With her sideways glance and impenetrable stare, Chloƫ was the reason for the reinvention of the horrible term "it girl" (as she was labeled after the movie Kids came out), her beguiling charisma refusing to be reduced to "sexy" or "pretty" or "cute" or any of the other tags the world uses to tell girls what they are.
Whatever Chloƫ was doing i her Darien, Connecticut, bedroom . . . listening to music, putting together clothes, dreaming about life in New York City . . . her zest for freely roaming around space with an attitude and outfit to match evolved well ahead of what is now the homogenized look of the Internet. Her dark-side style is like a breath of fresh air compared to the bland, candy-coated, Hollywood-ized proposal for female sexuality and the democratization of "cool". This book allows us a peek into her teenage bedroom and evokes the visceral thrill of getting dressed. Not everything has to be spelled out. She dresses in subtext.