Ask Babe: Playing Favorites

Dearest Babe,

What was your favorite outfit ever and where it was worn?

D*****

Dear US Weekly,

Thanks for the really boring but also unanswerable inquiry. There are some questions to which I can’t give a proper response, mainly because I’m super tired, but also because they’re so loaded. My favorite outfit? It’s like asking me which of my Birkins I’d save in a fire. I don’t fucking know. For your sake, however, I’ve racked my brain and this is what I came up with…

I’d have to say, and this might surprise you, that my favorite outfit ever was/is a serious Prada or Celine chunk-heel, an amazing pair of black jeans or skinny leather jeans, a grey t-shirt, and a vintage Balenciaga blazer that my grandmother, Tai Tai, left me after her untimely death a few years ago. I live in this outfit and I wear it to meetings, on dates, and to parties thrown by people who I feel need to be more jealous of my natural ability to shine bright. The simplicity of the outfit is what I like to call a “fuck you.” Plus it makes me feel closer to the two most important women I’ve ever known, my Tai Tai and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Additionally, once I swam with dolphins off the coast of South Africa wearing a Pucci jumpsuit from the’70s, so that was cute too.