9 boys, and I would always have so much fun with them, reading to them and doing treasure hunts.
Oct 4, 2024
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One of the things I love most in the world, that I’ve loved since I was a little boy, is that every Christmas I always get some halva. It's a Middle Eastern confection made from ground up sesame seeds and egg albumen into this heavenly candy. To this day, every Christmas, one of my kids gives me a chunk of halva, but I don't keep it in my house because I would just eat it all. I keep it in Sofia's house, and every once in a while I go and I take a little piece.
Oct 4, 2024
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I never knew Charlie Kaufman had written a book until I found “Antkind” after searching for “solipsist making a movie of his own life” on Google. I figured, well, this book is going to explain my life to me, so I read the whole thing, and it was very funny. It's long, but people who read it really enjoy it. It has this man, this writer, who has a unique mind and after reading this book, my perception of my own life felt completely different than it used to. My life felt like a fantasy being written by Charlie Kaufman – so that was my experience with “Antkind.”
Oct 4, 2024