"I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it"
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Fashion, in Elle Fanning's telling, is less a ladder of taste than a feedback loop: she wore Marc Jacobs once, so she loves Marc Jacobs. The logic is intentionally simple, almost disarmingly so, and that is the point. In a celebrity ecosystem where style is often narrated like a grant proposal (references, influences, curatorial mission), Fanning performs an anti-mission statement. She turns brand allegiance into a casual aftertaste of experience, not a calculated identity.
The key phrase is "vintage flair" - a compliment that doubles as a boundary. She likes Jacobs not because he is a status marker but because his work aligns with a sensibility she claims already belongs to her. "I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff" quietly asserts authorship: the style precedes the designer. That matters in an era when red-carpet fashion is a highly mediated collaboration among stylist, house, and publicist, with luxury brands eager to turn bodies into billboards. Fanning's language resists that transactional script by emphasizing personal instinct over roster-building.
And then she lands on the bluntest possible ethos: "If I see something that I like, I just buy it". It's consumer talk, but it's also a defense of taste as appetite - immediate, private, slightly stubborn. The subtext is a refusal to pretend that style is always serious or strategic. Sometimes it's just desire, and sometimes the most modern flex is making that sound ordinary.
The key phrase is "vintage flair" - a compliment that doubles as a boundary. She likes Jacobs not because he is a status marker but because his work aligns with a sensibility she claims already belongs to her. "I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff" quietly asserts authorship: the style precedes the designer. That matters in an era when red-carpet fashion is a highly mediated collaboration among stylist, house, and publicist, with luxury brands eager to turn bodies into billboards. Fanning's language resists that transactional script by emphasizing personal instinct over roster-building.
And then she lands on the bluntest possible ethos: "If I see something that I like, I just buy it". It's consumer talk, but it's also a defense of taste as appetite - immediate, private, slightly stubborn. The subtext is a refusal to pretend that style is always serious or strategic. Sometimes it's just desire, and sometimes the most modern flex is making that sound ordinary.
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