One Sunday back in September 2008, the television show 30 Rock and therefore Tina Fey had one of those crazy, ebullient ‘awards show’ nights that linger in the memory. Emmys, including Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Fey herself for an episode called Cooter. What noone could see on television that night was that the lining of her dress had been slowly creeping up her legs, and by the time she was onstage, it was bunched up around her hips. She looked startlingly gorgeous in a darkplum David Meister gown the vampiest thing I have ever worn, she says, when she got up to accept. Someone handed her the statue, and she shouted, Oh, nerds! All traces of the previous evening’s glamour were gone. With all that said… She clearly remembers that morning, a single person there. Whenever clutching a cup of coffee as if her life depended on it, she could’ve been any harried working mother who had dragged herself to the gym in rumpled workout clothes.
Until Tina Fey walked in. Now let me ask you something. Did I actually work out? Actually, the person before me looked nothing like the person who’d been on TV. Journalists are constantly asking Tina Fey if she is totally surprised by her success. On top of that, so it is partly to do with the fact that she is the most unlikely ‘glamour puss’ ever to triumph on this type of a grand scale. In this country, success usually happens when you are 22 and six feet tall.
On top of this, tV star turned movie star turned presidential election year sensation turned household name. You see, she thinks it over for only a second. On top of that, whenever carrying normalcy, hereafter there’s me.
What are your choices today in entertainment?
People either represent youth, power, or sexuality.
She says in the most sincere tone imaginable, That is this type of a lovely thing to say, when I share this with Fey. By which she meant that women of a certain age who are cool, funny, and smart but who are by no means fabulous who are as a matter of fact befuddled by much of what passes for fabulous these days are relieved to see Fey celebrated as such. Her existence is this relief. Anyway. Tina Fey was born near Philadelphia in When she was in grade school, a cousin gave her some hand me downs that included a ‘colonial lady’ Halloween costume. She stares at me and blinks a couple of times. Certainly, as an outfit. It was the Bicentennial! Then, another pause. Then, i will just wear it sometimes after school. It consisted of a bonnet, says Fey, and a burlap apron and a long skirt. Monty Python, Saturday Night Live, The Honeymooners. ‘You know who I kind of look like, when I was like nine I will tell people. Certainly, the Feys were a funny family.
Little Elizabeth Stamatina had her own intense fixations on certain TV ladies.
Shirley, Stockard Channing, Wonder Woman, anyone from The Love Boat.
They loved funny TV, that they often all watched together. For example, rosemary Clooney.’ I couldn’t look less like Rosemary Clooney, who had big blue eyes and blonde hair. Nevertheless, I loved the movie White Christmas I still do and I thought Rosemary Clooney was pretty, when I was really young. Nonetheless, suddenly she remembers something and whips out her iPhone. In one, from fifth grade, she looks a lot like a boy an unfortunate boy, she says that I have trouble believing it’s actually her. You can not see the skirt in the picture. As a result, she holds up her iPhone. Besides, that’s where I first learned the lesson, How will the outfit be framed on camera? Besides, she recently found some old photographs of herself at her parents’ house. Nevertheless, oscars as you look at a dress and think, No one’s intending to see surely not the top of it. Also, down below, I had on a chocolatebrown velour ‘A line’ skirt, tights, and Hush Puppies. I’m wearing a blazer. Peter Pan collar.
What’s up with the collar on that shirt?
This one there are all hand me downs. My mom had taken me to a haircut training school, where apparently they cut my hair by folding my head striving to cut out a heart. With that said, she flicks the screen with her finger, and up pops another gem from identical era. Besides, if you cut it down to here she gestures to her navel it looks slutty. Part of So it’s what works with your body. It looks matronly, So if you put me in something conservative. Notice, though her mother favored comfort and natural fibers in the seventies, lots of the women in the neighborhood preferred a zestier presentation. Preppy doesn’t work on me really. There’s something about the Greek thing where there’s only, like, two speeds. It does appeal to me nearly any now and hereupon, It’s certainly not my daytoday thing. Fey, who is half Greek, grew up in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, a very Greek suburb of Philly.
WASP body.
Fey.
The woman who did the costumes tried to put me in these Waspy clothes, and it just didn’t work. Character Fey played in Baby Mama, a film set in Philadelphia, was meant to be a WASP. Basically, yeah, knockers up and tight skirts. Generally, candie’s, dark red nail polish, dark eyeliner, maybe a tight fitting animal print, décolletage, hair piled up. Notice, it probably had ‘threequarter’ sleeves, and it was very fitted through the waist. You can find more information about this stuff on this website. Talk about the power of clothes to make you feel like more than you are, she says as if she had just tried the outfit on this morning.
One day when Fey was in high school, she went to the Springfield Mall with her friend Sandee and came upon an outfit that spoke to her inner bad girl. It was an almost white denim suit. Know what guys, I just declared a drama major, that was much easier, hereafter I got there and realized there was no need to. It was there, in the costume department, that the seeds of her fashion education were planted. For instance, and after that later, uVA I became good friends with Dale Richards and Tom Broecker, the guys who do the costumes. That is interesting. When she went to the University of Virginia she intended to give all that up, get serious, and become a English major, fey was a total ‘dramaclub’ geek in high school. Oftentimes she understands the need for looking a certain way and at identical time understands the trappings of all of that. Needless to say, she has subtly changed what women look like on a weird level. Broecker is the costume designer for SNL and 30 Rock, and he and Fey also work together on her redcarpet looks. She’s so funny and so smart, and she gets all of it, he says. Really looking at yourself and going, ‘Yeah, I’m not cool enough for the West Village.’ She settled on the Upper West Side.
Fey moved to New York in 1997 to write for SNL, after five years in hicago with the Second City improv group.
She lived ever so briefly in SoHo.
New York is accepting what you are. He was right, says Fey. Oftentimes one day the writers at SNL were all sitting around the writers’ room when the legendary creator of the show, Lorne Michaels, walked in, looked around, and said, There’s not one stylish person that works for this show. Eventually, back in the seventies, quite a few the cast and the writers put some effort into looking cool. Now, at the tail end of the grunge period in the nineties, all the writers thought it was selfindulgent to be concerned with fashion. Fey herself kept her hair short and was 30 pounds overweight, that she blames on Chicago. You see, it was around this time that three big things happened. Generally, while joking about it, and Maya Rudolph and I started singing a little Mom Jeans song, i was going around the office complaining about them all night. Also, it was right before the low rise thing kicked in officially, and I inadvertently bought these jeans, and they had this enormous rise. Notice that she became the first female head writer in SNL history; and she had a fire in her apartment and had to run out to buy an emergency pair of jeans one day for work, Lorne Michaels asked her to audition for Weekend Update.
Others may avoid it because To name a fashion faux pas?
To coin a phrase is something special.
We just goofed around, and I wrote that up very quickly. Nonetheless, one day she caught an unflattering glimpse of herself on videotape and decided enough was enough. Furthermore, fallon started dating Tara Subkoff and planning to Imitation of Christ shows. Notice, fey, who finally had some money in her pocket, longed to buy some decent clothes. Let me tell you something. Fashionable breeze began to blow through the halls of Rockefeller Center, when immy Fallon arrived. That’s God’s work. Lots of information can be found on the web. Because I don’t need anyone to come there and try to kill me, she won’t say where, she also bought a little house in the country.
It was scary to be in that world of politics.
People started projecting politics onto me, she says.
Tina Fey has only recently splurged on herself with all that money she’s been making. Democrats who are just as rabid and hateful, and I found that just as shocking. There’re people who hate me now because of that. Just keep reading! It’s in the midst of a major renovation, She bought a much fancier apartment not far from where she lives. And therefore the partisan nature of politics continues to appall me. I’m sure you heard about this. She has even hired a decorator. So, ever since her devastatingly funny Sarah Palin impressions, she has for the first time in her lifespan attracted unwanted attention and hate mail. Fey’s parents are Republicans, and she herself is a Independent. Normally, are there any women today who have real power and who aren’t afraid of fashion? Which brings us around to a discussion of literal power and fashion.
It’s like the most amazing thing that can happen to a whitish woman in the twenty first century.
She dresses.
You have to go back to, like. She doesn’t wear a suit each day. Needless to say, oprah came to my apartment, she says. Make sure you scratch a few comments about it below. She laughs. Of all the crazy, ‘pinch me I”mdreaming things that have happened to Tina Fey in the last year, by far top was the day she was interviewed for O magazine. Oprah and Gayle were in my apartment, and they stayed for hours. For example, she’s feminine. You should take this seriously. So ultimately she says. How far do you have to go back before women with real power felt like they could wear something that wasn’t an apology for their gender? Now let me tell you something. She has trouble thinking globally that eighties power blue suit color that businesswomen and politicians still have to wear, when I believe of the word power with the word fashion. It is it’s a weird position to be in. We thought, These are powerful clothes. Like Hillary Clinton, what she wears is might be discussed and scrutinized regardless. You look at women who are actually leaders. I’m being responsible; I’m dressing appropriately for the occasion; By the way I do not look for to call attention to it, It’s a way of saying, ‘I’m showing up.
We should take turns wearing it to job interviews.
You have to beeleeve you are wuuuurthy to be on the cover.’ hereafter at one point he said very quietly, ‘Lift your chin.
He told her, You look like Stephanie Seeeeemour, when Mario Testino shot Fey for the cover of VOGUE in December. Her favorite moment. At one point I was posing for him, and he was talking from behind the camera and he was like, ‘You have to fliiiirt. Just think for a moment. That’s intending to work.’ at awards shows, I wear a deep Because it makes the triangles go the right way. Of the cleavage baring Prada dress on the cover? There are the things I learned from my friends who are cutter/drapers. Nevertheless, that V is good for me. Ok, and now one of the most important parts. Not good on me? Spaghetti straps. That’s not planning to work. Notice that she and Carell are scrambling up a fire escape and breaking into an apartment.
Madcap evening in Manhattan, Fey wears identical dress throughout the entire film, as long as the arc of the story takes place over one long.
In my real life I can’t bear anything that is inhibiting I detest to feel slowed down by clothes in general.
It’s darker. Basically, you will think I was making The Marie Antoinette Story, the percentage of binding. Now look, the dress was a real physical impediment. Remember, amongst the funniest lines in the film is classic Tina Fey an ad lib. When they’ve been doing best in order to find the dress, we tried on like 100 dresses, it was interesting to go into that fitting.
With Steve Carell, next month, Fey stars in the hilarious new comedy Date Night.
By the way I was often aware during filming that Steve Carell could move more easily than I could.
It’s a OK light blue. Underneath it I had on a custom made corset on top of Spanx, that were holding a microphone pack. Do comedy more easily than I could. It couldn’t be a grey dress, it had to show up at night; and it had to be flattering, He wanted it to move well being that we were running around the city a lot.i wound up wearing this custombuilt dress. You should take it into account. It’s not ‘my least favorite color’ blue. Remember, there were certain things that director Shawn Levy wanted. One is her engagement ring, the other an anniversary gift worn, she says, to impress you with my incredible wealth. Let me tell you something. You realize how difficult the process is, she says, when you actually finally have to attend awards shows. That’s interesting right? Your personality how tall you are, how short you are nearly any person.
Know what guys, I always find myself saying quite similar thing, whenever I work with a stylist.
Therefore in case I really blow it with this dress, I’m more about content, it’s fine, up until the last couple of years I always felt like, Well, I’m really a writer.
In any circumstances please do not dress like you’re never preparing to go anywhere again, when you go to the Oscars. Nevertheless, we wind up talking about getting ready for awards show season and all the ‘try ons’ and fittings and dress picking that it requires. Furthermore, I feel like I’m pretending to be from Los Angeles and I’m not getting away with it, I’d say if I try to wear loads of us know that there is a diamond ring on every hand.
One night in January I meet Fey for dinner on the Upper West Side.
While something that was not blackish or plum or brownish or navy a shimmering, silvery Zac Posen she wore last year to the Oscars, mostly there’s a Alberta Ferretti, a Gucci, and later, so as a result.
She didn’t wear blackish!’ It’s very old Hollywood. Normally, they let me keep this one. Essentially, they have been like, ‘Yay! Nonetheless, it’s tricky being that it mermaids a little, and that’s tough on a girl with a big can. Actually, i did know it by. Certainly, maybe I’ll just wear it one day to clean the house in. Just think for a moment. She laughs. So it’s intending to make me sound like I know what I’m talking about.
Oh, goody!
My girlfriends from work were all pulling for me to wear this one, she says.
Her finger lands triumphantly on the Roberto Cavalli with a plunging V that she wore to the Golden Globes in This is a great dress, she says of the Kevan Hall with a very fifties silhouette that she wore to the Globes in ‘He leaves room for lady parts. Now look, the corner of her mouth goes up in a self amused smirk. A well-known fact that is. She points to the Carolina Herrera she wore to the Emmys in I didn’t know therefore that you could tape your boobs up with doublestick tape, she says. When I pull out a collage of eight Fey photographs on the light red carpet in various dresses, she yelps and claps her hands. Eventually, will her Oscars dress be more conservative? With that said, more daring?
Know what, I wouldn’t hold your breath to see me in a fourfoot ruffled train with an origamiinspired front, golden Globes dress, she says. Fey gets clobbered for the Zac Posen number she wears to the Golden Globes, that took place on a rainy night that called for an umbrella and inspires more than one critic to remark that she looked like Little Bo Peep.
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