Sophie Conti
occupation: intern for Harper’s Bazaar, student, and freelance stylist
“The transition moving from Paris to Greenwich was so bizarre. People don’t know where to categorize you. Everyone’s wearing Vineyard Vines and little belts with miniature whales and sea horses and lobsters. I would go home and my mom is wearing chinchilla high waisted underwear and a kimono.” Sophie Conti
If Larry David and Bridget Bardot had a daughter, it would be Sophie. She is as dry and direct as she is stylish and coy. Her “Shoe Episode” story (in the video) about the co-worker at Dior in Paris, who runs out on their lunch break to buy the same Balmain-inspired shoes as hers, is no-holds-barred refreshing honesty and hilarity. Then there is the “Louboutin/Herve” or “Too Ferocious/Not Enough Compensation” Episode. Sophie was walking down the street in an anorak that she chopped into too short a dress with a blazer and “too sexy” Fendi boots, and a truck driver “with Jersey plates” yells out to her, “Where are your pants?” And she said “it hit home,” (her mom’s voice, “Sophie, it’s too much”), and proceeded to run into the nearest boutique to buy flat chunky ankle booties to balance the outfit and drops the heels at a friend’s. Then there is “The House Burned Down Episode,” when at 6 she moved with her family from Paris to London. Her grandmother, “the little Jew from LA, the personal shopper at Nordstrom’s, the sailor suit queen,” came to visit them, and left her cigarettes and lighters all over the place for her and her brother to play with, and the rest is history. Her dad was “freaking out,” her grandmother in the sailor suit was “having a heart attack,” her mom, matter-of-fact, said, “Well, I guess we’re staying at the hotel tonight,” her brother still standing there with the lighter, and Sophie in her scalloped blouse, navy cardigan, and Mary Janes, always stylish while alittle mischievous. The “exposed and awkward” family picture in the local paper afterwards was straight out of a Wes Anderson film. Her brother, Thomas, looking “like the naughtiest boy,” is quoted: “It hurts my heart”. “That was the end of that stage,” says Sophie. Her family then moved back to Paris, where her mom started working for Sonia Rykiel, who had a “dope children’s line,” and Sophie was into a new form of expression in rhinestones and stripes. Today, a touch of France in her timeless cabernet suede pumps, with some trendier New York faux reptile leggings and even a bit of Greenwich in her oversized button down wrinkled men’s shirts with shit-kicking shoes and rose wine by the pool, Sophie’s a force to be reckoned with. All Libra-Scorpio intensity and passion (takes one to know one), I am looking forward to the continuing unrestrained, while the height of sophisticated, adventures of Sophie Conti.
If you like Sophie, you might also enjoy Siena Fleming, Byrdie Bell, Liz Ricketts, or Liz Doupnik.
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December 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
eloise, eloise, eloise…you cawnt cawnt cawnt…
good to see a grand eccentric raconteuse of the future featured.
December 9th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
care to share who makes those studded flat booties?
December 9th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
pour la victoire, You know?
December 9th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
FUNNY BITCH, do like.
December 9th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
i couldnt help but stare at her massive portrait on the wall of her loungeroom?! i honestly couldnt get through the entire clip as it felt like i was watching an unnecessaryily dramatic performance of a chirpy, annoying little shop assistant…
December 10th, 2009 at 5:20 am
i fucking love her. she can come sleep at my place whenever, i’ll have her as my best friend
December 10th, 2009 at 5:43 am
This is one of my favourite videos in this website. Absolutely loved her.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Hilarious!!!!
December 10th, 2009 at 9:00 am
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD you are my shinning star!
December 10th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I fucking love her personality! she´s so open and eccentric!!!!!!! I bet that no matter what she´s wearing, she is always be the center of attention no matter where she goes! Love love love her white roses headband. so romantic x
December 10th, 2009 at 10:03 am
JE CONNAIS CETTE PETITE COQUINE!! was a great pr girl for dior, i see big things for this one.
December 10th, 2009 at 10:22 am
quirky
gorgeous items x
December 10th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
She’s the best!!!
December 10th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
@b
to know Sophie, is to know someone entirely genuine. I can guarantee that you are seeing Sophie as she is in life, relaxed, eccentric and above all fun. The portrait is as Sophie would put it “self masturbatory” but she is totally in on the joke. Her roommate, Tali who will will be shooting for the site soon has one on the opposing wall. The photo’s are a fun kitchy ode to each other and their friendship. It only takes but a minute of being with Sophie to fall head over heels in love with her.
December 10th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
i totally agree with sam. sophie and i feel in love many moons ago over our shared libra-ness. i have watched her style evolve SO much in the past few years and it is fucking fabulous. and just check out that YSL fur! It’s like a big bear i wanna hump.
December 10th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Wow, she’s nuts. A little bit over the top for my taste but still completely likeable. And I am in love with her style!
December 11th, 2009 at 11:34 am
This is my favorite video so far. She *cracks* me up and yes, she has amazing clothes and a wonderful sense of style.
December 11th, 2009 at 11:45 am
i really want to like her but i am honestly annoyed. She has a great spirit.
December 11th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
omg im a scorpio and WE ARE NOT LIKE THAT.
I had to stop half way through.
Just awful personality.
good god
December 12th, 2009 at 2:09 am
she is fabulous!!! i love her
December 12th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
absolutely positively fabulous. the coolest nugget around. sophie always has the right outfit to wear that is sexy, edgy, chic and creative all the same time. she is incredibly unique in personality and style and a true gem. her work ethic is also prodigious, very organized, focus, and driven. this girl can accomplish anything! (and it all fun at the same time)
ps. i think the portrait is “ferosh”
December 12th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
oh i love her
December 12th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
krista seems to be a jealous of this gorgeous girl?
December 13th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
she’s a ball of fun! i like her! great clothes too.
December 13th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Super rad portrait of her above her couch… that is so hilarious and awesome.
December 14th, 2009 at 5:04 am
[...] think this chick would either annoy me to death, or we’d get along famously. Hard to tell. But damn, [...]
December 14th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
This girl is amazing! I admire her ferocious sense of style! She seems like a “real” person who isn’t afraid of showing off her eccentric side! What’s really awesome is that she never crosses the line of “too much” so she never looks vulagar!!! I mean who else could pull off those Tom Ford for YSL shoes and still looks chic!! Wish she was my best friend because I could really see us going shopping together while she gives me great fashion advice!
December 15th, 2009 at 3:37 am
I’m in love
December 16th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Fucking love this woman. *MEOW*MEOW*MEOW* I want to pack her up in my suitcase and carry her home with me.
December 16th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Love her. [and her clothes] the attitude she has about it just makes me smile!
December 19th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Loved her fur vest- where did she get it? Is it vintage? I loved hearing her recap on the duplicate heels and loved her polaroids lined up on the wall!
December 20th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Lady, ferosh = understatement. Go big or go home, and keep doing what you do.
PS: Krista aka #19 — do tell, what are Scorpios like? I mean, since you’re the expert and all. Do they collectively leave scathing -unnecessary- comments on the big, bad world wide web? In a place that celebrates unique individuals, the round pegs in the square holes, no less. How easy it is to be a hater behind the comfort of your veil of anonymity. Meanwhile, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that most of the StyleLikeU audience disagrees with you.
December 21st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
@ Maryellen
she said snap, and i liked it
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:58 am
LARRY !!!!!!……its like the open midriff
December 28th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Yes Sophie is absolutely NUTS…and I love it!!! I adore her style, and her personality is just out of this world!!!
December 28th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
love her!! love her style!
December 29th, 2009 at 10:10 am
So chic! So hilarious!
January 3rd, 2010 at 11:42 pm
DOES ANYONE KNOW THE NAME OF HER MUM’S BLAZER LINE?!??!
I WANT THAT BLAZER!!!!
January 4th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Putting aside her fabulous style for just a moment, Sophie is charming, brilliant, kooky, fun, funny, wickedly articulate, creative, adventurous, and unabashed. And that’s just on her video!!!
She is so strikingly notable, one cannot help but caught up in her enthusiasm for fashion and life itself. And yes, Ki, it’s so true-
she’s a rockin’ raconteuse as well!!!!! Viva La Sophie!
(as for u, “b” – u r obviously shopping in the wrong shops if Sophie reminds u of a shop’s assistant. )
January 5th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
sophie embodies fabulous PERIOD
January 7th, 2010 at 8:21 am
while her style on it’s own is awesome, the video highlights how it is the personality and vividness of character that brings that style to life.
January 8th, 2010 at 9:13 am
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January 11th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
stephanie, which shops do u reccomend? haha! Viva La a world devoid of rich mummy’s girls who think they’ve adapted style that money can’t buy… here’s hoping…
January 20th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
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January 28th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
who is that headpiece by?!
February 4th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
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February 10th, 2010 at 7:08 am
i simply love her style,she is gorgeous
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:31 pm
She is awesome- simple and so classy.
I keep coming back to this video!
February 26th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Whats up! Fantastic concept, but will this really function?
EMELY
March 1st, 2010 at 1:54 pm
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March 15th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
hilarious! i have known this girl since 7th grade and she hasn’t changed a bit!
March 21st, 2010 at 6:55 am
i laughed. shes funny. and i loved the headband thing
March 26th, 2010 at 11:20 am
[...] and Michael (or Maj and Faj, as their daughter Sophie lovingly refers to them) are happy to be considered gypsies in their hometown of Greenwich, [...]
March 26th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
She has a great sense of humor, so funny. Wonderful family
March 30th, 2010 at 9:00 am
My favorite by far.
May 13th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH THAT BITCH!!!! HAHAHAHA
June 17th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Ah! I LOVE her!!!
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