Exclusive: Paris Hilton Is Making Old Navy Feel Y2K Again
You should know that Paris Hilton has the most beautiful porta-potty in all of Beverly Hills. It has gleaming wood panels in the stalls and steaming hot water in the sink, and the hand soap is from Aesop and costs $47.
The whole thing is extremely on-brand for Hilton, the 45-year-old avatar of luxury living whose hair remains the color of Malibu sand and whose résumé boasts more jobs than Barbie. These include—deep breath—addictive reality TV star, surprisingly capable pop singer, island-hopping DJ, nascent skin care CEO, dog mom turned actual mom, wildly successful perfume licensee, employer zero of Kim Kardashian, and congressional witness on behalf of exploited teens. Starting this week, Hilton’s gig roster also includes Old Navy muse, a job that Hilton swears aligns with her lifestyle of the very rich and very famous.
“I’m at Old Navy all the time, I really mean it,” she tells me from a film set in a sprawling mansion, which includes both a pool and a pond with paddle boats. (“Have you seen the turtles?!” she exclaims. “So cute.”) Hilton is here to film Old Navy’s summer campaign that also includes other reality royalty like the beloved Real Housewife Kathy Hilton (a.k.a. her mom) and the Summer House breakout babe Ciara Miller. Supervising the shoot is Zac Posen, the executive vice president of Gap Inc. and chief creative officer of Old Navy. Posen climbs out of an SUV at the top of the massive driveway and tells me about his first encounter with Hilton when they were both in high school.
“I was finally old enough to go out to clubs and parties,” he says. “She was always just so cool and so fun. She’s so smart, which people don’t discuss enough, but also, Paris was like the engine of any party. If she was there, you knew it would be the most fun night of your life. And that’s what we’re creating for the summer, inspired by Paris, really. Clothes that let you relax and just have the best time.” They’re also clothes with decidedly Y2K top notes—baby tees, handkerchief-hem skirts, cropped pastel sweatshirts—that nod to Hilton’s origins as the queen of the naughty aughties.
Here’s what Hilton told ELLE about her old and new style, advice for working with your mom, and memories of driving a getaway car with Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears. You know, just casual stuff.
You recently sat front row at the Gucci show in Milan. Now you’re shopping at Old Navy?
Actually, I always have! You know, I grew up going to the mall in L.A. and the Hamptons, so I’ve been buying their T-shirts and shorts and stuff for forever. I’ve always gone there.
There aren’t a ton of paparazzi shots of you at the mall. Do you use a secret entrance?
No, when I go, I always dress up in disguise: black wig, sweatsuit—and not, like, a bright pink sweatsuit, usually a gray one—sunglasses, hat pulled down really low. But sometimes people still figure it out and they’re like, “Paris?” And I try to put my finger to my lips, like it’s a fun secret. But you’re right, I can’t really just hang out at the mall, unfortunately, at least not as myself. If I just walked in with the pink everything and the blonde hair, it would be like Mickey Mouse at Disneyland. So I love to go undercover.
Are you good at it?
I’m great at it. I’ve had to do this for a long time.
Do you look at price tags when you’re shopping?
It depends. At Old Navy, the prices are so amazing it’s not really a concern. But if I’m somewhere where things are going to cost thousands of dollars, then yeah. Of course I do. I take value very, very seriously.
What’s your Old Navy haul right now?
I am a PJs girl. I’m a mom and I’m working all the time, but when I’m just chilling at home I love being cozy in PJs. I also love the Old Navy children’s line—there are so many cute things for the kids. And I love what Zac [Posen] has done with it. We’ve been friends since we were teenagers, so it’s really cool to be connecting in this way.
Zac said he based a lot of the new collection on your Y2K influence. You pioneered the pink tracksuit and the jelly shoes and the tiny denim mini kilts that girls are wearing again today. What’s it like to people on TikTok wearing “Paris Hilton-core” outfits?
It makes me so happy. They’ll come up to me like, “You’re the OG, you’re the reason I’m wearing this.” I always felt so ahead of my time in fashion—and I had no stylist, no publicist, no manager, no agent, nothing. I was just me going shopping, going downtown to Patricia Field in New York and all these cool stores, putting together looks during the New York socialite scene. No one was dressing like that. Some girls even made fun of me! Now seeing my pictures all over people’s mood boards for the big fashion shows with major labels—it’s awesome. I love being the OG and I love that I created Y2K fashion. I think it was the most fun era ever.
You had some great stuff, like the pink Murakami x Louis Vuitton cherry blossom bag and shoes, the pink Dior aviator shades, all those Matthew Williamson party dresses…and the bedazzled Uggs!
The bedazzled cell phone, too.
Full interview: elle.com
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Paris Hilton Says AI Porn Is an ‘Epidemic’
Paris Hilton appeared on Capitol Hill with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday to promote a bill about AI-generated deep-fake porn. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act — DEFIANCE Act — would allow victims of these images to sue those who created and distributed them. After it passed unanimously in the Senate on January 13, Hilton showed up in Washington, D.C., to push for its passage in the House.
In a press conference, Hilton said the experience of having her sex tape leaked in 2004 inspired her to advocate for the bill. “When I was 19 years old, a private intimate video of me was shared with the world without my consent,” she said. “People called it a scandal. It wasn’t — it was abuse. There were no laws at the time to protect me. There weren’t even words for what had been done to me. The internet was still new, and so was the cruelty that came with it.”
“They sold my pain for clicks, and then they told me to be quiet, to move on, to even be grateful for the attention,” Hilton continued. “These people didn’t see me as a young woman who had been exploited. They didn’t see the panic that I felt, the humiliation or the shame. No one asked me what I lost — I lost control over my body, over my reputation. My sense of safety and self-worth was stolen from me.”
Hilton explained the parallels she sees between the aftermath of the leak and what women are now experiencing when sexually explicit AI-generated images are created and shared without their consent. “What happened to me then is happening now to millions of women and girls in a new and more terrifying way,” she said. “Before, someone had to betray your trust and steal something real. Now, all it takes is a computer and a stranger’s imagination. Deep-fake pornography has become an epidemic.”
In her remarks, Ocasio-Cortez said that she and many of the other lawmakers who have backed the bill have also been targeted with deep-fake porn of themselves. “Not only is this a coalition of legislators, this is a coalition of survivors, of sexual harassment and in some cases abuse and assault,” she said. “As a survivor of sexual assault, this resurfaces trauma for so many people across the country. And that is what it is intended to do, because the creation of this content parallels the same exact intention of physical rape and sexual assault, which is about power, domination, and humiliation. And while the images may be digital, the harm to victims is very real.”
It’s not clear when the House will vote on the DEFIANCE Act, but House Speaker Mike Johnson has signaled his support for the legislation. “I’m certainly in favor of it,” Johnson previously told The Independent. “We’ve got to find the vote tally, but that should be a big bipartisan concern. We need to protect children online, and we need to stop these abuses.”
Source: thecut.com