Jane Holzer’s calling card was her hair: a towering blonde bouffant, teased and flipped over like a cresting wave, that Tom Wolfe would dub her “huge hairy corona” when he anointed her the “Girl of the Year” in 1964. Film stills courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum Photo: © The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. An undeniable celebrity is not an “It” girl. Contrary to popular use, “It” requires not only some degree of fame but also the right leavening of obscurity. “She just seemed to exist in the moment and to not have any grand ambitions and yet to have so much style and so much charisma and so much influence.” Although she remains eternally cool, Sevigny at this point is too professionally established and too well known to count as an “It” girl anymore. “I honestly never thought she would become an actual actress,” McInerney says. “You know, a sort of supreme dilettante.” At the time, Sevigny was a supreme dilettante: She’d appeared in a Sonic Youth music video, walked Kim Gordon’s X-girl show, and was filming Kids with Larry Clark and Harmony Korine. “An ‘It’ girl is an amateur in all things,” says the novelist Jay McInerney, who wrote one of the foundational texts of ’90s “It,” a New Yorker profile of a 19-year-old waif named Chloë Sevigny. She is someone “everyone is drawn to - someone people want to gossip about,” says Patrick McMullan, the nightlife photographer who for nearly 40 years has been a fixture of the New York scene. The “It” girl has been defined not by herself - to seek “It,” at least publicly, is not very “It” - but by her chroniclers: magazine writers, newspaper columnists, photographers.
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“People never know how to describe me - what I am,” Sally Randall, a Palladium doorgirl and post-Brill ’80s “It” girl, told this magazine in 1985. It’s more “It” to have either two jobs or no jobs a bit of mystery is very “It,” and if no one can quite figure out what you do, so much the better. So does a sense of style, especially one unto yourself. “It” girls are primarily young - not exclusively you could make a decent case for Iris Apfel’s having become an octogenarian “It” girl in the mid-aughts - but going out voraciously is a prime determinant of “It,” and a youthful energy helps. There, in a koan and a credo, is as good a working definition of “It” as we are likely to encounter.Īt the risk of saying more and understanding less, let’s add a few details. And they think obviously you’re the one who made the party because all of a sudden, when you leave, the party’s down.”Īll of a sudden, when you leave, the party’s down. “And then,” Brill said, “the party crashes. The question is not always when to come but when to leave - and that time is once you’ve said “hello” to everyone. The best time to show up is the peak of the party.
I go everywhere.” And then Brill laid out, in essence, the rules of engagement: You go out every night. I’m a downtown, uptown, midtown cheerleader. “I think what it means is that I’m a cheerleader. “As a matter of fact, I met Mayor Koch,” Brill answered gamely before venturing an explanation of her title. “How do you get to be? Is this an elected position, you were appointed by the mayor, or what happens?” “Uh, Dianne, tell me about the Queen of the Night,” he said. New York mints these women: famous for being out, famous for being young, famous for being fun, famous for being famous. Letterman acknowledged that Brill was “known in New York as ‘Queen of the Night’” - what had been called, and would be called again, many times, an “It” girl.
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