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- Hi Vogue, it's Cindy Crawford.
I'm here in New York City.
I have a very big day today.
We're going to the Empire State Building,
and I'm actually gonna end up at a Broadway show
that I'm very excited about,
but I'm gonna start out here at the gym.
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My next stop is my favorite place in New York to get coffee,
Balthazar, I go every morning when I'm here.
They have the best latte.
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Good morning. - How are you today?
- Good, can I get a latte with an extra shot of espresso?
So usually when I'm at home for breakfast,
I will make my own smoothie.
Here like at Balthazar,
they have a very good omelet with spinach and mushrooms.
That's one of my favorites.
If I'm with my husband,
he always orders French toast,
and I always have at least one bite.
I always say I try to be 80% good, 80% of the time,
because I feel like that's achievable,
and it pays off in the long run.
Thank you. - Enjoy.
You bet. - Thank you so much.
Have a good one.
Okay so I'm gonna get a shower,
but I'll see you guys in a little bit.
Thank you.
- Sure.
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So I have Genevieve doing makeup.
- Hi.
- And I have Christopher doing hair,
and I'm just having a very mellow morning
talking politics.
I'm going to the Empire State Building today on behalf
of Jones New York, but also Delivering Goods,
which is a non-for-profit.
And what I love about it is that they take new merchandise
from different manufacturers and companies,
and they take it to people in need.
When you partner with a charity,
you get to light the Empire State Building
and they get to light it in the color of the charity.
And today I'm lighting it up blue, and I don't really,
I think I get to flip this switch.
They don't let me,
they don't want me to get near the control booth,
but I get to flip the switch.
- When I do my own makeup, it's,
I timed it actually, three minutes.
I look to Kaia.
I look at her makeup.
She's so good at it because I didn't
have YouTube growing up.
Like she,
if she wants to learn a makeup trend or whatever,
she just goes on YouTube and learns how to do it.
And she's not afraid to try new things.
I mean the great thing about makeup these days,
and if you watch shows like "Euphoria",
it's like allowing people to have fun with makeup.
There's no rules anymore and you should just do
what makes you feel good.
Okay so now I'm ready to get dressed.
I think it's supposed to rain later,
so I'm gonna grab this little trench,
and then I think I'm gonna go for jeans,
because I'm a jeans girl.
So that will be my look for today.
Little white shirt underneath.
I love a blazer and a Jean and a heel.
It's like, I feel like I can go anywhere in that.
Okay so I'm gonna get dressed,
but you guys can't come on this part.
- Okay so viola, I'm all ready to go,
and I'm just gonna get my bag together
and we'll get outta here.
So essentials, of course money and all my credit cards,
and ID and all that.
My speech, my remarks for today.
Gum cause you talk to a lot of people
and I might have some more coffee.
My phone, of course,
but I usually put that in my back pocket.
And let's, well just a scarf in case for later tonight,
but also ties my bag in with my outfit.
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I spent all my twenties in New York.
I love New York.
I loved living here.
I just love the energy of the city.
And even though I live in Malibu now.
Whenever I come back, I'm excited to be here.
One thing that's really different about my generation
to let's say Kaia's generation is I didn't grow up
wanting to be a model.
I didn't even really know what a model was.
Didn't really know any models.
I think the first one I was aware of as Phoebe Cates
from Teen Vogue.
And I remember going to the first agency in Chicago
and starting out small doing catalog.
And one of the big reasons I got in to see some
of the best photographers right away
was because people thought I looked like Gia Carangi.
They were like, baby Gia.
We have baby Gia.
And it's funny, they say that about Kaia now, today.
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When American Vogue left my beauty mark on,
it was like okay that a beauty Mark can be accepted
as being beautiful,
not something that you have to cover up or retouch off.
It might not seem like such a big deal today,
but the generation of models before me was all
like blonde hair and blue eyes.
So even the fact that me, and Christy, and Linda,
we were all more brunette,
and like that was the beginning of showing
that there isn't one ideal of beauty,
that you can find beauty everywhere.
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So here I am at the Empire State Building and they asked me
to leave a piece of memorabilia.
So I chose my book "Becoming" which it came out right
when I turned 50.
But in it is my very first Vogue cover.
Once you have your first Vogue cover,
that's like the fashion world seal of approval.
There was another page in here.
I was looking for it that it had all my Vogue covers.
Oh here, this is what I was looking for.
Those are my Vogue covers.
That's crazy.
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I forget how to sign my name sometimes.
Voila.
Okay it's showtime.
I have some remarks to make.
[audience clapping]
Since 1985, over two billion dollars worth of product
has been donated and distributed
through Delivering Goods network of community partners,
serving individuals and families affected by poverty
and disasters worldwide.
[audience clapping]
- [Man] One, two, three.
- Gonna go? [audience clapping]
Ah there we go.
[audience clapping]
So here we are on the 86th floor
of the Empire State Building.
- [Man] Thank you Cindy.
- Beautiful. - Thank you Cindy.
- And I have to say it's a very nice view.
Okay, so now I get to meet a friend for lunch.
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[classical music playing]
Hello.
- [Woman] Hi.
- How are you?
Pardon my [smacking lips].
I get to have lunch even on a busy day
and I got to meet a friend,
and since it's Vogue, of course,
I called one of my supermodel friends to have lunch with,
Helena Christensen.
Over the past few years we reconnected about kids,
and also, I mean, in some ways we're still connected
to the fashion industry.
Even when you think you're retiring,
or kind of getting out of it, you're not.
- So we're all kind of in the same boat from the beginning.
We have the history, we have the present,
and the future too,
and the kids you know, which is,
I think really beautiful that you and I especially
kind of reconnected via them. - Yeah, yeah.
- Which I love. - It's very cool.
- Something really special happened when we all came
to the scene.
- But I think the difference is the importance
of social media,
and it just adds one more layer to really what your job is.
Everything you do, then there's also the social media part.
Like just when you think-
- That's the biggest difference really?
And I'm so relieved that we did not have to deal
with that side of our business for all those years.
- How happy are you that not everyone
had a camera all the time?
- Yeah.
Cheers.
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- So it's always great catching up with Helena,
and now I'm headed to Jones New York,
and I will be reviewing the campaign images.
Also I get to meet with some women from Delivering Goods.
- Hi Angie.
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- One of my favorite things to do in New York
is go to the theater.
And so tonight I'm going to see "Jagged Little Pill"
by Alanis Morissette,
and I have to say, I am a huge Alanis fan.
Her first album, "Jagged Little Pills"
spoke to like my generation of women.
It gave us a way to like express anger.
I think so much of women's music before that.
It's like, so poppy, and it's like falling in love,
and like all rainbows and butterflies.
And for me, Alanis was like,
she gave me permission to have feelings
that weren't lady like.
And so I'm really excited to see the show on Broadway.
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Well thanks for hanging out with me today.
It's been fun. And now I'm off to see the show.
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