Amanda Hearst’s Stuff February 14, 2008
Posted by 68thandpark in Profiles.trackback
Inspired by Vanity Fair’s “My Stuff” survey, I asked Amanda Hearst to share a few of her favorite things…
LIVING
Where do you live: Upper East Side, Manhattan
Favorite art: Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Sam Francis
Pets: Many! Three dogs, four cats, an emu, a rabbit, a wallaby, three miniature goats, chicken, geese… all in the Hamptons, of course!
Favorite neighborhood restaurant: Via Quadronno
Favorite cocktail: Mojito
Who inspires you: Oprah Winfrey
Necessary extravagance: Deep-tissue massage
Favorite place in the world: Punta Islita, Costa Rica
CLOTHES
Designer: Catherine Malandrino
Jeans: Earnest Sewn
Underwear: Calvin Klein
Sneakers: Nike
Watch: Franck Muller
T-shirt: American Apparel
Day bag: Chanel
Evening bag: Yves Saint-Laurent
Favorite city to shop: Paris
BEAUTY
Lipstick: Laura Mercier’s “Sexy Lips”
Mascara: Maybelline Great Lash
Shampoo: Pantene Pro-V
Moisturizer: Kiehl’s
Perfume: Michael Kors
Toothpaste: Supersmile
Soap: Dove, unscented
Nail-polish color: Nude
Who cuts your hair: Marco at John Barrett
Who colors your hair: William at John Barrett
Photograph © PatrickMcMullan.com.
Amanda is my favorite socialite!
Lovely girl and lovely choices… she is a true jem in society.
It’s refreshing to see some normal responses from a wealthy socialite. She doesn’t seem to be affected by the lifestyle. Yay!
Is she really as great as she seems? I would be very sad to hear otherwise. She is one of my favorites for sure.
I LOVE Catherine Malandrino. Obviously this girl has excellent taste!
She is stunning.
Amanda is a sweetheart and I can personally attest to this. She is very grounded and has nothing to prove to anyone. Not that this should necessarily matter, but she is, hands down, the prettiest girl in society. Love her choices here… I think that it is just adorable that she keeps a menagerie in the Hamptons.
I love Amanda Hearst. Beautiful, grounded, and always stylish.
I have never heard anyone say a bad word about her.
And that’s fabulous!
Rock on girl !
Profiles! This is what I hope to see more of on this site, James. Let the ladies tell us about themselves instead of the readers/commentors building often distorted images of socialites they may or may not know. This one is a gem!
So pretty, but so bland. And Catherine Malandrino stopped making new styles or interesting clothing back in 2002.
Gosh, she’s gorgeous! I love how she’s dating Lapham’s son–shows that she is intelligent. This picture makes me LOVE high society and the thought of people really living such glamorous lives!
Do this for Arden Wohl asap!
You should ask for favourite shoes not sneakers (which no socialite should ever be caught in). Maybe you omitted it because everyone would probably put the same answer, Christian Louboutin?
I am honestly in love with this girl. She has it all. Winston, dude, you’re a very lucky man.
I have been trying to get an appointment with Marco for months now… no joke! She seems charming and very down to earth.
I don’t know why (probably because she’s a Hearst) but I expected her to say something different for the Beauty section. I just never imagined her using Pantene and Dove… I think it is very endearing that (gasp) she’s just like everyone else. I liked her before but like her even more now. Rock on, Amanda!
All interesting to know.
Please start asking that Fabiola, Tinsley and Tory Burch, too!
I use Supersmile! It’s actually a great toothpaste. And… love Michael Kors’ perfume! I love this girl’s taste.
Amanda has always been my favorite Socialite. So grounded and humble. Modest and classy. Endearing and likeable.
She really is very very pretty in a refreshing natural way- loved the unscented Dove -
i think she’s fab too, great post james!
i dont know though, am i the only one who gets a little shocked by her roots now and then? But i do adore her. She just radiates a nice personality from her photos.
ditto to what kay said. i love amanda hearst. can you please include her in your blog as much as possible? thanks!
She and TM use John Barrett salon??? The roots please -
Whats with the words “normal” and un effected. Yeah what ever. Just because you use inexpensive makeup and shampo does not make you “normal”. The whole “I am just like you” act is annoying. Sometimes I wonder if these gals answer questions out of guilt. One should never be guilty about what they have. Its silly.
If one can afford the best why would one NOT use the best.
200 hair cut with 3 dollar shampoo. Oprah Winfrey? Middle americas queen. Come on people. ! But maybe they are “just like every body else, or ‘normal’ . We all know that just because u have a ‘last name’ does not mean that you are among the wealthiest of the land. NONE of these names are on the Forbes list anymore. And its not because they choose to be anonymous.
Even if there were bad things to say about Amanda no one would because they are afraid! Same with Gillian. Lydia is an exception, well, because, let’s see…she makes Paris H look classy. Also in every interview she comes across as obnoxious and hopelessly uninformed (but I guess that is to be expected from someone who takes college classes on- line). Anyone read about her in the Observer fauxcialite article last week? Then you know what I mean.
Point being, no matter what no one ever dares talk negatively about Amanda or Gillian. Because that’s just the way it is. But how many years did it take Amanda to graduate from college? Six?
Oh I get why these chicks are unaffected. LOLOL. Its because most of them are NOT sitting on the fortunes that most think they are. So why would they be ‘affected’ and or ‘not normal’.
Afraid of What ? Calloway? LOLOL. What is everyone so afraid of .This is not the 19th-20thcentury anymore. These ‘names’ dont have much pull outside of the 10021. Pahleeeze.
she is very pretty and seems very down to earth
Pam Stein, you sound like the worst kind of new money. Maybe she uses Dove soap because she doesn’t have anything to prove because she is comfortable with who she is and where she fits in the world. I think what people don’t realize is that Waspy types (which I think she probably is?) probably couldn’t care less what any of us think of them, as long as they can continue to live the lives they enjoy. And if they like a lower end product, they use it, because using and expensive shampoo doesn’t define their vision of themselves. They just like it.
I honestly think Amanda Hearst is simply fabulous. She’s gorgeous. And to date, I cannot think of one time that she has made a style mistake. This survey makes me like her even more. I like that she uses stuff like Dove and Pantene… but at the same likes Punta Islita and Chanel. She has absolutely nothing to prove to anyone. I love this girl now!
She just uses pantene and dove because they work. Same with Maybelline. It doesn’t make her humble, just reasonable. She has a menagerie in the Hamptons — more power to her, but that’s not down to earth. She’s grown up knowing her family heritage and enjoying it, as she should. And she likes Pantene, big whoop. It doesn’t define her character; it’s just not that big of a deal. Her hair looks great. If it looked better with Frederick Fekkai shampoo, maybe she would use that.
However, I’m impressed with her poise and style and taste. At her age that’s pretty impressive But if you’ve grown up a Hearst, you probably skip the Bonne Belle lip balm and Limited Express stage.
@Augh!First off money is not new . 2nd Ask me if I care? go ahead ask me
And AUGH you are silly to think that anyone who name drops the John B salon at Bergdorfs is not trying to prove something! LOL…
But again Augh.. more importantly .ASk me if i care about your (outside the gate looking in through the fantasy pages of blogs and magazines) opinion of anything NYC . Go ahead ask me :).
And to anyone else reading this who doesn’t think these gals care! Oh yes they care , thats why they try to come off as “Normal” and “unaffected” LMAO . What Eva! . And they read every word and sometimes they even comment ! Trust..*winking*
Pam Stein 26 from the 10005 PLEASE shut it…..
$136K to maintain according to the article in harpers is far from Normal. Why down play it? Stop trying to make other people comfy with your ’status’
Alix. Why? can you not handle the truth .
I live in the city, thanks.
No “Pam Stein 26 from 10005” (we know, we know it’s an inside joke) your posts are like nails on a chalk board. Honestly who posts 3-4 times in a row? Do seriously have that little going on in your life. “Please ask me if I care”….please, please, pretty please pay attention to me on this blog because I am SUCH an insider…RIGHT….
Also, I guess to say that someone doesn’t care what others think of her is a silly statement- everyone cares. A more accurate way to put it is that I think it’s possible that she didn’t sit around and analyze her answers as much as…we are analyzing them for her. Maybe she legitimately just put down what she likes.
Alix you eat the left cheek now and save the right for latta !
. Moving on.
All done with the cyber fight LMAO
Pam Stein, just because they don’t have quite as much money as some people think they do, they are still Hearsts, and for whatever reason, people do not speak badly of them, speciicially Amanda and Gillian. Try it sometime. I guarantee you that people will think that you are evil. I am not saying it is right or wrong, it just is.
I remember in previous posts we seemed to agree on a lot of things but I don’t know anymore.
Augh, to say that WASPy types don’t care what they think of them? I hate to be blunt, but that is a really dumb statement. I know of many WASPy types - espeicially the ones on this social scene - who are ostentatious, and plenty of non-WASPy types who are down to earth. Did you ever see the 7K rocks that some of these “WASPy” ladies sport? Again, a really dumb statement.
Definitely a babe!
Calloway an old monied last name only has power if you give it power. So to say someone is evil because they have an issue with a last name is funny and a bit much. LMAO. It warrants a huge ” get over yourself stamp.” Nothing personal Calloway and we will disagree, but umm money is what gave those names power. So as it fades so does the power . Simple as that! . I will let the
‘Try it sometime’ remark pass , i will label the remark as ‘Calloways opinion’ and you are free to have your own opinion of things, because I sure have mine. In a nutshell no one who puts themselves out there is above being commented on. And comments are not always pretty.
Maybe people don’t speak poorly of her because they like her. I haven’t noticed anyone holding back on some of the other socials with big names.
Pam Stein you’ve posted 10 times in 24 hours. One would think that an insider such as yourself would surely be far too busy to exert that much effort on what most people consider a brief albeit entertaining break in their day.
However this is the last time I will bother to respond to your comments; it’s easy enough to skip right over your posts.
Cheers!
Cheers!
I stand by my wasp-y statement, but am not necessarily referring to the women on this site.
Augh: why? Given that your statement is pretty misinformed.
Amanda has never ever made the pretension that she is some international glamazon Casiraghi or Al Fayed. She uses Dove, Maybelline, and Pantene… but in the same breath, travels to Punta Islita and uses the impossible-to-book Marco at John Barrett. She has nothing to prove to anyone.
Amanda and her cousin, Gillian, are pretty, all American, girls… no one says anything negative about either of them because they are both kind and total sweethearts.
Amanda & Gillian are girls you want to hate, but can’t. Everything just comes so easy to them! Born beautiful, rich… and unpretentious & smart to boot!
This is what NATURAL beauty looks like… (*ehem, Tinsley.) Anyone who has ever said that Tinz is as good as it gets in the social circles is just defending their queen. I’m sure that they have eyes like I do.
If you knew any of the socialites #54you would know that Tinz is as good as it gets with personality. Maybe Amanda is more of a natural beauty, but Tinz has a real unusual look in person, huge smile, etc.
and she is good looking. Amanda just never has anything to say but she’s nice. Anyone who knows Tinz knows how funny and unaffected she is. Ask any socialite. Who would they rather hang with? Tinz or Amanda. BTW, all this Hearst talk is really funny. The best part of Amanda’s name is her middle name Randolph, from Va. Randolphs. Tinz is middle name Randolph too.
Andrew R, I have no doubt Tinsley is more fun. BUT, Amanda’s name comes from her grandfather William Randolph Hearst, an American tycoon if there ever was one.
Tinsley’s middle name comes from her ancestor Thomas Jefferson whose mother’s maiden name was Randolph… and half of Virginia claims to be a descendent of TJ. So it’s not like Amanda is trying to copy Tinsley.