What do your sneakers say about you?
I want my sneakers to say you can still be girly and trendy and fashionable wearing sneakers. You know what I mean? Like there’s no wrong way to wear sneakers. Cuz I’m a girly girl, and I like to wear shoes, I like to wear pumps and flats and stuff like that. I like to wear sneakers too. I like to wear Guess clothes and Couture (?) stuff with a pair of Ups.
Well, that was one reason why I wanted to interview you, to represent the girly girls wearing sneakers.
There’s nothing wrong with girly girls liking sneakers!

Do you have role models in terms of how you rock your sneakers?
Magazines! I am such a girly girl when I think about it!
It’s just a matter of what magazine, right? Those of us who hunt sneakers in SLAM magazine, we’re still looking at magazines, right? We’re just not looking at the same ones as you.
See I like, where I find the ones that I like the most is like Cosmo Girl, and Elle Girl, and Teen Vogue. Especially Teen Vogue, because it’s like ALL about fashion. It’s not about like how much you weigh and all that other shit. It focuses on the clothes you wear and the shoes you buy, and the sneakers, and what not. And when I’m looking at the girls in the pictures, and like the styles from the different cities, especially New York. They always have these girls that have the phattest sneakers, with the phattest outfits! And they don’t technically match, but they look so phat! It’s really girly, like it’s what I would wear, with like the dopest sneakers that I’ve ever seen in my entire life. And it’s usually like in thrift shops in Brooklyn, and certain stores.
So what do you do, if you see sneakers like that in a magazine?
I see if I can find them, and if I can’t, I just keep looking at them in the magazine. I don’t have money…laughs.
What about those sneakers you got that were like crazy cheap? Everyone was hawking them, and you were like, “oh I got these for $3.50. I got these for $2.50" or something.
Oh! Yea, my little kung fu shoes! Laughs. I got them [in] New York for 2.99.
Yea, that was crazy! Everybody was talking about them!
Yea, they were like those adidas shoes that they wear, like the yoga shoes. I thought they were cute but I wasn’t going to pay, like 60 bucks for like lightweight sneakers. I was like, it’s just cloth and rubber. So yea, when I saw them there and they were 2.99, I was like, ‘Fuck it, I’m getting them.’ And my mom got two pairs. They’re not of any brand or anything, but they’re just so phat, because they were so cheap. And they look like the kung fu adidas.

Talking about crazy sneaker fiends…
I read about this random woman, not a famous woman, and she had like 500 pairs of sneakers!
I would do that. If I had mad money, I would buy a whole…no, I would have a closet, and I’d put days-of-the-week sneakers. And I’ll have like my sneakers, and I’ll do the same things for my pumps, I’ll do the same things for my boots, I’ll do the same things for my flats, my bubbly shoes…
But how do you know which day of the week you’d wear which sneakers?
I’d accommodate my days of the week to wear them.
What if there was like some weather issues? Oh, you’d probably have a whole different shelf, bad weather Monday, bad weather Tuesday, bad weather Wednesday….
Even so. I’d still wear them. I’m rich. I’d have the freaking limo driver pull up, and walk to the car, like…
“Excuse me, I need another pair.”
Laughs.