The author talks Donald Trump, Fashion Week, and her friendship with Toni Morrison
Photo: Catherine Servel There seems to be a big misunderstanding. “Many people, especially young women, have an idea of me that’s just incorrect,” Fran Lebowitz said. “I was not an activist, a feminist, you know, [yet] people thank me for this. And I hate to turn down any gratitude that I might possibly inspire in someone, but I always say, ‘I wasn’t that person. I was never an activist.’ I was never an activist in anything. I never thought it would work.
There is her posse, which reads like a dream dinner party guestlist: the designer Diane Von Furstenberg, the political columnist Frank Rich, former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, and the celebrated Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison . And there is her style — her uniform of Levi’s jeans, Anderson & Sheppard blazers, tortoiseshell glasses, and cowboy boots, which are made by who-the-hell-knows-but-Fran-is-definitely-not-telling-you.
She is flabbergasted by the #MeToo movement. “It never occurred to me this would ever change. Being a woman was exactly the same from Eve ‘til eight months ago. So it never occurred to me that it would change. Ever. I can tell you that it’s probably one of the most surprising things in my life. The first forty guys who got caught — I knew almost all of them.”
So what if the accused guys — many of whom she knows — lost their jobs? “It showed that most of these guys are totally replaceable. They’re gone, and so what? There’s still movies, there’s still television shows, there’s still comedians.” A few years ago, Fran told Vanity Fair that Donald Trump was “a poor person’s idea of a rich person.” “You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump,” she said. I asked her about the pivot from her early work, which focused more on cinema and books and the people who made those worlds dazzle, to political commentary. “That’s because you’re forced to know about politics now,” she said. “During the Vietnam War, I was very involved in politics and interested in politics.
Photo: Catherine Servel The one thing she likes to shop for is books. Fran said she can read for nine hours straight. She used to read mostly fiction; now she’s reading more non-fiction. “I am like a slut of literature; I’ll read anything,” she said. She also likes the AARP magazine. “It’s not really a good magazine,” she said. Everyone else she knows throws it away. “But I would never throw away anything that had some good print on it.
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