Moda Operandi Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer, Lauren Santo Domingo, joins this episode of "The Good Buy," #sponsored by Google, to share her authentic taste, dressing etiquette, and her one-in, two-out philosophy for curating a fabulous wardrobe. Watch as Lauren discusses her ultimate style inspirations—Kate Moss and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy—who taught her how to create a dichotomy of looks, balancing chic daytime style with even more stunning evening glamour. Lauren embodies the chic New York City woman, mixing a little uptown with cool downtown, swathed in her dream shawl coat by The Row.
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00:00The French know all of these things, there's this idea, but they do.
00:03You know, no cappuccino after 10 a.m. was where the proper bra.
00:08Those are like the two takeaways.
00:10Hello everyone and welcome to The Good Buy, a new podcast from Harper's Bazaar
00:15where we invite celebrities, designers, models, and tastemakers to talk shop.
00:20What they buy, where they got it, and why it matters.
00:23Hi, I'm Lynette Mylander, Executive Digital Director of Harper's Bazaar.
00:26And I'm Lea Chertokoff, the Executive Editor of Harper's Bazaar.
00:30And this is The Good Buy.
00:35What is your good buy this week, Lea?
00:37I always remain in hope that I'm going to find a more perfect pair of jeans.
00:47That's really what I wear every day.
00:49Yes, you do.
00:50And I'm obsessed with vintage Levi's because I found out that the 501
00:55is sort of like an elusive dream and I should just give up.
00:57It's really about the 550s and the 505s.
01:00But then also, is it about like a Silver Lake or whatever feel or whatever brand?
01:07Something's going to be my Cinderella jeans.
01:09So I'm always kind of letting the internet help me, you know?
01:14So constantly trolling, searching Google, and just seeing like
01:19which companies are like making the jeans that I'm looking for right now.
01:22And then I try to get specific to like I'm looking for straight leg, mid-rise.
01:29Certain wash.
01:30Yeah, exactly.
01:31Yeah, that's my good buy.
01:33But I'm like eyeing a pair of vintage 505s right now.
01:38A search for a jeans is a lifelong battle.
01:42What is your good buy this week?
01:44Okay, this good buy was a little...
01:49You're looking away.
01:50I sigh.
01:50Yeah, it's a little extravagant.
01:53That's okay.
01:54But post Paris, I was really looking for a piece that I...
01:59A forever piece.
02:00I'm always thinking about...
02:01Why? So did Paris Fashion Week just give you the shoppies or what?
02:04I think it always does.
02:06You can't help when you're seeing collections from the best designers in the world
02:10and you're seeing things in different shapes and colors
02:12and you're thinking about your own wardrobe and how to integrate that in.
02:16And I was really thinking about a perfect leather jacket.
02:20And again, there are so many amazing leather jackets out there.
02:24Shout outs to the Phoebe Philo black one with the peplum.
02:28I mean, it is incredible.
02:30I would love that jacket.
02:32I still have some sort of like long lead four-year plan to save up for that jacket.
02:38But alas, it was chocolate brown and it has incredibly butter soft leather.
02:43And I think we've been so lucky this season.
02:46There have been such incredible leather jackets and kind of different reiterations,
02:51whether it be high funnel necks or volume.
02:54And this one kind of takes all the best tenants of kind of classic leather jackets
03:00and makes it modern and new and fresh.
03:02It's Loewe's Jonathan Anderson.
03:04I'm completely obsessed with it.
03:05I shouldn't have bought it, but I did.
03:07And I know it's the good one because everywhere I've been, I've been on the subway.
03:11I was on the subway.
03:12Are people stopping to talk to you?
03:14People are stopping and telling me how much they love the jacket.
03:16And I think that is really a testament to when you buy something forever.
03:20And even if it's pricey, you can really see the quality of this jacket.
03:25So I'm very excited about it.
03:27And you will be seeing me wearing it all winter because I have to get down the cost per wear.
03:32So don't judge me.
03:38Hi, goodbye listeners.
03:39Today on the podcast, we have Lauren Santa Domingo, a fixture on the New York scene,
03:44a woman of impeccable taste and truly one of the best dressed women in the world.
03:49Her style is refined yet daring.
03:50And guys, this is someone who clearly loves fashion.
03:54You can tell when you look at her street style or red carpet.
03:56This is someone who is having fun getting dressed.
03:59She is an entrepreneur, an investor, a philanthropist,
04:02the co-founder and chief brand officer of Moda Operandi
04:06and the artistic director of Tiffany Home.
04:08That is a lot of jobs.
04:10Welcome to the Goodbye, Lauren Santa Domingo.
04:12Thanks for having me.
04:13It's nice to be here.
04:15So, okay, you, I feel like I have seen images of what you've been wearing
04:22for at least the last 20 years.
04:24I mean, I've thought about pictures of you in magazines and at fashion shows
04:29and you were really a part of being captured on street style blogs
04:33when that was a big thing.
04:34Describe your personal style philosophy.
04:38I suppose, well, thank you for the nice introduction.
04:43I would say, I would still say evolving.
04:45I would still say, you know, as much as it's evolving,
04:49it's still very true to who I am.
04:51I grew up on the East Coast and the West Coast.
04:53So I feel like I have a, you know, a classical East Coast side,
04:57but then, you know, from the West Coast,
05:01I love color and to be playful and I try not to take things too seriously.
05:05And who's on your mood board?
05:07Who were some of the inspirations and people and brands
05:11that you looked at and thought about when you get dressed?
05:15You know, I would say that, I would say that, you know,
05:21when I've always sort of looked to the generations like before me,
05:26you know, I've always like looked ahead.
05:29So when I was in my 20s, I was like kind of a mess.
05:34And, you know, went out a lot.
05:36It was sloppy.
05:37And I just didn't really have my shit together.
05:41Who does at that point?
05:42Yeah.
05:43So, you know, I always look to like older women who, you know,
05:48it was kind of like women in their 40s or women that were older than me
05:51that I felt like they had their life together
05:54and they had everything figured out.
05:57And, you know, there was this moment, you know, it was, you know,
06:01in the 90s, Kate Moss was dating Johnny Depp.
06:05Yeah.
06:05And there were stories of them.
06:07They were, you know, partying.
06:08They were trashing hotel rooms.
06:11It was wild.
06:11It was crazy.
06:12It looked like a lot of fun.
06:14Yeah.
06:14And then all of a sudden they attended the Cannes Film Festival
06:19and they were perfectly dressed and well turned out.
06:22And they just projected this image of like a proper couple
06:28that had their shit together.
06:30And that I think for me was this sort of pivotal moment
06:34where I realized that style and the way you present yourself
06:39could sort of tell a different story.
06:42And I think that was the moment where I'm like,
06:44okay, I can just fake it for a little bit
06:46and make it look like I have my shit together
06:49when in reality I got 45 minutes of sleep.
06:53I still have like, you know, bar stamps on my hands.
06:56And but I definitely always look for, you know,
06:59women who are older than me.
07:02So right now I'm in my 40s.
07:04I'm looking at these like old broads who live, you know,
07:07decadent lives.
07:08They go to parties, have long lunches.
07:11Name, name.
07:13Is this Adita Blair?
07:14You know, Adita Blair, like Annette de la Renta,
07:18you know, these fabulous women.
07:20They love art.
07:21They love culture.
07:22They seem to, you know, take advantage of all the great
07:26things in the city, museums and shows.
07:28And, you know, I find that something, you know,
07:32very aspirational.
07:34And then when I was in my, you know, in my 20s,
07:38I look to like everyone.
07:40Carolyn Bissette grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut,
07:43where I went and she was very good friends
07:45with my babysitter, a girl who lived down the street
07:48that I was obsessed with, you know, who was older than me.
07:51And so I'd always sort of been following her from afar,
07:55even when I was in my teens.
07:57What really I relate to is that when you look at pictures
08:02of Carolyn Bissette Kennedy, right, she looks really icy
08:06and stoic and very serious, but she was wild.
08:11And she, you know, from people that are close to her,
08:14they tell you she swore, she was loud, she was boisterous.
08:20And she was not at all like her photos.
08:23And, you know, when people meet me,
08:25they often say they're very surprised that I'm outgoing
08:29and I'm friendly and I'm warm.
08:31And I do feel that she used her clothing
08:33to sort of put people at bay.
08:38And I wonder sometimes if that, you know,
08:41as she became more settled in that role,
08:43I also married into a family that was quite, you know,
08:48serious and proper.
08:50And, you know, you find yourself wanting to fit
08:52into that mold.
08:54I definitely have gotten more comfortable over the years.
08:58And I wonder if the same would have happened for her,
09:01if she would have settled in and, you know,
09:03what would, how would her style have sort of evolved?
09:08Yeah, I think that's a really astute observation
09:11because I think she's lived on in this romanticism
09:14because we have very limited photos of her.
09:17You know, she was famous for a certain time
09:20and then she was gone and people kind of pour
09:22over these photos and kind of project their own thoughts
09:27onto her and the way she dressed.
09:28And it's affirming for you to say, you know,
09:31she was, you remember her as a warm, inviting person.
09:35And I also think it's interesting
09:36because I was lucky enough to be hosted in your home
09:39at fashion week for a cocktail party you hosted
09:43was for Pete Amelia or Valaya.
09:45And I can totally say that you're the same.
09:47I thought, I walked into her home and I was like,
09:49oh, she's going to be, you know,
09:50it's going to be really uptight.
09:52She was putting a baked potato with caviar, I must say,
09:56in my hand and like, I had to go to a show.
09:58She's like, here, take it, take it a go.
10:00A roadie.
10:01You know, I love them.
10:02A roadie caviar potato.
10:04That is, yeah, that's the right kind of elegance.
10:08Yeah. Tell us about your approach to shopping.
10:10I mean, I think we've got to say you're lucky enough
10:13to have your own, you know, shopping platform
10:16that you co-founded and you run.
10:19So you get to see the best of the best
10:22in terms of collections.
10:24And you really get to be up close and personal
10:26with the pieces.
10:26How do you decide what you're going to buy each season?
10:29You know, when it comes to my personal style
10:30is I often think to myself, you know,
10:35I live in the twenties in Manhattan.
10:36I live in, you know, midtown.
10:39And there's something that's so applicable about that
10:42because I feel like my style, it's like,
10:45I feel like I'm a little cooler
10:47than like the ladies on the Upper East Side.
10:50But I'm definitely like a lot uncooler
10:53than all the girls on the, you know, downtown.
10:57And so I feel like I live like somewhere in the middle.
11:00And I remember when I first moved to New York
11:04and, you know, I really, my two worlds in New York
11:07were very different.
11:08You know, I had my fashion world
11:10that was really existed downtown and clubs and restaurants.
11:14And that was very much my world.
11:15But then on the flip side,
11:17I married a guy who grew up on the Upper East Side
11:19and he had a very rich life up there.
11:21And I always felt like I was trying to go between the two.
11:24And my greatest challenge every day was like,
11:27okay, how can I dress for both?
11:29You know, so if I'm going uptown or downtown,
11:32how can I sort of fit in both ways,
11:34honestly, without having to go home and change?
11:36Right, yeah.
11:37And I do feel to some extent
11:40that that sort of informed everything
11:42where I'm like kind of just trying to be in the middle,
11:46cooler than uptown,
11:47but definitely not as cool as downtown,
11:49somewhere, you know, midtown.
11:51But when it comes to shopping,
11:53I, you know, I definitely,
11:55you know, when I started Moda,
11:58I was a 10, it's really the same thing of bridging,
12:02bridging these two worlds.
12:05So when I moved to New York
12:07and I was working in fashion
12:08and I had access to all these incredible runway shows
12:11and designer showrooms,
12:12and I could borrow clothes from designers
12:15and from showrooms,
12:18and I had access to just the most incredible fashion.
12:21So I definitely approach fashion
12:24where I am definitely in touch with what's going on,
12:28on the runway, I get excited,
12:30but I'm just too old to like change who I am.
12:34And I think I dress pretty conservatively for the day.
12:38And when I have fun, it's at night,
12:41that's when I still love to get dressed up.
12:44I still love going out.
12:46So that's sort of like the fun part of fashion for me.
12:48And when I'm ordering from the runway,
12:50I'm like really looking at all the evening clothes.
12:52And yeah.
12:53And guys, if you haven't Googled
12:56Lauren Santa Domingo evening dresses or like looks,
13:00the evening ones are really, are kind of stellar.
13:03So there's lots of inspiration there.
13:06You know, on the goodbye, on the podcast,
13:08we love to interrogate people's buys.
13:11Like we like to get in the weeds.
13:13We wanna know what it is that you've been buying.
13:15So take us back to the first buy
13:18that made you feel like you had made it,
13:21that is in your memory as something you really wanted
13:24or craved and you got,
13:26and tell us about what that experience was like.
13:28Okay.
13:29I would say when it comes to shopping,
13:33I had parents, like my dad used to famously say,
13:35if I asked for something, he would say,
13:38if you, you know, if you can't get it at Walmart,
13:40you don't need it.
13:41So, and my mother, when I wanted something would ask me,
13:45what are you gonna wear it with?
13:46And where are you going in it?
13:48So I always really have those two things
13:51in the back of my head.
13:53She also would say the only advice she would ever give me
13:55in terms of getting dressed, you know,
13:58no matter what phase I was going through,
14:00she would always say like, just try to look nice.
14:02So I think I have all of those things
14:04sort of going through my head.
14:08And I think that exercise of what are you wearing this
14:11and where are you going in it
14:12has always been very helpful in getting dressed
14:16and not over consuming.
14:19I also have a one in two out rule.
14:24Okay. Talk us through it.
14:25So like if I buy one black sweater,
14:27I have to be willing to rotate out two.
14:31Wow.
14:32Lynette doesn't understand this.
14:33No, I understand it.
14:35I want to adopt it.
14:38Tell me a bit about that philosophy
14:40because I think we need to know.
14:41We're very over consuming, I think as a society.
14:45So when it's something exciting,
14:47then it's like we throw all caution to the wind, right?
14:49Fine, fine.
14:49A gold sequined Carolina Herrera two piece evening set.
14:54Why not?
14:56But when it comes to like my everyday staples,
14:58I would hope, you know, as a grown ass woman
15:00that I would have all my, you know, wardrobe staples, right?
15:05Pretty down pat.
15:06Do I need any more black sweaters?
15:08Do I need another tweed jacket?
15:11Keeping in mind, silhouettes change.
15:13The shrunken jacket may not be, you know,
15:15my sweaters are more oversized.
15:16So, you know, taking into account,
15:18I have to be, if I want to bring something new,
15:21I have to be willing to get rid of two things
15:26to make place for it.
15:27And that's sort of my rule.
15:29And it helps me, you know, I can lie to myself.
15:33I'm like, there's no referee here.
15:34So, you know, and I tend to break rules.
15:37But that is sort of, you know, how I really approach things.
15:42And so, yeah, so that's my rule to into out.
15:44I did modeling in high school,
15:47like summer vacation, high school,
15:49and then on and off in college.
15:51And then after graduation,
15:53so the first like real designer purchase I ever made
15:59was that Hermes belt with the dog,
16:03you know, the Chien belt.
16:05It was in Paris.
16:06I was the 90s.
16:08It was modeling.
16:08It just felt like a very supermodel thing to do.
16:13And it also, even then I realized
16:16that this was something that was timeless.
16:20And even then this was, you know,
16:22I was, of course, in those days,
16:23we were, you know, very much overpaid.
16:26But I was still aware, even in that moment,
16:30having, you know, remembered every single job
16:33and early morning and terrible casting
16:36and terrible photographers to get to that moment.
16:40Yeah.
16:40That I was really, you know, it was a, you know,
16:43a real moment, a real purchase for me.
16:46And I still have it.
16:47It's perfect.
16:48It's in perfect condition.
16:50I still travel with it.
16:51And it's, you know, original, original pouch.
16:54Oh, you wear it.
16:55Yeah, I wear it.
16:56I wear it, but I'm not like a type A person,
16:59so to speak.
17:00I'm like still kind of a mess.
17:02But I do take really good care of the things
17:07that I do buy.
17:09I'm a little anal like that,
17:10you know, like nice, nice hangers.
17:13And I zip things up.
17:16I think you've got to get into the habit of
17:18if you're going to invest in these pieces
17:20that there is an aftercare,
17:22like, like absolutely commitment to things as well.
17:25It's not just a one and done.
17:29I was just looking at me like,
17:30No, it wasn't.
17:31It was no, totally not.
17:33I just think that a lot of people,
17:34like a lot of my friends don't want to invest in tailors
17:38and things like that.
17:38And I'm like, do you think that something off the rack
17:41is just going to fit you perfectly?
17:42You know, we're not, I mean,
17:44I'd love to live in the fifties
17:46and have everything couture like hand,
17:48like made to my measurements,
17:49but it isn't like that.
17:50And so you have to kind of invest.
17:52And also investments take care.
17:53Exactly.
17:54Yeah.
17:54When you launched Moda,
17:56and this was like, you know, a big thing
17:57and you had founded something,
17:59you were the big boss.
18:00Was there anything you wore
18:03or bought yourself to sort of like
18:05help you inhabit this new role?
18:09That's a good question.
18:10I think that's when I really realized,
18:12you know, I had grown up in fashion
18:15where, you know, the women who had the most power
18:19and the most, you know, the most respect
18:23were women who were somewhat unapproachable
18:28and intimidating.
18:30And I never wanted to be like that.
18:34I never, I wanted to always be relatable
18:37and have really honest and reciprocal relationships.
18:43So that's something that I've always been,
18:45really careful of.
18:46So I've always been careful not to wear clothes
18:49during the day, you know, when I'm working,
18:52that will be like off-putting or intimidating.
18:57And while sometimes, you know,
18:59that managerial style can be more efficient,
19:03you know, it just wasn't something
19:04that I could like inhabit that role of being like that.
19:09So I think I've always been very careful
19:11of just trying to be, you know,
19:14relatable, approachable, yeah.
19:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:18What is a buy that you regret?
19:21Have you ever bought anything and regretted it?
19:23Or have you gone through a style evolution
19:28or a moment that you're like, gosh, never again?
19:29Or any outfits that you look back on photos?
19:32Oh my God, there are so many.
19:34There are so many.
19:35There are so many outfits.
19:35There was one year I went to,
19:39it was the Met Gala, the Anglo Mania.
19:42It was honoring Alexander McQueen and, you know,
19:46his legacy, exactly.
19:50And so I was, you know, Andre Leontali,
19:54I was very lucky to, he would like dress me up
19:56from time to time.
19:57And what an amazing person to be.
20:00Yeah, not complaining.
20:01Yes.
20:02And so we were getting closer to the event
20:05and I hadn't chosen anything, you know.
20:08And so we were looking through all the lookbooks
20:12and Andre pulled out this dress
20:14and it was, you know, a high collar,
20:17like an Elizabethan collar with, you know, chiffon
20:20and some jeweled, you know, jewels around the neck.
20:25A drop waist, I mean, like a very bizarre length drop waist
20:30with a chiffon ruffle.
20:32I think I've seen you in this dress.
20:33Yes.
20:34And there were some feathers, ostrich feathers.
20:36I actually know this, like sleeveless.
20:38Sleeveless.
20:39Yeah.
20:39And meanwhile, it's in a color,
20:40like I can't even explain the color.
20:43I would want to say like dead moss.
20:45Yeah.
20:46Or like some sort of, you know, mold you'd find, you know.
20:50So anyway, when you're, you know, Andre was like, you know.
20:53This is it.
20:54When you're with him, you know, and that's part of fashion, right?
20:57You're like, this was it.
21:00And listen, to this day, I still love it.
21:02I stand by it.
21:03And, but it was a bit ridiculous.
21:06But everyone was, I mean, listen,
21:08maybe that was the forefront of everyone looking ridiculous there.
21:11And so we were going up the red carpet,
21:15which is just an intimidating moment to begin with.
21:18And we get to the bottom of the stairs and someone says,
21:22Lauren, Andre's like, you know, photo, photo.
21:25This was obviously back before there were celebrities
21:27and they wanted our photo.
21:30Um, and, uh, and Andre's looks at me and he was like,
21:33I am not taking a photo of you in that dress.
21:36You look ridiculous.
21:39We waited until you were there just to be like, you're on your own.
21:42So we now have a rule.
21:43If he's going to give me any commentary, it has to be before I leave the house.
21:47I think that feels very fair.
21:49I think that's good commentary.
21:51I would like to say, I'm pretty sure I'm very aware of the look.
21:54You looked great.
21:56And also McQueen.
21:58I think it was as McQueen as it could be.
22:02It's McQueen as it could be.
22:03And I think McQueen's one of those archival McQueen.
22:06So one of those things, you know, husbands aren't meant to get that.
22:09That's not what, you know, they don't get it.
22:11Forgiving, high fashion, couture, you know, honoring a brilliant designer.
22:16I think that.
22:18Nailed it.
22:19As always.
22:20Um, do you have any repeat buys?
22:23Anything that you always go back to or wardrobe staple?
22:28Things that you buy in multiples.
22:30Yeah.
22:31Um, I would say, can we be risque?
22:34Can we be a little risque here?
22:38Excuse me to the men in our audience.
22:42I am a big proponent of proper undergarments.
22:49Okay.
22:50Speak to this woman over here.
22:53Are you pro or anti?
22:55No, I'm just lazy.
22:57And I have like little kids right now.
22:59And I'm just like, I can't get it together.
23:01Yes, I know.
23:02I know.
23:03So I can't tell you how many times, um, you know, we have women come through and they'll,
23:11um, you know, customers and shoppers and we'll be putting them in these beautiful
23:15dresses and this and that.
23:17And then they'll just be wearing like, you know, the wrong bra.
23:21Right.
23:21Like the wrong bra.
23:22It's giving mounds.
23:24It's giving lumps.
23:25It's not giving perky.
23:27And it's not giving perky.
23:29And I always want to be like, you need to wear a proper bra if you're going to be wearing
23:33proper clothing.
23:34So what are your?
23:35I think the safest bet is like any res bra gives the nice silhouette, like a perfect,
23:42um, uh, like, like a proper shape.
23:44And I stand by this and it makes all the difference in the world.
23:49And I just think if you're going to be wearing, um, nice clothes, you need to be, you know,
23:54wearing the proper under, in fashion, we say underpinnings.
23:58Underpinnings.
23:58Underpinnings.
23:59Yes.
24:00We had another moment the other day where I did not have the proper underpinnings.
24:03You need the proper underpinnings.
24:04But eras.
24:05I think so.
24:06I think it's just one of these things that like, you know, the French know all of these
24:10things.
24:10There's this idea, but they do.
24:12And, um, and I think that's like the one takeaway other than, you know, no cappuccino
24:18after, uh, 10 AM was wear the proper bra.
24:21Those are like the two, the two takeaways.
24:24Um, but I stand by it and it makes all the difference.
24:27So foundationally setting up your clothes for success.
24:30So having, you know, right bra, right underwear, no visible panty line.
24:35We like, you're a big proponent of that.
24:37Yeah.
24:37And all that.
24:38I feel like all the youths don't wear bras anymore.
24:40Yeah.
24:40This is true.
24:41This is true.
24:42Yeah.
24:43That's fine too, actually.
24:44I would rather no bra than the wrong bra.
24:46The last of our buys, um, as a way to sort of like tell us about, you know, all things,
24:52uh, LSD is to tell us about your dream buy.
24:56What are you lusting after right now?
24:57I mean, I think that's my problem is I love so many things.
25:01Um, and I think that's why for me, Moda is so important because I love everything and
25:11I want everything to find a home.
25:14Um, I want everyone to be connected with like that one piece that's gonna sort of
25:20change their life or help them figure out who they are, um, or give them that like
25:25main character energy.
25:27Whatever it is, like that's my passion.
25:30Um, I get DMs on Instagram.
25:33I'm going to, the recent one was, you know, my dad's getting remarried and I'm going to
25:38the wedding and these are all the things I need to project and what am I wearing?
25:42And I, you know, I answer all my DMs.
25:44Really?
25:44Yes.
25:45I was like, wow, this is a, this is quite a survey.
25:47I do, I do.
25:48I mean, I'm not advertising it or anything.
25:50Yeah, I was just about to say DM Lorenzo Di Domingo with your style.
25:53For your specific fashion inquiries.
25:55But I do, I really, um, for me, it's really important to connect people with those things
26:02and to make them fall in love with fashion and to like find those items.
26:06Um, like I said, I'm much better at evening.
26:09Um, there are two things that are on Moda and both of them are extravagantly priced.
26:17We love that.
26:17Um, one is a black, tall boot.
26:22It's like the perfect boot.
26:24And then.
26:24Who's it by?
26:25The Row.
26:26The Row.
26:27And then they're.
26:27Why is it the perfect boot?
26:28I, we have to, you know.
26:29Yeah.
26:30Okay.
26:30It's the perfect boot because it feels like it's tall, right?
26:34It's tall without being like slutty.
26:37Where does it hit?
26:38It hits below the knee, but like not calf.
26:40You know, it's, it's high, but it's not like statement high, um, but it's flattering high.
26:46Okay.
26:46Um, I also have a very strong, I think that everything should hit on your body at like
26:51the slimmest part.
26:53Right.
26:54Yeah.
26:54So like, I don't want my boot to cut mid calf.
26:57Why would you do that?
26:58Because that's like the widest part of your calf.
27:00You want it to cut where the calf goes.
27:03In.
27:03You want it.
27:04Yes.
27:04At your ankle.
27:05Either at your ankle or like right below your kneecap.
27:08So these boots seem like they hit in the perfect, um, they're, they're not shiny.
27:13They're not matte.
27:14They have a really good heel.
27:16It's an uptown heel and a downtown heel.
27:18What's an inch count?
27:19Um, I didn't look.
27:21But it's around like two or three.
27:22It's like, you know.
27:23Yeah.
27:24Yeah.
27:24Two, two inches.
27:25Yeah.
27:26Um, which is, you know, uptown, downtown.
27:28Perfect.
27:29Um, and then there is a shawl coat.
27:34It's like a cocoon shawl coat.
27:37You know, there's all these things just like wrap once around the shoulder.
27:40And there's like a coat or a knit with a, a jaunty scarf.
27:44This is also from the row.
27:46This is also from the row.
27:47It has like a jump, but this has like a, a cape or like, it's like a cocoon.
27:53Yeah.
27:53You're swathed.
27:54You're swathed.
27:55That's something they've been doing a lot with their coats is, is also you have this scarf moment
28:00that you just are kind of enraptured.
28:02Like you're like a little caterpillar.
28:04Yeah.
28:04Just like in it.
28:05Yeah.
28:05With the boot, you know.
28:07Okay.
28:07So.
28:08Perfection.
28:08I think you need to make this happen.
28:10I'm wearing this.
28:11I would be wearing it to, you know, like fashion week.
28:14Oh, right.
28:14Where are you going?
28:15Right.
28:15The rules.
28:16This is for Paris.
28:17Yeah.
28:18This is a, you know, for couture in January.
28:21It's that.
28:22Yeah.
28:22It's pretty special.
28:24That sounds really good.
28:25Yeah.
28:26I get rid of like five coats out.
28:28Yeah.
28:28For that one in.
28:29Six boots out.
28:30Yeah.
28:30Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:31For sure.
28:32The rules have to adjust.
28:33Oh, yeah.
28:33Yeah.
28:33The real, real would be like, ka-ching.
28:35I'd be sending a lot.
28:37I'd be, I'd be doing a big trade-off.
28:38I like that though.
28:39I like, you know, I think about you as a woman of abundance and you have,
28:44I'm sure you have a lot of beautiful things.
28:46And I like that you are like, no, you know, if I have this beautiful coat,
28:50you know, some things have got to go.
28:51It's got to be one in, one out or two in.
28:54What is it?
28:54One in, two out.
28:55Yeah.
28:55One in, two out.
28:56Sometimes I'll do, sometimes I'll do one in, one out.
28:58But yeah, I think that, you know, my parents just drilled on me
29:02when I was young and I was, you know, I always worked.
29:07I always had a job, you know, before I did modeling.
29:10I, you know, I was a lifeguard.
29:12I was a mother's helper.
29:13I was a, you know, a hostess at a restaurant.
29:17Like I always had a job.
29:18I always worked.
29:20I always bought my own things.
29:21I've always really understood, you know, the value.
29:26And when I buy something, it means something to me.
29:28And I still have that.
29:30And I still hear in the back of my head, you know, my mother,
29:34where are you wearing that?
29:35And what are you wearing it with?
29:36And I would have to tell her, you know, so from a young age
29:39without knowing it, putting looks together, you know,
29:42I just don't look at something as a piece.
29:44I look at it.
29:45How is this going to, how's this going to work into my life?
29:49And so it's made me a good shopper.
29:51And it's a good shopping philosophy.
29:53I was talking to a friend last week and she, she said to me,
29:57Lynette, you know, I just think I shop for pieces.
30:00And I say, that's such a dangerous way to shop
30:03because you're not thinking about things holistically.
30:05You're not thinking about, do I, okay, great.
30:08You love it.
30:08You bought a pair of boots because you love them.
30:10But do you have clothes that are also you can pair them with
30:13or wear a jacket with something else?
30:15So, you know, if, if something just sort of remains an outlier
30:18in your closet, then it's, it just becomes a bit redundant.
30:22When I buy something and I don't wear it or I don't wear it
30:27as much as I told myself that I was going to wear it,
30:30I become very disappointed in myself.
30:35So I really hate when that happens.
30:37Hard on yourself about purchases.
30:39Yeah.
30:39Especially because I had to give up two things to have it.
30:42So now, now I'm really mad.
30:43You made a sacrifice and it didn't pay off.
30:46Well, Lauren, that was far too short
30:50because I could hear about your insider tips for a very long time.
30:54I do think you should write a book.
30:56Yes.
30:57Of all of your rules.
30:59Lauren Center Domingo's Guide to Living.
31:00Because you do, I think I would say, you know,
31:03observing you from afar, both of us, I think you've,
31:06it seems that you've got it down pat.
31:08Well, that was my goal.
31:09I always wanted to look like someone who had my shit together
31:12and wasn't a total mess.
31:13So it's working.
31:14So she did it.
31:18Thank you for being a guest on The Goodbye.
31:21This was Harper's Bazaar's The Goodbye.
31:24I'm Lynette Nylander.
31:25And I'm Leah Chernikoff.
31:26Thank you very much.
31:27Bye.
31:28Bye.