“In order to be happy, you need to be sad,” like the way a heart beat goes up and down. “A flatline means you are dead,” Scarlett says. Our culture does not encourage us to feel. She had the good luck of parents that were very trusting of their – and thus her – inner world, and was always treated like an adult. Living between Los Angeles and France while growing up only enhanced the singular, inevitable point of view of Scarlett’s eclectic and elegant style — and her deeply analytical art that is created with an eye towards touching and uniting people. She is always glamorous, but in the most natural way. You might see Scarlett on the red carpet (that is, if she would ever care to be on one) or just hanging around cooking, which she loves to do, in some variation of the earth-colored, drape-y sheer t-shirt dress designed by her stepfather, Rick Owens. In either situation, there might be a minor change, like edgy ankle boot wedges or avant-garde sneakers and leggings, but with the same display on almost every finger of some of the most artful interpretations of tribal rings imaginable. They are taken largely from the collection of her mother, Michelle Lamy — aside from a mushroom ring which doubles as a mushroom cloud. Of it, Scarlett says, “it is very organic, which is what I’m about.”

Wearing a Rick Owens for Revillon fur that is savage in its raw, bold rectangular shape, Scarlett reveals a tattoo on the center of her chest– a symbol, taken from her studies of sacred geometry, meant to be the eye of her heart shell, which brings focus to this passionate part of her body. On matters of emotions, she has never been one to be content with the surface of things. As a kid, she remembers liking the challenges of a European math test, as opposed to the American ones. They demanded discussions on theory and writing and not just checking boxes. Of her art, like a teal-and-lace sweater worn backwards, she explains, “I want to inspire other people to be themselves as much as possible, to understand what wholeness means for them. I want to be critical, but critical in a way that still wants to create peace. I think it’s interesting how politicians are always ‘fighting for peace.’” Rather than dwelling on the fear of the news, things like symbolism, archetypes, myth, and magic are what pump the blood in Scarlett’s veins, like her one-of-a-kind, Gothic/Egyptian Rick Owens leather jacket with a crazy hood that has a ‘wizard’ vibe. Scarlett gets all of the “weird things that Rick tries (and doesn’t sell)… in other words, the best things.”

A multi-media artist, Scarlett is no shrinking violet, either in red tights with Gareth Pugh futuristic white and black commanding sandals or in the subject matter she raises questions about. She paints stories, often inside of sculptural objects of her own creation, like her ostrich egg series, which on its most simple level is meant to highlight how we tend to “stick our head in the sand” and watch Friends when we are afraid. Her over-the-top decadence — seen in her handbag (made by a friend) of bloody fingers and fake French nails, her Jackie-O shades, and her love of quirky, embroidered, Irregular Choice furry boots worn with a chic black Rick Owens dress — is inspired by the cross-dressers that were her nannies, like Vaginal Davis and drag artist Glen Meadmore (who is almost seven feet tall). Never one to avoid making a statement, Scarlett says, “I was happy, when I moved back to LA, that I could wear color again. In France, especially hanging out with Rick and Michelle, you start to feel uncomfortable in color because they’re always in drab putty. You would sit next to them, and feel like the pink elephant in the room.”

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