It girl

Today, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down in studio with a dear friend, celebrity hairstylist and founder of Way and Mane, Jen Atkin.

You know her from her two fabulous brands, as well as styling some of your favorite It Girls hair, like Hailey Bieber and Bella Hadid, to name just a couple.

Today we chat all about how she got her foot in the door of the beauty industry, behind the scenes of some of her most iconic looks, the immense impact she has had on the industry and building her hair empire.

It's all coming up on Who, What, Where.

Yeah, but terrific role for Dakota Fanning in there, doing some of her best work in goodness knows how long.

Early roles for It Girls' Margaret Qualley and Sydney Sweeney.

It Boy Austin Butler in there as well, doing a fantastic job.

Someone I really enjoyed in this...

Wilder contacted Pola Negri by telephone, but had a difficult time understanding her heavy Polish accent.

He then reached out to Clara Bow, the famed It Girl of the 1920s, but she declined, having found the transition to sound film so difficult that she preferred to leave her film career behind her.

He also offered the part of Norma Desmond to Norma Shearer, but she rejected the role due to both her retirement and distaste for the script.

They were considering Fred McMurray to play opposite her as Joe.

Just like that, the story of the chubby girl who transformed into a total beauty icon went viral.

I became the school's new It Girl.

And that definitely didn't sit well with Tracy, the school's popular girl.

She was not happy and made sure I knew it.

Holy pepperoni.

Mia, is this really you? Look at her chomping down on that hot dog.

Kind of ruined the whole it girl vibe.

I'm sorry.

I

am the it girl.

Honestly, Naya Thorne, I think her look was the most in the brief of torn because it was like, oh, I'm wearing an outfit and it has been torn.

You can see the tearing parts.

New York City at Soho House.

I

am the it girl.

I am the it girl this week.

Thank you.

And the last question, who do you think is the ultimate it girl

and why does she inspire you? Chloe Sevigny.

Yes.

emanates coolness in a totally different way.

Yeah, she's the best.

Yeah, what an it girl.

Agreed completely.

Welcome back to another episode of Affirmations of an It Girl.

The podcast is your favorite It Girl, Brooke Sabree.

And of course, my lovely, lovely co-host and brother, Big Dilly.

Give it up.

So I was intrigued by this description.

Um, and then the work of someone like Lisa Stead, who has a wonderful book called Off to the Pictures that centers on early 20th century film culture in, and print culture in Britain, describes a figure like Elinor Glyn, who's now best known for coining the phrase the It Girl, um, but has a very famous early romance novel called Three Weeks from 1907.

Um, so Stead characterizes Glyn as an early example of a, an intermedial star.

So this idea that, uh, that in this period, not just many kinds of texts, but the romance in particular is crossing media forms, became increasingly clear to me and increasingly interesting.