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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

HQ Scans: Dakota in "Teen Vogue" Magazine [October 2004] + Interview Transcription



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Interview Transcription.

So innate is Dakota Johnson's affection for Hollywood, her sometime hometown, that she can scarcely finish a sentence about her style without swerving off to the subject of the silver screen. "I like to pull together a bunch of different looks," she begins. "I get some of them from movies, you know? Like Almost Famous? I love that seventies style, all the crazy colors and the huge flared bell-bottoms. That's my favorite movie in the whole world." she gushes. "Kate Hudson is so cool and awesome."
It's only when she concludes her breathless little outburst by citing one time when the starlet "sort of" babysat for her that Dakota fully sets herself apart from every other fourteen-year-old film freak. See, mom Melanie Griffith, dad is Don Johnson, and she calls Antonio Banderas, her stepfather, papi. Factor in that her gradma, actress Tippi Hedren, was a favorite of Alfred Hitchcok's back in the sixties, and it's easy to explain Dakota's avid interest in the industry -- Hollywood glamour is in her blood.

Which isn't to say that she cruises around the campus of her all-girls Catholic boarding school clad in the Working Girl's old Oscar gowns. "My mother always looks beautiful and elegant," she explains, "but my style is very laid-back." Aside from the unavoidable plaid-skirt uniform -- Which Dakota makes more palatable by raising the hem "a bit higher" than the three-inches-above-the-knee-regulation--- C&C California shirts and anything from Abercrombie & Fitch are her favorites. "I like that both their clothes are beachy," she says, "and a little worn-out. You might as well be comfortable." But never sloopy: "One thing I learned from my mom is how to make an outfit look pulled together, even if that just means adding a pretty accesory." Dakota's signatures? A gold heart locket and colorful stacked bangles. She pairs them with everything from her ripped-up Chip & Pepper jeans and a sequined cardigan to the minidress she layers under a short-sleeved skater sweatshirt.