Monica Padman | Who What Wardrobes | Who What Wear
Tom Ford for UGA tailgates, cheerleading championship rings, heirloom jewelry, American Doll fashion, and Brandon Maxwell gowns. Monica Padman hosts us in her home for this installment of Who What Wardrobes.
Director: Stephanie Romero
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Associate Video Producer: Kellie Scott
VP, Creative: Alexa Wiley
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
Director: Stephanie Romero
Cinematography: Amusement Productions
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Sound Mixer: Jason Flaster
Associate Video Producer: Kellie Scott
VP, Creative: Alexa Wiley
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
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00:00 I guess I should have said wrinkled as one of the three words that describe my style.
00:05 Hi Who What Wear, I'm Monica Padman, and today we're gonna go through some of my favorite pieces in my wardrobe.
00:12 I think I would describe my style as
00:18 classic,
00:21 eclectic, and pretty. So these are some of my favorite pieces.
00:28 This one is a Norma Kamali dress.
00:33 Nicole Chavez
00:36 styled me in this for Jimmy Kimmel.
00:40 I did it with Dax, and it was the scariest day of my life.
00:46 I was so so nervous, but I felt so good in this dress. So this blazer
00:54 was a hand-me-down. We call it a bell-me-down. Kristen gave it to me.
00:59 But before she had given it to me, I was getting it dry-cleaned for her,
01:05 and it was in the back seat of my car. This is when I was assisting her. It was hanging and
01:10 my windows were rolled down, which I did not realize, and the
01:18 jacket flew out of the car, and
01:23 I heard something, and I looked back, and I just saw the sleeve kind of
01:28 tattering away, and I had to pull over and run into traffic to get the jacket that was
01:34 in the middle of the street.
01:36 I didn't know if it was fancy, and it was hers, and I had just started working for her,
01:41 and I was like, "I'm gonna get fired because this jacket's gonna get run over."
01:45 It's a very special piece to me because I saved it, and
01:50 yeah, she gave it to me. Wasn't that special, turns out.
01:53 Okay, so this is a very basic sweatshirt, but I wear it all the time.
02:00 I love the color. It's a very
02:04 specific kind of mauve, and it's really worn in because I've had it forever. It's Elizabeth and James,
02:11 which was Mary-Kate and Ashley's
02:16 brand before the Row, so it feels very limited because this brand doesn't exist anymore, and it's some of the best-fitting.
02:24 I also have a t-shirt that's Elizabeth and James, and it's the best-fitting t-shirt I have.
02:29 So I'm pretty sad that they don't make these clothes anymore, but I have moved on to the Row, which
02:38 is a little bit higher of a price point, but that's okay. These are the Row pants, and I
02:45 wear them all the time. I mean, I think I wore them two days ago, which is why they are a little stained and
02:52 have wrinkles all over them. I didn't prepare well for this, obviously, so
02:57 I'm a little bit of a mess, but I wear these all the time. They were an investment,
03:03 but I've really got my money's worth because they go with everything, and I love them. They're so soft.
03:09 These are
03:12 red velvet.
03:14 Tom Ford pants. I got them last year to wear
03:19 to a University of Georgia football game. I went to the University of Georgia, and it's a huge football school.
03:27 The games are so fun, and
03:30 in the South,
03:33 you get dressed up for football games, so you wear like full-on
03:36 dresses, full face of makeup, heels to your tailgate, and then to the game, and
03:44 I got to go back to a football game this year, and I was like, you know,
03:49 what am I gonna wear? It has to be fancy, but it also has to be elevated. It's a new me,
03:55 and so I got these pants, and I love them, and they really worked.
04:00 This dress I got at the Paris flea market. I was
04:08 done shopping. I had got some furniture and some other little pieces, a little like bowl, and I
04:15 was done. I needed to be done, and I was walking to my Uber,
04:20 and I saw this in the window, and I thought, if this fits me, I have to have it, and
04:28 it fit me, so
04:31 I bought it, and I love it, and it feels so romantic to me.
04:37 It feels very
04:39 classic, and I feel like
04:42 she wore this. I feel like she actually wore it, like when I channel her when I'm in this.
04:49 This sweatshirt is maybe one I get the most compliments on whenever I wear it. It draws the eye.
04:57 It's from John and Vinny's, which is a
05:03 restaurant in Los Angeles. Very delicious. It's so good, and during the pandemic,
05:09 they had a little
05:12 store where you could buy
05:14 fruits. You could buy your groceries, basically, and then they had some other little things, and they had this sweatshirt,
05:20 and I was, like most people, pretty lost during the pandemic in buying any
05:25 sweatshirt or sweat pant that came across my screen, and this was one of them, and so I bought it, and it was
05:33 with
05:34 Project 43. I wish I could tell you that I knew what that meant and what it is. I do believe it to be
05:42 philanthropic,
05:45 and
05:46 yeah, so I love wearing it, and I love this little guy. It's a little bear on front.
05:51 Okay, so this is a sweater, also wrinkled.
05:57 I guess I should have said wrinkled as one of the three words that describe my style. This is very special.
06:04 Kristen brought this back
06:06 for me
06:08 from, I
06:10 want to say Italy or Paris, and it says "facts" on it because I'm the fact checker for my job, and
06:17 also, I believe in justice and facts.
06:23 This is a Brandon Maxwell
06:27 gorgeous dress,
06:29 gown we could say, that I found because, ding ding ding,
06:36 Hilary Kerr was wearing this on
06:40 Instagram, and I thought I must have that immediately, and so I bought it. It's beautiful.
06:47 I have not, it still has the tag on. I haven't worn it yet.
06:49 I'm saving it for a gala that I have not been invited to,
06:53 so, you know, putting it out there that if anyone invites me to a gala,
06:57 I will be wearing this dress, and I can't wait. This dress I love.
07:03 It's vintage. It's Fendi. I got it at this little Austin
07:09 vintage store that I sort of just came across.
07:13 It's super easy. I love a dress that you can just slip on, but it has
07:21 like a vibe to it. I love the collar, and
07:24 I normally pair this with a tennis shoe so that I could kind of high and low it, but I love this.
07:32 She's so pretty, and she's so easy.
07:35 Okay, so these pants are also from the vintage store in Austin.
07:41 I love a pleat. I just am a real sucker for it.
07:47 This sweater is from Alexandra Golovanov.
07:50 She has a store in Paris, and just makes the most beautiful cashmere sweaters.
07:56 I was there last year, and I got this one. I love the covered buttons on it.
08:01 It's cropped, but she has so many different styles, but they're all very classic,
08:05 and I feel like last you forever, and then I got some little Gucci loafers.
08:12 Cannot go wrong with a Gucci loafer. I love the white. I also have a white Gucci
08:17 Jackie bag that I feel like pairs really well with it. Okay, so these are
08:24 Jordans, and
08:27 Dax got really into Jordans, or he's always been into Jordans, I guess,
08:32 but he got into like gifting everyone a bunch of Jordans, which was very generous.
08:39 And these are my first pair that he got me. It's...
08:43 I forget the print. It's called like animal...
08:46 something, and they're so cool. As soon as they arrived, I was like, "Oh, I get it.
08:52 I get the need to like collect a sneaker."
08:54 So I have a few other pairs of Jordans too that I've since got, but these are my first ones, so they're special to me.
09:01 This is my
09:05 everyday bag. This green, I feel like, is
09:09 really rare. I haven't seen it since, since I bought it,
09:14 and I love it because it's so
09:18 classic, but the green kind of gives it something a little bit different.
09:22 I keep everything in here, and my laptop is currently in here. I keep the cord. I travel with this.
09:28 It's such a luxe bag, but it really
09:31 delivers. Like, it is durable. It comes everywhere with me, and
09:35 she's really pretty. These have never been worn in my adult life, but they probably are...
09:44 They're probably the two most important pieces in my entire home.
09:50 They are my state rings
09:53 from high school.
09:55 I was a cheerleader, a competition cheerleader in high school, and we won state my junior and senior year,
10:01 and they give you rings for that.
10:03 And they say my name. They say school. It was
10:07 such a big deal at the time, and still, it was sort of the first moment that I learned that hard work really does pay off.
10:15 So these are really, really important reminders to me. Now, this is all tangled. I tried,
10:23 before we recorded this video, I
10:26 solicited a lot of people in this room. There's more than just me in this room.
10:31 And to try to untangle it, and nobody could do it. But this is a
10:38 necklace that I love. I
10:42 stole
10:44 this pendant from my American Girl doll, Samantha.
10:48 She was wearing it on a teeny tiny chain, and I thought, "That is such a cute
10:55 necklace that this doll is wearing." So I ripped it off, and I put it on a real adult chain.
11:01 And I used to wear it all the time.
11:04 I haven't seen it in a bit, probably because it got all tangled, and I gave up on it. But
11:08 yeah, this is Samantha's
11:12 necklace.
11:13 This is a Chanel
11:16 Camellia
11:19 ring. I got this because I
11:23 would see really beautiful jewelry, and I would think, "Oh,
11:29 maybe one day
11:31 someone will buy that for me. Maybe one day for Valentine's Day, or for an anniversary, or
11:37 a man will buy this for me."
11:40 I was in Paris, and I was walking by, and I saw it, and I was in love with it.
11:46 And I thought, "Why am I waiting for that? There is absolutely no reason for me to
11:52 wait for somebody else to buy me this when I can buy myself this ring."
11:56 And so I did, and I love it. It's so pretty.
12:00 And
12:03 it kind of reminds me like,
12:05 you're good on your own. Not that there's nothing wrong with having a partner, but you can do things by yourself if you want.
12:13 Okay, so this necklace is
12:16 a peridot stone. That is my birthstone.
12:22 And my grandmother got me this when I was five.
12:26 My grandmother has an amazing jewelry collection. She's from India and has all this gold jewelry.
12:34 And so jewelry kind of means a lot to her. And so when I was five, she got me this, which I did not
12:42 appreciate until maybe like five or six years ago.
12:47 I saw this just like sitting in my jewelry box, and I thought,
12:52 "That is a gorgeous necklace. Why am I not wearing it?" And so I do now, and it reminds me of her.
12:59 And I love it. Those are some of my favorite pieces in my closet. Thanks for tuning in.
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