Ashley Olsen is in the new September 2009 issue of Marie Claire magazine spilling her secrets about fashion and her sense of style she shares with sister, Mary-Kate.
On having style: “Mary-Kate and I are very aware of trends and style, but at the end of the day, we don’t even think twice about it. It’s just, What do I feel like wearing today, and how do I want to put it together?”
“I think you’re either born with a sense of style of you’re not. Either you care or you don’t. And we love fashion. When we were going to NYU, I think that was the first time we were aware of the power of our personal style. Not the power of it, but the result of it.”
On her sense of style: “Between the big sunglasses and the Starbucks cup and the big sweaters, the hobo-chic thing, we were more shocked than anything. I get it; we were fortunate enough to have really nice clothes, and we put them together in this raggedy way. My mom wears glasses this big”—she mimes massive goggles—”from the ’70s, and you wonder where we got it from? The dark eyeliner, the scarf around the head—it’s just so interesting and natural.” Her family, she says, was “very bohemian.”
On her old taste in fashion: “I look back at the things that we did and the clothes that we wore, and I think, Wow, we really were troupers.”
On her past daily regimen: “It was almost like I was in the army,” Ashley says. “School, work, homework, fly to New York, get in at 2 in the morning, do a morning show at 5 a.m., then another one at 7, then a radio interview at 10, you know?”
“That’s why I look at Britney, and I’m surprised I didn’t end up like her.”
On altering beautiful, expensive designer outfits to fit her petite body: “The amount of beautiful things we’ve ruined—not having the patience for a tailor and cutting everything ourselves … My sister once took an Alaïa dress of mine and just cut the whole thing, and then she was like, ‘I cut it too short.’”
“Mary-Kate and I don’t think about fashion as these clean, beautiful objects. We just kind of wear it and live in it”
On her new obsession-Wii’s Rock Band: “I swear to you, it’s brought out this whole new thing in me. I can be a very serious person, and I take my job very seriously, but at the end of the day, I need a break.”







