Emily Ratajkowski: “Today I am more concentrated on my happiness, rather than on how I am perceived”

The best quality of Emily Ratajkowski It is always knowing how to surprise its audience with something unexpected. Indefinable with a single label, the American model, writer and actress, has become an icon of 21st century feminism, making her body a political manifesto (she even sold a NFT with its own image stolen from a photographer, Using the title Buying MySelf Back).

Has collaborated with Marella For the capsule collection Emily Ratajkowski x Marella: seven models of blazer Inspired by timeless Italian elegance, but with contemporary details and an original signature, as expected as an emrate.

How did you work with the Marella team?
«We inspired many blazers of my wardrobe or I wore in the past. It was fun to find a balance between my aesthetics and that of the Marella woman ».

What is your approach to design?
«It’s not my first time: I’m the only designer of my swimwear brand, in love, and I have a background in art and design. Working with a brand that has a specific point of view is always an interesting challenge, because it is a question of remaining faithful to their world and mine. For this collection, I imagined living in Milan and how my wardrobe would be there ».

What does the blazer love?
“Which can be worn in many ways: it can play with masculinity but also become extremely sexy.”

He took the campaign on Lake Como. What is your relationship with Italy?
«I fell in love with Italy the first time I was there, almost 15 years ago. I have returned countless times in many regions. I always imagine a period of my life in which I will live there ».

Emrata, as is known on social media, is an eclectic character, indefinable in a word. 33 years and 33 million followers between Instagram and Tiktok, is a model, essayist, podcaster, entrepreneur and actress: soon we will see her in the Netflix series Too Muchof his friend Lena Dunham.

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We Italians remain quite formal on clothes and opportunities for use. Do you feel a difference with the American approach?
«New York is a city where you dress with care, but in the rest of the United States, in particular in South California, where I grew up, it is the opposite. I really appreciate the way they dress both men and women in Italy. There is timeless elegance that is distinctly Italian ».

Has your style changed over the years?
“I think that with age there are more and more opportunities to dress in an elegant way, and I love playing with silhouettes that I would not have considered at 20. The biggest women are very inspiring to me. “

She overturned the idea that we have to dress in a certain way to be credible. When did it become aware of it?
«I would say from puberty. There are some key memories that I told in my wise book, On my body (in Italy released in 2021, Piemme Editore, ed.). Since I became a mother and I have passed the thirty years I feel more comfortable with my “contradictions” and more concentrated on my happiness than on how I am perceived ».

Dresses can be an armor. What does he wear when he wants to feel confident?
«Heads that have a meaning for me. I think the central point of dressing and fashion simply concerns feeling of oneself ».

She strongly believes in female instinct: how do you learn to listen to it?
“Ignore all the others! Build trust and respect for yourself ».

Is there a turning point in your career?
«Publishing my book was both personally and professionally. I’ve always been a creative person, who wants to “realize” things, and that was my first experience from a public point of view ».

In 2021 he had his son Sylvester Apollo (from the ex-manufacturer husband Sebastian Bear-McClarded). Has it changed after becoming a mother?
«My life has slowed in many ways thanks to my son. I love leaving the phone in another room and being present with him. He helped me to be grateful and understand how quickly the time passes ».

In one hundred years as they would like to describe it: Emily Ratajkowski was the one that …
“… he knocked down the boundaries! And he made that film, book … that people loved ».