The Cut - The Real Houselife of Jenna Lyons

When Ludovic de Saint Sernin, a young French designer, slid into her DMs, Jenna Lyons agreed immediately to meet him for breakfast while he was in New York. Saint Sernin is a darling of the international fashion press with a long Brâncusi face, shoulder-length waves, and a design philosophy that could fairly be called “empowered slut.” (His breakout piece was a grommeted pair of men’s underpants that lace up like a corset.) Five years before, he might have been reaching out to her peer to peer: She had spent 27 years designing J.Crew, where she revitalized a former mall brand and brought it all the way to the Met Gala. But no, it turned out, that wasn’t it. “When I started watching the show, I was like, Oh, I recognize her from something, but I didn’t know then,” he says. What drove his interest was not her long career in fashion but her current, more surprising one: as a new Real Housewife of New York City.

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