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Amanda Brooks: ‘I’m Quite Practical’

Amanda Brooks.
Amanda Brooks. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

Stylist Annabel Tollman interviewed Amanda Brooks (prior to her abrupt departure from Barneys last week) about her daily dressing habits. She apparently has a primary closet, a secondary closet, and several boxfuls of clothing in her basement. “I’m quite practical,” she insists. “Occasionally I wear shoes I can’t wear on the subway, so there are flats for the train and gym clothes in an Alaïa tote.”

Related: Fashion Week Style Diaries: Amanda Brooks of Barneys New York