It's probably one of my most prized possessions that I
might bury myself in it. I'm Jenna Lyons and
we're in my house and we're gonna go through some
of my objects of affection. You've probably been here
before. If you haven't welcome. I think this
entire apartment was the first time in my life that
I got to do exactly what I wanted. I'd
always had some restrictions. I'd always sort of been
working with constraints whether it be my job or even
my own personal situation. And, yeah, I
wanted something special. I wanted this to be like
my apartment, apartment, not my, like transitional
apartment, but like my apartment. And so I
kind of went for it. Ok. This is
, yeah, this is something I've really never seen
before. It is a Braille Playboy and I can
obviously see, but I think it's pretty remarkable.
The stories in Playboy used to be so good that
they would actually have them translated into Braille so that
people could read the stories, you know, they
had people like Truman Capote, writing, writing for
Playboy, which I think is pretty interesting. It
is a big topic of conversation. Everyone who comes
over, picks it up and it's by far one
of my favorite gifts. This little guy is another
one of my favorite things. This is a gift
that I got from my team when I was at
J crew. Probably, I don't know, 10
years ago it's a crown of Jays, like who
doesn't need their own crown of Jas. These are
also a special kind of sequin that you can't really
find anymore. And then they've been um sort of
patina. My favorite thing, someone thinks there's a
bone in the bed. There is. Anyway,
I'm really into this thing. I do love it
. And I like the fact that it has little
tears hanging down next. It was a big one
. I don't know if she needs an introduction.
She's had a lot of exposure. It was my
first time going to the net ball and I was
very excited. I left feathers all the way down
the red carpet, which I feel badly for all
the interns who are picking them up. I also
wore it to Noel's wedding. And as I was
walking into the church, she asked everyone to wear
white. I normally would not wear white to a
wedding. As I was walking into the church,
there was a paparazzi. It's not my picture and
that picture has been seen across the world. I
think that picture is more popular than I am.
Anyway, it's all hand beaded and hand embroidered by
a company called Shami. They did all the embroidery
and beating for Oscar loa. And they've worked with
Chanel. I, it's some of the most delicate
and fine beating you've ever seen. A lot of
people have asked me if they can buy it or
rent it for their wedding to which I always say
no. Uh It's probably one of my most prized
possessions that I might carry myself. And I OK
. So this is one of my prized possessions.
This is a sculptor. My son Beckett made for
me when he was four. And I don't know
why I love it so much. But I do
here is a quarter on the bottom and he glued
a light bulb and a bunch of staples and a
little toothbrush holder and a screw all together and like
it just makes me happy. It reminds me of
like an art type thing and I'm super into it
. It's one of my favorite things. It's come
with me through every move to every apartment and one
of my other favorite things that's on this wall.
This is the Polar that Annie Liebowitz signed and gave
to me in 20 kind of dusty in 2005.
And I know that because I just found out that
I was pregnant with Beckett. I was in vogue
, I was in the shape issue. So I
was the tall girl and Annie Liebert shot me in
my office and she signed the Polaroid and I have
a print that she sent me as well. So
another sort of surprise piece, this is from my
senior project. I went to Parsons and Donna Karan
was my critic and I was making this Duchess satin
jacket. And she said to me at our critique
, can you make it downfield? And I don't
know if I can explain. I was, you
know, 19, I had no money. So
I went to bed bath and beyond. And I
bought a comforter and then I double stitched it and
pulled all the feathers out in between. And,
um, this is the end result. I just
found this in my mom's house recently and, uh
, look at it still fits. Can you believe
I made this thing the one fail. I had
to cut into pockets. I just didn't do it
. I saw this when I was in Paris.
It was in a little tiny vintage store and I
fell in love with it. What I didn't realize
at the time was the gentleman who owned the store
had really never shipped anything of this scale. And
this weight, it weighs likeÂŁ800 to the United
States. And so I purchased it and my office
assistant, Kate and Nicole repeatedly called it the third
lamp because it took literally 17 months to arrive.
So instead of calling it the bird lamp, it
became known as the Turd lamp. I think it's
unexpected. Like you think this thing to be really
delicate, particularly because it is a bird and then
you pick it up. It's like the weight of
a hippopotamus. And I think that juxtaposition is kind
of great. I also love the casualness of the
way the cord isn't necessarily strung through the center.
It's just kind of dangling on the side of it
. And I love a chord. I'm not a
big fan of hiding every single thing. I like
knowing how it turns on. Makes me happy.
Ok. This is one of my prized possessions.
This is a French, I believe it's called an
Empire Table. It's got a French polish on it
, which I think is unique. Also hard to
find somebody to fix because I've gotten a few stains
on it along the way. My son and I
sit here and have breakfast very frequently, always with
candles even in the morning. And I don't know
, it's just one of my favorite things and I
love the way it feels under your skin. It
doesn't, it's got a polish, but it's not
that lacquered finish that. I think you see so
often in furniture in the United States legs on a
sink are sort of under like no one designs them
beautifully. If you look at what's available on the
market, they all look the same. Of course
, I went a little over the top, but
I do think it's an area that kind of hasn't
really been vetted in terms of design and has more
legs. No pun intended. All of these little
details were actually in the drawing and then after it
was installed, um I took a spray bottle but
settled water like literally saltwater from the ocean and sprayed
it. So I got this soft patina. You
literally anything like unlaced brass with my faucets or anything
, any metal. If you just spray salt water
from the ocean, if you mix up some salt
, it's a different thing. But if you use
ocean salt water, it turns in like 24 hours
and here I did the test of the patina to
see what would happen. So, now you've seen
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