Nicole Richie recently sat down with actress, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley for a Philadelphia Style Magazine interview and photo shoot and we loved the article so much we just had to share! We're pretty much obsessed with Nicole and her amazing style! Below are some of our favorites from the interview. Visit phillystylemag.com to check out the entire article and find out what style means to Nicole, her fashion inspiration & much more! (plus see many more amazing photos taken at her Spring 2014 Philadelphia Magazine Cover Shoot.)
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: Let’s talk about something we both love: fashion. Describe your style for me.
Nicole Richie: I’ve always been someone who’s extremely relaxed in my everyday life. I’m not the girl who can wear awful seven-inch heels all night. I keep it simple—I consider myself to be a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl who just accessorizes a lot. But I try to focus less on the actual items and more on the way they make me feel. I like color around my face because it does something to me emotionally. I don’t like to wear black because it brings me down.
RHW: You have such an amazing innate style. Vogue even said that you exemplify the LA vintage/SoCal look. Who did you get your sense of style from?
NR: My mom. She had this huge bathtub, and I’d sit in it and watch her get her hair and makeup done. There were just shelves of Chanel bags and vintage Azzedine Alaïa skirts and the craziest outfits, because she was going out with my dad every night. And I’d just watch her and I’d think to myself, That’s what I want to look like when I’m older.
RHW: How did you initially get into fashion?
NR: Back in the ’80s, my dad had a costume designer named Edna, and she would make me matching tour outfits out of his excess fabric. We’re talking jewels and sequins, very flashy. She’d let me come to work with her in downtown LA, and she showed me how she makes all these costumes. When I started competitively figure skating when I was 9, she and I designed all of my costumes together, and I just knew that it was something I wanted to do.
What about your daughter, Harlow? Is she into fashion?
NR: She’s more of an artist. She’s into playing with makeup; she loves doing her hair and putting outfits together. She’s just so feminine—and way more girlie than me.
What else inspires you?
NR: I’m hugely inspired by the ’60s and the ’70s. I just love the music of that time and the overall freedom of that era. I love that the idea of clashing didn’t really exist. You could mix prints on prints, you could mix fabrics and colors—and it was more about the way you felt than about the label and trends. That’s something that I’ve always gravitated toward, and that’s something I’ve always tried to bring to House of Harlow and my QVC line.
What about your collection with QVC?
NR: QVC is nuts. It’s so big that every time I go to the headquarters in West Chester, I think it’s like Jurassic Park, only without the dinosaurs. QVC is just so in tune with its customers, and it’s something totally different than House of Harlow in that respect. When you go in there as a designer, you have to focus on who their customer is. Things like what their needs are, what fabrics they’re drawn to, their likes and dislikes, down to what’s their climate. It’s just a totally different world for me.
Thanks to Marni Prichard Manko and Philadelphia Style Magazine for permission to share their story & photos!
Read the full story here > Nicole Richie's Not-So-Simple Life