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Three of the most It-Girly of It Girls cover the new issue of W Magazine. Willow Smith, 15, Zendaya, 19, and Kiernan Shipka, 16, all got profiled (separately) for W, but oddly, Zendaya’s profile is the shortest one. Like, I would have thought she would have had the most to say about life and fashion. While I love Kiernan, her profile is a snooze too. So that leaves us with Willow, our new ambassador for Chanel. At the end of the day, I actually get it. I get why Willow is an It Girl. I get why she’s a Cool Teenager. And I’m okay with it. In fact, I think she actually is stylish, cool and interesting. And considering how her parents raised her, I think Willow has turned out okay. Here are some highlights from Willow’s profile:

Her safety-pin-accented dreadlocks: “That was my idea. I was in my bathroom yesterday and saw some safety pins on the counter and was just like, ‘Let me stab a dread real quick.’ When I did it, I was, like, ‘Oh, this is dope.’?”

Whether her parents tried to tame her style: “Only when I was 6 or 7. I wanted to wear things then that might have been too crazy. But now they know I set my own boundaries.”

How “Whip My Hair” came about: “I kept telling my parents that I wanted to sing, and they said, “Okay—we can get some writers and producers here if you want this to be real.” So they got all those people in a room, and I was talking, talking, talking about the things that I loved, and the writers came up with that song. It was a beautiful experience.”

Her bedroom posters: “I have John Lennon. I have a bunch of Hindu posters that are more like tapestries. And I have Tupac. He’s a tapestry, too.”

On Justin Bieber: “I love Justin. I love every single one of his songs.”

Her movie-star crushes: “Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux. They’re so beautiful in Blue Is the Warmest Color. I don’t really like the crude sexualness of the movie, but I like all the scenes that aren’t porn. My favorite love scene in a movie is in Avatar—when they’re at the tree of souls and they’re communing with Eywa.

She’s anti-3D: “3-D movies make my head hurt. I can’t watch them. I know, I know [that’s weird for my age]. I prefer regular film. And I prefer to be unusual.”

[From W Magazine]

My parents were pretty laissez faire with what films I consumed, but I think even they would have had an issue with a 15-year-old watching Blue is the Warmest Color. It’s an odd choice for Will and Jada, who are definitely raising their kids to be Scientology-adjacent (at the very least) to be so “whatever” with a film that centers around a lesbian romance.

Also, is it crazy to love the safety-pins-in-dreads thing? It looks SO striking.

Photos courtesy of W Magazine.
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