Back when Chloë Sevigny was “a 19-year-old that has done nothing,” Jay McInerney profiled her for The New Yorker.

 Back when Chloë Sevigny was “a 19-year-old that has done nothing,” Jay McInerney profiled her for The New Yorker. The piece had a huge impact on Naomi Fry. “Despite not having done much at that point besides be young, hang out downtown, and have an innate sense of style, Sevigny seemed to be the font from which absolute cool flowed,” Fry writes. Read her full consideration of McInerney on Sevigny.

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