The youngest designer ever to have made a Bergdorf Goodman personal appearance, Jessie Della Femina was featured in the New York Times and on Larry King Live before she even graduated high school. With another graduation just around the corner, the fashionable College senior waxes philosophic on late-night delicacies, pleather, and those cute freshman boys.
Street: You've done the whole Manhattan prep school thing, so we must know, have you been watching Gossip Girl?
Jessie Della Femina: Unfortunately, I spend my Wednesday evenings learning about the earth through time so I've had to miss it.
Street: What is the soundtrack to your life?
JDF: Lately, the hideous house music from the weekly rave that takes place below my apartment.
Street: What is the best fashion advice your mom [Full Frontal Fashion's Judy Licht] has ever given you?
JDF: Not to beseech or follow fashion advice and just wear what you feel good in.
Street: What was your worst fashion faux pas?
JDF: Oh God, there have been lots. The worst was probably pleather bell bottoms. I was 12, and I loved them.
Street: Bergdorf, Barneys, Bendel, Bloomies. pick your favorite B.
JDF: Bloomingdales without a doubt. Not for the actual merchandise - for clothes I'll always love Bendels because they buy from interesting new designers that you can't find at the others, and were the first to take a chance on me and carry my line - but because at Bloomingdales you can shop, try on and purchase stuff without the unsolicited advice of annoying and hovering sales people. I loathe sales help.
Street: What is the one thing that no one can pull off?
JDF: Ray-Ban Wayfarers. They are silly and so are the people who wear them.
Street: What is something that almost everyone looks good in?
JDF: Contrary to popular belief, not that skin tight American Apparel dress. Goggles.
Street: What is your current favorite trend?
JDF: Freshman boys.
Street: When you look at the freshmen, what do you think?
JDF: I feel so sorry for/kind of wish I were you.
Street: At this point, as a senior, do you still meet new people?
JDF: Every day.
Street: What is something about you that no one would believe just by looking at you?
JDF: I'm friendly.
Street: What is your favorite midnight snack?
JDF: Totino's pizza rolls.
Street: Do you drunkenly text?
JDF: Nightly.
