The Look Book: BFFs

photo by Glenn Glasser

Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Model and Musician (above left), and Sarabeth DeLeury, Philosopher and Actress

I know I highlight NY Mag’s Look Book (and in turn, Glenn Glasser) nearly as often as it’s published, but I just CANNOT help myself this morning; it’s the BFF edition! There are three interviews, so go check out the others too. But this one– this one, folks, is just priceless. Welcome to Monday.

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You two seem, um, very close.
CHARLOTTE: We’re not lesbians, we’re business partners. We’re about to
make a music video with my boyfriend, Sean Lennon. It’s going to be us
hunting Sarabeth; she’ll be Diana.

How did you meet?
SARABETH: We met first at a friend’s house. Charlotte walked in with
one of her breasts hanging out and someone said, “Hey, your breast is
hanging out,” and she said, “That’s okay, I have another.” CHARLOTTE:
She’s the coolest person in the world, and I have really good taste.
SARABETH: We became best friends and traveled the world together. We
went to Europe and to L.A., where our car was seized. We both had
mental breakdowns.

Breakdowns?
CHARLOTTE: Breakdowns and breakthroughs. SARABETH: We have this very
interesting cyclic cycle of energy when we’re together that sucks in
the most interesting people. CHARLOTTE: We’re friends with Sean Parker,
who invented Napster, who just sold his business for like a billion
dollars and always carries around a syringe filled with antidote.

What do you do together, other than attract interesting people?
CHARLOTTE: We used to play a lot of chess together in Washington Square
Park with all the homeless men. But then Yoko Ono got me into Go, a
Japanese chess game that’s more sophisticated.

Do you have summer plans?
CHARLOTTE: We go upstate to this amazing nature preserve and share
clothes and money in this utopian way. It’s a beautiful farm that Yoko
has landscaped, and we eat watermelon and make art. SARABETH: We’re
trying to create a new way of moving forward as a collective so we can
make money and help people.

Tell me about a crazy thing you’ve done recently.
CHARLOTTE: We saved a deer that got hit by a car. We found it on the
side of the road. It was foaming and bloody, and we laid on it and
hugged and stroked it. It got up twenty minutes later; it had regained
its energy.