Cover star Irina Shayk joins ELLE on Ask Me Anything to discuss everything from fashion to motherhood. Irina finds the perfect balance between fashion and comfort, revealing the top three staples in her closet, the funny story behind her shoe collection and even her favorite parts about being a mother.
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00:00 I know how to paint you guys, so if anyone needs anything, wall paints, window paints, I'm around.
00:06 Hi, I'm Marina Sheikh and today I'm gonna let Elle ask me anything.
00:11 What does a typical day look like for me? Well, I get up at 7 a.m., very last minute,
00:20 cook my daughter breakfast, prep her for school, bring her to school, go work out,
00:26 do my appointments, pick her up from school, so it's basically my schedule surrounded with my
00:31 daughter's schedule. But if my daughter is not with me, I love to be in bed till 10 a.m.
00:37 and have a breakfast in bed. Easy.
00:40 I would probably say Jane Fonda. You know, I think she's so much fun and she has a great
00:50 sense of humor, so Jane Fonda. Who is my biggest inspiration in the fashion industry? It's my
00:57 dear friend, Riccardo Tisci. He's so amazing and he's so much fun, he's so creative, he's definitely,
01:04 you know, a biggest inspiration of young generation. And Edward Ellington, because I think he brought a
01:10 new wave of new vision into fashion. Donatella Versace, she's a strong, powerful woman.
01:19 The best advice I've ever received from my mom? Take no and turn into a yes. And I'm a
01:26 Capricorn, so I'm very stubborn. How do I respond to negative? I think I just take everything with
01:34 kind of like sense of humor, you know. I love to laugh with my friends and make fun of myself
01:40 and my friends, so I don't know, I think there is no space of negativity in my life and I'm
01:46 kind of concentrated only on positive. What's my favorite thing about motherhood? It's the honesty
01:52 of my daughter. She would call me in anything I would do. She likes to make fun of me in a like
01:59 silly, funny way. I think it's the best because she's just very straight, honest and she's really
02:05 funny and she's like my best friend. My favorite look that I've worn on a red carpet? I think what
02:12 I wore for a red carpet in Campbell Festival, Malola. I love her. I think she is a new vision
02:20 of young generation and it was like this leather skirt and kind of like crop top. It was like very
02:25 open and a little bit provocative and sexy for the red carpet, but I think she's a woman who
02:30 understands women. Do I have fashion regrets? I kind of don't have any regrets. I think it sounds
02:37 a little silly, but it's like I think you learn from your mistakes and there's so many pictures
02:45 out there where I look and I was like it's absolutely not me, but at least you have something
02:51 to laugh about, right? So no regrets. My first ever job? I was painting a hospital room for like 31
03:01 days because I wanted to get high heel shoes. It was my summer job and I got like $8 for a whole
03:08 month. It was pretty harsh, you know, because you have to like paint from eight to five every day
03:15 and now I know how to paint you guys. So if anyone needs anything, wall paints, window paints, I'm
03:22 around. My first ever money that I got, I was working in some exhibition like some crazy hours.
03:32 I think it was like seven day job and it was like $100 paid and it was a lot of money for me
03:37 and my mom wanted a new sofa so I collected this money and I sent it to her and she got a new sofa
03:44 and she was so excited. So that was my first ever money spent on my mom's sofa. I wish we had it,
03:50 the sofa, but we don't. I think cat or dog's on it or something like that.
03:55 I grew up playing piano and singing in choir. Don't ask me to sing because it would not be
04:01 cute right now for sure. My mom is a classical pianist and I think what made me fall in love
04:07 with music and is hearing her playing piano every day. I mean of course Tchaikovsky, Mozart,
04:13 Beethoven, like classical music has definitely made me fall in love with music and now music
04:18 is you know my everyday life. When I wake up with the music I go to bed listening to music so yeah.
04:23 If I would only have three things in a fashion wardrobe, I mean sweatpants.
04:31 Well I wear sweatpants for my gal after party. I just love to be comfortable. I know this is
04:38 not what everyone want to hear but I definitely need sweatpants in my closet. A little black
04:43 dress that you can reuse. I love recycling clothes so black little dress, sweatpants
04:51 and some comfortable shoes. What's my ever favorite fashion piece that I own? Okay I shouldn't say
05:02 that but I'm really big at taking shoes from fashion shows. Okay so when you walk to my shoe
05:12 closet you can see shows that I did and shoes you know so if I do a show and there is a shoe missing
05:19 do not call me okay. I'm not giving it back. So probably it's this really cool Givenchy boots.
05:30 They're kind of like high up the knee with like a color heel. I think it was from like Egyptian
05:35 collection. I love those shoes. I love, I love, I love it so I'm definitely saving and passing
05:39 it to my daughter. So it would probably be those and I took them from the show. I'm really proud
05:45 of it by the way. What is my bucket list? Well kind of say like don't tell your dreams otherwise
05:51 they don't come true but a couple of photographers that I want to work with and definitely on my
05:57 bucket list is more travel. I've never been to Australia and New Zealand and I want to go back
06:02 to Madagascar because it's my favorite, favorite, favorite place to go. So definitely job goals,
06:10 travel and spend more time with my family. Yeah that's my bucket list. My beauty mantra is
06:18 definitely stay away from the sun, drink tons of water and definitely a lot of sleep. When you rest
06:25 it you feel so much more energized and I think just be happy you know because when you're happy
06:33 I think you glow from inside out. I'm really, really, really excited to shoot for Elle. The team,
06:40 the energy, a rainy day in New York and just can't wait to see pictures. Thank you so much for hanging
06:46 out with me and Elle today. Hope you guys had fun and check out my cover that is out now.
06:51 (upbeat music)