Art Week

Alina Cho

Journalist; Editor at Large, Ballantine Bantam Dell; Host, The Atelier at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York.

Alina Cho
“Art is important to me. The Will Cotton portrait sits in my bedroom, because I feel like it’s not something that I want the whole world to see, but those who are closest to me that might have access to my bedroom are welcome to look at it. It’s funny, my mom calls it the Mona Lisa because she feels like wherever she is, the eyes are looking at her, so she’s actually gone from one end of the room to the other, which is pretty funny.
“Will’s a friend and sitting for him was really great, and people don’t realize, this was back in the day when he was actually making real dessert crowns—now a lot of what he does is synthetic—so I had frosting in my hair! The photographer probably took 300 photographs with several different crowns, and you don’t know what you’re getting. It just arrives several months later.”
Dress, Duro Olowu; Shoes, Paul Andrew
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