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- 1. HFMYOURNEWMONTHLYFASHION&BEAUTYFIXMay2015hellofashion.com MONTHLY NEW FASHION MAGAZINE 贈1EVERY ISSUE 120HIGH STREET HITS! T H E H O L I D A YI S S U E DESTINATION HOT: THE BEST LOOKS FROM SURF TO SUNDOWN GIGI HADID MODEL OF THE MOMENT DAVID BECKHAM I LISTEN TO VICTORIAS STYLE ADVICE MOST OF THE TIME EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS ON LIFE AFTER THE CITY AND WHY SHE CANT WAIT TO WED WHITNEY PORT WIN!贈1,200 TO SPEND AT RIVER ISLAND MAY
- 3. 23HELLOFASHION.COM HFM INTERVIEW W RealityTV star- turned-designer WHITNEY PORT talks to HFM about taking on fashion industry snobs, preparing for her nuptials and the prospect of reuniting on screen with her The City co-star Olivia Palermo... Lets cut to the chase, HFM suggests. If you had the opportunity to do it all again, would you? Whitney Port doesnt hesitate: For sure. 100 percent. The only negative experiences I had were maybe just the producers trying to make more drama over things. Would those be Olivia Palermo things? Yeah, comes the blunt reply. 油Its almost ten years since Whitney made her MTV reality show The Hills, alongside Lauren Conrad and a gang of LA fashion wannabes. The series spin-off, The City, took her to New York, where our Californian Snow White was pitted, as the MTVs producers would have it, against New Yorks very own Park Avenue Princess, Olivia Palermo. It was a battle of young fashionistas that continues to be a source of debate even if L Dress, 贈2,970, Julien Macdonald W H I T N E Y T h e w o r l d a c c o r d i n g t o . . .
- 4. 24 HELLOFASHION.COM HFM INTERVIEW the protagonists have clearly moved on. Whitney, now living back in Los Angeles, turned 30 last month, and is set to marry her fianc辿 former producer on The City, Tim Rosenman later this year. Her fashion label, Whitney Eve, is in its sixth year, and going from strength to strength. But shes all too aware, four years after the show ended, that shes still required to prove shes more than just another reality star. Definitely, she says, post- HFM shoot. The TV show was amazing because I got great exposure from it and it gave me those eyes (910,000 Instagram followers and counting) that I wanted when I launched my collection but, at the same time, there was a stigma. And that remains, to a degree. We meet a couple of days after London Fashion Weeks end, where she was a fixture on the front rows, while promoting her own collection. Influenced by her favourite cities LAs ease and comfort, New Yorks structured masculinity and Londons colour and risk her designs have steadily won favour in the States and shes confident the UK will be equally receptive (available at whitneyeve.com). Yet, shes honest enough to recognise the fashion world is not always a level playing field. The snobbery in the industry is, she says, kind of gross. Im of the mind every designer, everyone in the industry, should support one another. Her aim is to convince, and shes succeeded so far in silencing the naysayers by producing good product. Then people start to take notice. Raised in Santa Monica, California, by dad, fashion company owner, Jeffrey, and mum, Vicki, Whitney is one of five siblings. She was privately educated at Crossroads School, a favourite amongst the Malibu celebrity set with former pupils including Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson. Graduating from the University of South California with a degree in gender studies, a career in fashion was always in her sights, but it was while applying for an internship at Teen Vogues West Coast office that MTV came calling. The magazines bosses had agreed to allow the cameras into their office, and, well, both they and MTVs producers thought she was perfect for the cast. At her interns interview, she remembers, Lauren Conrad walked through the doors of the waiting room. Id watched Laguna Beach and I was, like, Oh my God, I get what Im on. Im totally on her spin-off show. Over the course of four years, the MTV audience fell for her, so much so that Whitney with fianc辿 Tim Rosenman (right) and with Olivia Palermo at the DVF show in 2009 (below) W Dress, 贈1,112, Natasha Zinko Shoes, 贈845, Christian Louboutin Earrings, 贈348, Azzaro
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- 6. HFM INTERVIEW when she landed her dream job with Diane von Furstenberg in New York, Whitney was handed a show of her very own, The City. Only she wasnt quite on her own enter, Olivia. Early on, Whitney sensed there might be trouble ahead: The executive producer for The Hills, who then went on and did The City, told me that initially he thought Lauren and I werent going to get along. He hoped that, but actually it turned out we became good friends. So then, for The City, I think, they knew Were going to make it, Whitneys a fish out of water in New York City. And Olivias got her act together. Shes like a girl about town so they wanted that whole dichotomy between us. She was always so nice to me. That was the thing. She just has this undertone of kind of being a know-it-all. Then you take that into an editing room It might not have been so pleasant at the time, but both benefited from their so-called rivalry, and both have gone on to make a name in fashion for themselves. In 2012 Whitney became a judge on the eighth season of Britain & Irelands Next Top Model. Despite their supposed enmity, we wonder if shed ever consider a notional Whitney and Olivia Show. Theres an erm, then a long pause, then a question To go against each other all the time? as if shes already exhausted at just the thought. But weve misread her. I mean, yeah, she brightens up. Now it could be fun because were mature. It could be fun but it just depends Im not in a place to do a show about drama stuff. Quite remarkably, given the circles they mix in, the pair has only bumped into each other once since MTV brought the show to an end after two seasons. We were in line on the red carpet last year. We said, Hello, and kind of waited together. It was just before she got married, and thats the only time. Speaking of which, later this T H E Y WA N T E D T H AT D I C H O TO M Y B E T W E E N O L I V I A A N D I B U T S H E WA S A L WAY S S O N I C E TO M E 26 HELLOFASHION.COM W Playsuit, 贈1,257, Osman
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