Paris Reid is a model and a student with Cher-like lengths of platinum blonde hair and bleached eyebrows. She says she hesitates to call herself "any kind of artist," but she clearly gets excited when talking about the arts. She makes ceramics, but loves visual art, poetry, and, most importantly, archives. In her free time, she goes through memorabilia on Etsy, eBay, and Japanese auction sites to find what she describes as "beauty in the mundane." She spoke with the Cut about '60s Dutch magazines, Paco Rabanne, and eating roots.
There's this cool magazine called Gandalf that was published in the Netherlands in the '60s and '70s. It was kind of subversive for the time.
Something in the water, for sure. Maybe crabs or starfish or those bioluminescent fish.
Slippers, I have so many pairs. I'm one of those people who can't walk around the house in bare feet.
Everything. I like to have my secrets.
EBay, perpetually. I never buy anything, I just religiously put things on my watch list. I love Etsy, eBay, and Japanese auction sites.
Someone who did something things really avant-garde, like Courrèges or Paco Rabanne. Or, I miss Alexander McQueen.
Oh, I never set an alarm unless I have to wake up for a flight.
Coffee, black. And rice with sesame seeds.
Ginger in any incarnation, Japanese pumpkin, and turmeric. That's a limited three things, but I think I could do it.
This gold chain. It was my grandmother's before she died and it means a lot to me. Beauty can be very mundane, in a way, that you might not really notice.
I love sensory questions like that. I think it would change day by day. Today it would be blue.
My sisters, if I could treat them as a single unit. I don't know if I could handle being trapped in an elevator with anyone else.
There's too much and not enough at the same time. He's a symptom of a larger American disease. That's what I have to say.