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she adds, and Tinsley laughs with genuine affection. “My sister is my best friend. She’s incredibly loyal.” Dabney is full of life, turning up the music and sharing her latest discovery for the best leggings in the city. Tinsley contributes with her recent obsession: “J Brand leggings and LNA tees with holes in them” – and we both acknowledge loving her new, edgier look. She still likes a pretty party dress, but now she’s mixing it up a bit. Torn jeans. A black knit hat worn low. Rocking out to moodier hits such as Iron Maiden’s Fear of the Dark and Skid Row’s 18 and Life. Not so girly-girly after all, and just a little badass because we all know nobody puts baby in a corner. The rest of it -- a Virginia native who enrolled at Columbia University, did brief stints at Vogue and Harrison & Shriftman before marrying her Lawrenceville sweetheart Robert Mortimer, their recent separation – “is all on the internet,” shrugs Tinsley. “Some of it’s true, some of it’s not.” I admire that she refrains from adding how some entries lack a shred of human decency; Tinsley accepts both the glamour and the responsibility even when the latter requires unimaginable restraint.
A fellow Columbia graduate, talk turns naturally to the core curriculum and staple class Literature Humanities. “I loved Boccaccio’s Decameron,” Tinsley responds immediately. “Here was a man writing during the plague, a time when everyone was consumed by thoughts of death, destruction and fear of god.
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The New Look:
Tinsley paints it black
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