What do you get when you mix Jack White and Karen Elson? A model with unparalleled music taste. Scarlett White has taken up her parents’ creative mantle with fervor in Valentino campaigns, on the runway, and in the pages of Vogue Italia, making her a prime contender for nepo of the moment.
What’s your biggest vice? Your greatest virtue?
My primary vices are my vintage shopping obsession and excellent fast-food French fries. My greatest virtue is my generosity of spirit. If I discover something great, whether it’s a hole-in-the-wall vintage store or a piece of art that’s moved me, I immediately share it with everyone I know.
Name an influence of yours that might surprise people.
Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid was the first film I ever saw in theaters. I had a strange hyperfixation on him throughout my childhood. Also, anything that Nathan Fielder does.
What’s one work of art that got you through an important moment of your life?
Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon is a very sentimental film for me, especially Tatum O’Neal’s performance in the movie. An important book would be Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich. I read it for the first time in high school, and it speaks on death and the human experience in such a beautiful way and really shaped how I think about authenticity and superficiality.
What question do you ask yourself most often while you’re making work?
Am I translating the feeling that the photographer wants to project? Do I understand the narrative that we’re building together? Do my expressions align with my movements?
What are you looking forward to this year?
I can’t wait for summer. I’m so desperate for warm weather that it’s getting kind of pathetic. I had a dream the other night that it was July and I was in a field, wearing a mini dress and lying in the sun.
What keeps you up at night?
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video. I saw it when I was 3 years old and was absolutely mortified when Micheal Jackson turned into a werewolf. I’m still recovering from that moment.
What would you be doing if you weren’t working in your field?
In another life, I would be an equestrian. Mainly because I’ve developed an obsession with Gypsy Vanner horses. They’re amazing!
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