Jenna Lyons, the founder and CEO of LoveSeen—and star of Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives of New York City’ reboot—invites Vogue to step inside her fashion-filled home.
Director: Catherine Orchard
Director of Photography: Mike Lopez
Editor: Sammy Cortino
Producer: Qieara Lesesne
Associate Director, Creative Development: Alexandra Gurvitch
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Audio: Sean Paulsen
Assistant Camera: Eliza Kamerling-Brown
Gaffer: Billy Voermann
Hair Stylist: Ashley Person
Makeup Artist: Kaoru Okubo
Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Production Manager: Kit Fogarty
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Post Production Coordinator: Jovan James
Post Production Supervisor: Edward Taylor
Director of Content, Production: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
Executive Producer: Ruhiya Nuruddin
VP, Digital Video English: Thespena Guatieri
Photography by Annie Leibovitz
Director: Catherine Orchard
Director of Photography: Mike Lopez
Editor: Sammy Cortino
Producer: Qieara Lesesne
Associate Director, Creative Development: Alexandra Gurvitch
Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg
Audio: Sean Paulsen
Assistant Camera: Eliza Kamerling-Brown
Gaffer: Billy Voermann
Hair Stylist: Ashley Person
Makeup Artist: Kaoru Okubo
Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar
Production Manager: Kit Fogarty
Line Producer: Romeeka Powell
Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier
Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Supervising Editor: Kameron Key
Post Production Coordinator: Jovan James
Post Production Supervisor: Edward Taylor
Director of Content, Production: Rahel Gebreyes
Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson
Executive Producer: Ruhiya Nuruddin
VP, Digital Video English: Thespena Guatieri
Photography by Annie Leibovitz
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PeopleTranscript
00:00 It's probably one of my most prized possessions
00:01 and I might bury myself in it.
00:03 [gentle music]
00:08 I'm Jenna Lyons and we're in my house
00:13 and we're gonna go through some of my objects of affection.
00:16 You've probably been here before.
00:18 If you haven't, welcome.
00:20 I think this entire apartment was
00:29 the first time in my life that I got to do
00:31 exactly what I wanted.
00:32 I'd always had some restrictions.
00:33 I'd always sort of been working with constraints,
00:36 whether it be my job or even my own personal situation.
00:39 And yeah, I wanted something special.
00:42 I wanted this to be like my apartment apartment,
00:45 not my like transitional apartment, but like my apartment.
00:47 And so I kind of went for it.
00:58 Okay, this is,
01:00 [dog barks]
01:02 this is something I've really never seen before.
01:05 It is a Braille Playboy and I can obviously see,
01:09 but I think it's pretty remarkable.
01:12 The stories in Playboy used to be so good
01:14 that they would actually have them translated into Braille
01:16 so that people could read the stories.
01:19 They had people like Truman Capote writing for Playboy,
01:22 which I think is pretty interesting.
01:24 It is a big topic of conversation.
01:26 Everyone who comes over picks it up
01:27 and it's by far one of my favorite gifts.
01:29 This little guy is another one of my favorite things.
01:40 This is a gift that I got from my team
01:42 when I was at J.Crew probably, I don't know, 10 years ago.
01:46 It's a crown of J's.
01:47 Like who doesn't need their own crown of J's?
01:50 These are also a special kind of sequin
01:52 that you can't really find anymore.
01:54 And then they've been sort of patinaed, my favorite thing.
01:57 (growling)
01:59 Someone thinks there's a bone in the bed,
02:03 which I don't think there is.
02:04 Anyway, I'm really into this thing.
02:06 I do love it.
02:07 And I like the fact that it has little tears hanging down.
02:10 Next is a big one.
02:13 I don't know if she needs an introduction.
02:20 She's had a lot of exposure.
02:23 It was my first time going to the Met Ball
02:24 and I was very excited.
02:27 I left feathers all the way down the red carpet,
02:30 which I feel badly for all the interns
02:32 who are picking them up.
02:34 I also wore it to Solange Knoll's wedding.
02:35 And as I was walking into the church,
02:38 she asked everyone to wear white.
02:39 I normally would not wear white to a wedding.
02:41 As I was walking into the church,
02:42 there was a paparazzi, it's not my picture.
02:44 And that picture has been seen across the world.
02:47 I think that picture is more popular than I am.
02:49 Anyway, it's all beaded and hand embroidered
02:52 by a company called Shemiza.
02:54 They did all the embroidery and beading
02:56 for Oscar Laurenti and they've worked with Chanel.
03:00 It's some of the most delicate and fine beading
03:02 you've ever seen.
03:03 A lot of people have asked me if they can buy it
03:05 or rent it for their wedding, to which I always say no.
03:09 It's probably one of my most prized possessions
03:11 that I might bury myself in it.
03:12 Okay, so this is one of my prized possessions.
03:23 This is a sculpture my son Beckett made for me
03:26 when he was four.
03:27 And I don't know why I love it so much, but I do.
03:30 Here is a quarter on the bottom.
03:32 And he glued a light bulb and a bunch of staples
03:36 and a little toothbrush holder and a screw all together.
03:40 And it just makes me happy.
03:42 It reminds me of like an art depo thing.
03:47 I'm super into it.
03:47 It's one of my favorite things.
03:49 It's come with me through every move to every apartment.
03:52 And one of my other favorite things that's on this wall.
03:55 This is the Polaroid that Annie Leibovitz signed
04:01 and gave to me in 2005.
04:03 And I know that because I had just found out
04:09 that I was pregnant with Beckett.
04:11 I was in Vogue, I was in the shape issue.
04:14 So I was the tall girl
04:15 and Annie Leibovitz shot me in my office
04:17 and she signed the Polaroid
04:19 and I have a print that she sent me as well.
04:22 So another sort of surprise piece.
04:25 This is from my senior project.
04:28 I went to Parsons and Donna Karan was my critic
04:32 and I was making this Dutchess satin jacket.
04:35 And she said to me at our critique,
04:37 "Can you make it down filled?"
04:40 And I don't know if I can explain.
04:43 I was, you know, 19, I had no money.
04:46 So I went to Bed Bath & Beyond and I bought a comforter
04:50 and then I double stitched it
04:51 and pulled all the feathers out in between.
04:53 And this is the end result.
04:56 I just found this in my mom's house recently
04:58 and look it, it still fits.
05:01 Can you believe I made this thing?
05:05 The one fail, I had to cut into pockets.
05:08 I just didn't do it.
05:10 (upbeat music)
05:16 (upbeat music)
05:19 I saw this when I was in Paris.
05:24 It was in a little tiny vintage store
05:27 and I fell in love with it.
05:28 What I didn't realize at the time
05:29 was the gentleman who owned the store
05:31 had really never shipped anything of this scale
05:34 and this weight, it weighs like 800 pounds,
05:36 to the United States.
05:38 And so I purchased it
05:40 and my office assistant Kate and Nicole
05:44 repeatedly called it the turd lamp
05:45 because it took literally 17 months to arrive.
05:47 So instead of calling it the bird lamp,
05:49 it became known as the turd lamp.
05:52 I think it's unexpected.
05:53 Like you think this thing to be really delicate,
05:55 particularly because it is a bird
05:56 and then you pick it up.
05:58 It's like the weight of a hippopotamus
06:00 and I think that juxtaposition is kind of great.
06:02 I also love the casualness of the way the cord
06:05 isn't necessarily strung through the center.
06:08 It's just kind of dangling on the side of it
06:10 and I love a cord.
06:12 I'm not a big fan of hiding every single thing.
06:14 I like knowing how it turns on.
06:17 Makes me happy.
06:18 Okay.
06:21 This is one of my prized possessions.
06:25 This is a French, I believe it's called an empire table.
06:29 It's got a French polish on it,
06:31 which I think is unique.
06:32 Also hard to find somebody to fix
06:35 'cause I've gotten a few stains on it along the way.
06:37 My son and I sit here and have breakfast very frequently,
06:41 always with candles, even in the morning.
06:43 And I don't know, it's just one of my favorite things
06:45 and I love the way it feels under your skin.
06:47 It doesn't, it's got a polish,
06:49 but it's not that lacquered finish
06:50 that I think you see so often
06:52 in furniture in the United States.
06:54 [gentle music]
06:56 Legs on a sink are sort of under,
07:07 like no one designs them beautifully.
07:08 If you look at what's available on the market,
07:10 they all look the same.
07:11 Of course, I went a little over the top,
07:13 but I do think it's an area that kind of
07:15 hasn't really been vetted in terms of design
07:17 and has more legs, no pun intended.
07:20 All of these little details are actually in the drawing.
07:21 And then after it was installed,
07:24 I took a spray bottle with salt water,
07:28 like literally salt water from the ocean and sprayed it.
07:30 So it got this soft patina.
07:31 You literally, anything like unlacquered brass,
07:34 like my faucets or anything, any metal,
07:36 if you just spray salt water from the ocean,
07:39 if you mix up some salt, it's a different thing.
07:41 But if you use ocean salt water, it turns in like 24 hours.
07:46 And here I did the test of the patina
07:49 to see what would happen.
07:50 [gentle music]
07:53 So now you've seen all of my objects of affection
07:58 and there's the door.
07:59 [knocking]
08:08 [gentle music]
08:11 [gentle music]
08:14 (piano music)
08:16 [BLANK_AUDIO]