Chloe Cornell, a 12-year-old in Westchester County, took an after-school trip a week ago with six of her close friends and her brother to stand beyond the Marc Jacobs show at Fashion Week. The gang wore shirts made with the Chanel butterfly Cs (for Chloe Cornell) and garnered a influx of attention from street-style photographers and people-watchers. We spoke to Chloe about the excursion.
Hi, Chloe! Tell me about these photographs of you with your buddies outside of the Marc Jacobs show, wearing “Chanel” shirts.
My initials are CLOSED CIRCUIT, so for my bat mitzvah we decided to do a Chanel theme.
Do you design the shirts?
My mom and I designed them. We designed different ones therefore it would look more interesting.
Tell me about what you were doing outside of the Marc Jacobs display.
It’s was a video shoot for [the] montage for my access video before I walk into my bat mitzvah. It’s going to play and everyone will see it.
Was there a script?
All my friends were pretending to be my style followers. They’re wearing all my clothes, and I was supposed to be the fashion designer. These were outside the Marc Jacobs show, pretending they were waiting outside for my display. My videographer person was telling them a script to say that was associated with my bat mitzvah and the fashion show, so it would work for both. These were like, I’m so excited! and all this stuff.
Was the crowd curious?
They were having a lot of pictures with us and getting in pictures, and a lot of famous people and editors associated with magazines like Teen Vogue and the New York Times and the Russian Times were capturing of us. It was really fun, and we felt like we were famous.
And you fixed some autographs?
Yeah. I gave like one or two. I signed my title then I wrote "CC" after it.
When did you start using the Coco Chanel Cs are part of your name?
So , when I was 8, my birthday celebration theme was a fashion theme. After we decided to do a fashion theme with regard to my birthday party, we decided it should be CC because my initials are CLOSED CIRCUIT. That was my favorite birthday party ever, so ever since then, I wanted that to be the bat mitzvah theme.
Have you been interested in fashion since that birthday party?
When I had been little, I would go into my mom’s closet and take out her clothes as well as her bags and shoes and stuff and try them on.
Have you got favorite designers or brands?
Some of the stuff I don’t fit into, but Chanel, Hermès, and I like Prada, and I like Gucci.
[Kim Cornell, her mother, stops: "What about your brands? "]#@@#@!!
Oh, right, for my brands, I love LS and Brandy Melville and Alice and Olivia, some of that things, Ruby and Jenna.
Do you know what you want to wear to your bat mitzvah?
I’m not really 100 percent sure, but I have a picture in my mind. It’s going to be short and white-colored, and on the top half it’s going to be plain white, with gold sparkles, perhaps, and a belt, and on the bottom half, it’s going to be like feathers, kind of?
Are you creating it yourself?
Yeah.
Have you thought about becoming a fashion designer?
Yeah, definitely. The whole encounter kind of inspired me. The comments on Teen Vogue - they posted an image on the Teen Vogue Instagram - and people were commenting and asking wherever they could buy [our shirts]. It made me feel really confident as well as like I was good at this kind of stuff.
For my mitzvah project [a charity project to be completed before a bat mitzvah ceremony], I’m carrying this out charity thing called True Blue Friends, and it’s about anti-bullying. I am going to design shirts and sell them, and the profits that I make are going to an-anti bullying charity - I’m not 100 percent sure which one, but I think I am going to do Stomp Out Bullying.
The design will hopefully be done this week, and I think it is going to be a happy-face emoji, with the sunglasses, with a halo on it. We have an Instagram for it already.
Did you post the photo outside of Marc Jacobs for your Instagram?
Well, I’m going to later, maybe after my bat mitzvah. We didn’t invite my whole grade, so I’m still kinda … Personally i think kinda weird posting it without a lot of people [included], so I am going to do it later, when people don’t feel excluded.
Tell me about the trip to the actual show.
So my mom picked us up from school and we drove to the town. When we got there, we put on makeup and put on our clothes. At first, [my friends] were learning their lines and doing practice operates. Then we got into the line and people were taking pictures, and we were kind of anxious. Then my mom explained to us how they thought we looked cute and fashionable plus they wanted to take pictures of us because of that. We got more open to the idea of taking pictures, after which we started posing for them and smiling. Some random person was taking a image of us, I think it was like a model or something, because everyone was looking at the girl and was like, that’s so cool. And everyone was crowding around, however I didn’t know who she was.
After we got burgers, and then crêpes, and then we went home. We got home at like 9-ish or eight: 30 and had to do homework. Back to reality.
How did your friends feel about the actual excursion?
They weren’t really nervous, they were like really excited about it. Once i told them they were like jumping and it was really funny, when we got wear Teen Vogue, when you guys emailed us, we were like, jumping for pleasure, and they were like, "Can we please tell people? " But all of us can’t …
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