29 Questions With Harper’s Bazaar’s Laura Brown
29 Questions With Harper’s Bazaar’s Laura Brown
When Harper’s Bazaar Executive Editor Laura Brown travels to her hometown in Australia, the last thing she wants to do is shop. Instead, she’d prefer be around wildlife. “The highlight of my last trip was going to the Melbourne Zoo and seeing quokkas!” she explains, showing us images of her being approached by the furry creatures (which look like cat-size wallabies with teddy bear ears).
Her quirky, down-to-earth approach to a day off is juxtaposed with a busy work schedule of attending events in borrowed Erdem and Delpozo, or on location working on portfolios and cover shoots (the most recent, a profile on Jennifer Aniston). Her take on skincare is similar: While she uses the same facialist as Jessica Alba (Note: It’s Shani Darden), she also doesn’t take her beauty routine too seriously. “I’m a good washing-face-before-bed person, and I try to do the serums like Is Clinical but fail most of the time.” When it comes to lipsticks, she’s always armed with two, depending on the mood she’s in: “I’m usually doing the neutral and the red, that’s how it works, that’s life. I’m a Gemini.”
But it’s her self-deprecating and extremely humorous demeanor to life that makes her loved by all. We asked her 29 questions that required fun and punchy answers. Below, everything from Brown’s pre-party jam to her proudest moment.
- Sara D. Anderson
Favorite ice cream flavor:
Chocolate
Last beauty product you put on your face before going to bed:
SK II Ultimate Revival Cream.
How do you take your coffee?
Iced in all weather.
Your must-have beauty items:
1. Laura Mercier eyebrow pencil in Blonde. 2. Estée Lauder Pure Color Stay-on Shadow Paint in the color Chained. 3. Bobbi Brown lipstick in the Sunset Orange shade. 4. Tom Ford lipstick in Pink Dusk.
The first thing you do when you go home to Australia?
Exhale.
Last restaurant you went to and loved?
Barbuto, now and forever.
What’s the perfect weekend trip out of New York?
Paris. ;)
Last purchase you made?
Pinot noir.
Favorite movie you’ve seen in the last two years:
The Lego Movie.
What’s your pre-party jam?
"Bad Girl" Riri.
Best date you’ve ever been on:
Café Luxembourg, a dude, endless giggling.
Favorite person you interviewed:
Tilda Swinton. And Christy Turlington, because she’s my mate.
If you came up with your own Essie nail polish, what would you call it?
LB-eezus.
Last person you texted?
An inappropriate man.
What food do you splurge on during the holidays?
I don’t need a holiday to splurge on food. Pasta at Barbuto.
What song is playing in a movie about your life?
"Whoomp! (There It Is)."
Last book you read:
What is a book?
What’s your favorite emoji?
Koala!
Foundation or BB cream?
Neither – concealer.
What’s the best part about your job?
The epic people I get to create things with.
You can’t leave home without…
Keys.
First cassette tape/ CD ever purchased:
INXS. Which I pronounced “Inkses.”
Who is your fashion icon?
Charlotte Rampling.
Favorite Harper’s Bazaar cover of all time:
Then: Jean Shrimpton by Richard Avedon. Now: Christy Turlington by Dan Jackson.
If you could dine with anyone living or dead, who would it be?
Mike Nichols.
Kangaroos or dolphins?
'Roos!
Who are your favorite bloggers?
My buddies Garance Dore and Leandra Medine aka Man Repeller.
What do you like on your pizza?
Cheeeeese.
Proudest moment in your life.
Moving to New York, and I’m still here.
By Sara Anderson. Photos by Kevin Sturman
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