00:00 I know how to paint you guys, so if anyone needs anything, wall paints, window paints, I'm around.
00:06 Hi, I'm Marina Sheikh and today I'm gonna let Elle ask me anything.
00:11 What does a typical day look like for me? Well, I get up at 7 a.m., very last minute,
00:20 cook my daughter breakfast, prep her for school, bring her to school, go work out,
00:26 do my appointments, pick her up from school, so it's basically my schedule surrounded with my
00:31 daughter's schedule. But if my daughter is not with me, I love to be in bed till 10 a.m.
00:37 and have a breakfast in bed. Easy.
00:40 I would probably say Jane Fonda. You know, I think she's so much fun and she has a great
00:50 sense of humor, so Jane Fonda. Who is my biggest inspiration in the fashion industry? It's my
00:57 dear friend, Riccardo Tisci. He's so amazing and he's so much fun, he's so creative, he's definitely,
01:04 you know, a biggest inspiration of young generation. And Edward Ellington, because I think he brought a
01:10 new wave of new vision into fashion. Donatella Versace, she's a strong, powerful woman.
01:19 The best advice I've ever received from my mom? Take no and turn into a yes. And I'm a
01:26 Capricorn, so I'm very stubborn. How do I respond to negative? I think I just take everything with
01:34 kind of like sense of humor, you know. I love to laugh with my friends and make fun of myself
01:40 and my friends, so I don't know, I think there is no space of negativity in my life and I'm
01:46 kind of concentrated only on positive. What's my favorite thing about motherhood? It's the honesty
01:52 of my daughter. She would call me in anything I would do. She likes to make fun of me in a like
01:59 silly, funny way. I think it's the best because she's just very straight, honest and she's really
02:05 funny and she's like my best friend. My favorite look that I've worn on a red carpet? I think what
02:12 I wore for a red carpet in Campbell Festival, Malola. I love her. I think she is a new vision
02:20 of young generation and it was like this leather skirt and kind of like crop top. It was like very
02:25 open and a little bit provocative and sexy for the red carpet, but I think she's a woman who
02:30 understands women. Do I have fashion regrets? I kind of don't have any regrets. I think it sounds
02:37 a little silly, but it's like I think you learn from your mistakes and there's so many pictures
02:45 out there where I look and I was like it's absolutely not me, but at least you have something
02:51 to laugh about, right? So no regrets. My first ever job? I was painting a hospital room for like 31
03:01 days because I wanted to get high heel shoes. It was my summer job and I got like $8 for a whole
03:08 month. It was pretty harsh, you know, because you have to like paint from eight to five every day
03:15 and now I know how to paint you guys. So if anyone needs anything, wall paints, window paints, I'm
03:22 around. My first ever money that I got, I was working in some exhibition like some crazy hours.
03:32 I think it was like seven day job and it was like $100 paid and it was a lot of money for me
03:37 and my mom wanted a new sofa so I collected this money and I sent it to her and she got a new sofa
03:44 and she was so excited. So that was my first ever money spent on my mom's sofa. I wish we had it,
03:50 the sofa, but we don't. I think cat or dog's on it or something like that.
03:55 I grew up playing piano and singing in choir. Don't ask me to sing because it would not be
04:01 cute right now for sure. My mom is a classical pianist and I think what made me fall in love
04:07 with music and is hearing her playing piano every day. I mean of course Tchaikovsky, Mozart,
04:13 Beethoven, like classical music has definitely made me fall in love with music and now music
04:18 is you know my everyday life. When I wake up with the music I go to bed listening to music so yeah.
04:23 If I would only have three things in a fashion wardrobe, I mean sweatpants.
04:31 Well I wear sweatpants for my gal after party. I just love to be comfortable. I know this is
04:38 not what everyone want to hear but I definitely need sweatpants in my closet. A little black
04:43 dress that you can reuse. I love recycling clothes so black little dress, sweatpants
04:51 and some comfortable shoes. What's my ever favorite fashion piece that I own? Okay I shouldn't say
05:02 that but I'm really big at taking shoes from fashion shows. Okay so when you walk to my shoe
05:12 closet you can see shows that I did and shoes you know so if I do a show and there is a shoe missing
05:19 do not call me okay. I'm not giving it back. So probably it's this really cool Givenchy boots.
05:30 They're kind of like high up the knee with like a color heel. I think it was from like Egyptian
05:35 collection. I love those shoes. I love, I love, I love it so I'm definitely saving and passing
05:39 it to my daughter. So it would probably be those and I took them from the show. I'm really proud
05:45 of it by the way. What is my bucket list? Well kind of say like don't tell your dreams otherwise
05:51 they don't come true but a couple of photographers that I want to work with and definitely on my
05:57 bucket list is more travel. I've never been to Australia and New Zealand and I want to go back
06:02 to Madagascar because it's my favorite, favorite, favorite place to go. So definitely job goals,
06:10 travel and spend more time with my family. Yeah that's my bucket list. My beauty mantra is
06:18 definitely stay away from the sun, drink tons of water and definitely a lot of sleep. When you rest
06:25 it you feel so much more energized and I think just be happy you know because when you're happy
06:33 I think you glow from inside out. I'm really, really, really excited to shoot for Elle. The team,
06:40 the energy, a rainy day in New York and just can't wait to see pictures. Thank you so much for hanging
06:46 out with me and Elle today. Hope you guys had fun and check out my cover that is out now.
06:51 (upbeat music)
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