---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MKA LIVE CHAT at WWW.MARY-KATEANDASHLEY.COM DATE: March 18, 2000 TIME: 9:00am PST, 12:00pm EST, 6:00pm GMT EVENT DESCRIPTION: live chat with the mary-kate olsen topic: "fash talk" This is an UNOFFICIAL EDITED TRANSCRIPT provided by FalcoN, the webmaster of http://starlets.dhs.org/mkao *** This transcript has been editted and only contains material pertinent to the chat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [11:03] Hi, it's me Mary-Kate!, and we are ready to talk FASH!!! [11:04] Hey Everyone, thanks for joining in this Saturday morning, thanks for all your E-mails! [11:05] I get so many e-mails and letters about fashion, so we decided to talk about where we like to shop, what we like to wear, what kind of styles we like. [11:05] I also want to tell you about how we get our look for each movie. [11:05] We are preparing for a movie right now where we are going to Australia. [11:06] First of all, we just kind of read the script, talk with the director, and discuss what kind of character we are going to play. [11:07] and then Ashley and I and the stylist sit down and discuss the kind of clothing we're going to put on the character. [11:07] then Judy, the stylist, has to go out and shop the stores to find the clothes, and to design the clothes we can't find in stores. [11:08] The stylist goes through Europe, New York, and other cities to see what's cool. [11:08] She also goes through all the magazines to see what they're showing. [11:09] Then, she puts together racks and racks and racks of clothes and Ashley and I get to go through the clothes to see what we want to wear and what looks good, and what fits good!. [11:09] and then our stylist dresses us from head to toe with clothes, AND accessories, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, hair things, and purses. [11:10] we LOVE purses! [11:11] When we get off the set we usually put on our regular clothes that we wore when we came in. [11:11] One of the big problems we have is we like clothes, but lots of times we have to have them cut down to our size. [11:12] Then the stylist brings the clothes to our house and we do a fitting. [11:12] Usually Judy, the stylist, brings in all the clothes and we choose what clothes we like and what clothes we dont like. [11:12] When we put the clothes on, they have to pin it to make it the right size. [11:13] After they pin them, the seamstress has to take the clothes apart and then sew them back in the new size!!! [11:13] We usually have to do 2 or 3 fittings for each outfit! [11:14] But also, usually for a movie if there is like an action scene or like a scene they don't want us to do for insurance reasons, we have to get two or three sets of the same clothes in case some get ruined. [11:15] In Passport to Paris, in the moped scene, we had to have two sets of clothes because of insurance reasons. [11:15] As a matter of fact!, one of the characters in Passport to Paris, half the clothes she used were hers, when she got to Paris the airline company had lost her luggage! We had to remake ALL of her clothing in 2 days for the film!! [11:16] You probably want to know what kind of stores we go shopping in. :) [11:16] In California, we shop Melrose, Santa Monica, and in New York we go to SOHO. [11:17] And we go to San Fransisco and shop. [11:17] Sometimes Ashley and I think of an idea for a really cool outfit and we'll talk with the stylist and have it made. [11:18] We love shoes!!!, especially Ashley!. [11:18] We like to wear high heels, flats, open-toed shoes, tennis shoes, depending on what we're dressing for. [11:19] We love make up!, Leslie is our makeup artist and she does our makeup on all of our productions. [11:19] We do our own makeup at home. [11:20] I love Kiehls lip gloss, and Stila lip gloss! [11:20] Usually for eye makeup we wear a little bit of eye liner and sparkles. [11:21] Usually I wear my hair down, but if i don't feel like doing anything I'll put it in braids. [11:22] And now here are some hot Spring fashion tips! [11:22] Skirts made out of scarves. [11:23] Indian-beaded bracelets (Native American). [11:23] Cowboy hats. [11:23] Triangular-shaped shirts. [11:24] Watch the fash column to see what that looks like next week! [11:24] Platform shoes. [11:24] Scarves in the hair. [11:24] Low-rise pants. [11:25] Rhinestones are really big. [11:25] They go on the shirts, and purses. [11:26] Leopard and Zebra prints on everything! [11:27] Also retro-looking clothes like 70's. [11:27] Thank you for joining me, tune in next time! Watch the site for the schedule! CIAO!!!! --This is Mary-Kate signing off.