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"The Apartments of Karlie Kloss, Karen Elson, Tyra Banks, and Other Supermodels\nStephanie Seymour, Tyra Banks, Lindsay Ellingson, Erin Heatherton, Karen Elson, Patti Hansen, Karlie Kloss, and other supermodels on their interiors\nOn the morning of Fashion\u00A0Week's great blizzard, Stephanie Seymour, seen here with Jason Wu, had managed to take her seat in the front row of the designer's fashion show.\u00A0\"My first apartment was a big loft, actually. Keith Richards lived upstairs. And that's why I took the apartment.\u00A0I had no furniture.\u00A0I had a mattress on the floor.\u00A0And, um, we drew all over the walls\u2014I had a bunch of friends who were artists. My landlady wasn't happy about it. We had a little table, a couple of chairs. And then just clothes everywhere.\"\n\nAnd her taste for interior design today? \"I love to mix in modern art.\u00A0I love William Morris wallpaper.\u00A0My loft is more modern, more French '50s. And then my house in Connecticut is a big mix of everything from a Jean-Michel Frank room to a big library, which is all English turn of the century. So I guess I like a little bit of everything.\"\nWhile hosting the Resolution Project's Resolve 2012 gala at the Harvard Club, model Chrissy Teigen, seen here with her fianc\u00E9, John Legend, recalled her first model apartment. \"Two bedrooms with six women in them,\" she said. \"I decided to take the couch, because I didn't want to share a room with somebody. I had the pullout bed and the TV.\"\n\nAnd today? \"I love darkness. We have an apartment down in SoHo: dark, woody, earthy, with big comfy couches, and a very comfortable open kitchen looking into the living room. It's amazing!\n\nClick here to see John Legend and Chrissy Teigen's chic L.A. home.\nBackstage at Victoria's Secret, Karlie Kloss owned up to the white-box model apartment when she was starting out. \"It was white walls, super-boring,\" she said. And now Kloss plans to start over with her recently purchased two-bedroom in Manhattan, beginning with a 20-foot stretch of closets. \"I want to do something really warm and very, very chic, almost like a Parisian apartment,\" she told AD.\n\n Kloss is seen here backstage at Calvin Klein.\n\n**\nAt the Cinema Society screening of Seven Psychopaths, Helena Christensen, one of the world's great beauties, said that she began her modeling life sans roommates.\u00A0\"Models tended to stay together, with three girls in one place, but I actually had a tiny apartment for myself from the beginning. It was literally so small you couldn't turn.\"\n\nAnd her domestic style today?\u00A0\"I always traveled\u2014since I was very, very young,\" she said. \"And I'm always collecting. I'm a bit of a finder. So my place looks like it is lived in by some tinker person, with lots of objects from all over the world.\"\nOn Fashion's Night Out at the Calvin Klein store on Madison, Karen Elson described her first flat in Manhattan. \"I lived on the third floor of a slumlord apartment with [model] Erin O'Connor. It was a dire place with one of the worst landlords in New York. We weren't very good at interiors then, it was very studentlike. I went through a bohemian phase, hanging fabrics on the wall.\"\n\nAnd now? \"I live in a really beautiful modern house in Nashville, on top of a hill with beautiful views. It's still a little bohemian but Art Deco, much more together, more grown up. I'm working with a designer now, Landy Gardner in Nashville.\"\n\nElson is seen here at the CFDA Fashion Awards after party.\nAt the 80th Anniversary of Chanel's \"Bijoux De Diamants\" jewelry collection, the Inquisitive Guest ran into Erin O'Connor. I asked for her report on the apartment she shared with Karen Elson. \"It was organized chaos, very indicative of our life at the time. We had to be willing nomads. Actually, being home in New York was exotic in and of itself. And it was suitably untidy as you can imagine.\n\n\"And now,\" she continued, \"I just moved back to New York. It's like a womb. \"Since I'm a '70s child, I grew up in torturous beige and brown, and now it's scandalously colorful . . . unapologetic!\"\nPatti Hansen, who just spent months with her husband, Keith Richards, at their idyllic getaway on Parrot Cay, in Turks and Caicos, said that she didn't know anything about interior design when she started out modeling. \"I had designers come in and change my house, and it was very blond when I started,\" she told AD at the God's Love We Deliver Golden Heart Gala at the sumptuously ornate Cunard Building on lower Broadway.\n\nToday, in Connecticut, Hansen works with a friend named Carol Perry. \"It's red, green, gold . . . filled with color, purples,\" she said. \"It's sort of eclectic bohemian, very comfortable.\"\nDuring the Cinema Society premiere of 2 Days in New York, Tyra Banks recalled being squeezed into\u00A0her first model apartment in New York City,\u00A0\"with eight to twelve girls,\" she said. \"I was just cheap. By the time I got to New York, I could have afforded an apartment or hotel, but I thought it was ridiculously priced, so I stayed at a model apartment. Now, I work with a designer,\" Banks added. \"But I am super-duper hands-on, beyond hands-on, palm prints, fingerprints, insanely hands-on. Secretly, I'm an interior designer.\"\nFollowing the New York debut of the film Side Effects, we ran into model turned actress Michele Hicks, who apparently had style from Day One. \"My first New York apartment was very Goth. It was all velvet curtains,\" she said. \"And dark, heavy furniture. And now my house in Los Angeles is Spanish style; it has a few key dark-wood pieces, but I've lightened it up quite a bit with white carpets.\"\n\n Hicks is seen here at an event for the Elton John AIDS Foundation\nBackstage at the Marc Jacobs show, famed Polish model Magdalena Frackowiak had on a dark shag wig. \"I started out sharing one room,\" she said. \"And I have two apartments now, one in Warsaw that I bought in an old building, and I did that one more traditional; the one in New York is very modern, with contemporary furniture. The style of my furniture?\u00A0Look at environmentfurniture.com.\" The Inquisitive Guest did: simple, beautiful, rough-hewn.\u00A0Thumbs-up.\n\nFrackowiack is seen here walking the Marc Jacobs runway.\nAt the Players Club in East Hampton, New York, the Inquisitive Guest buttonholed Veronica Webb. \"I definitely started with an empty box,\" she said. \"I shared it with a girl named Marpessa Hennink [the original Dolce &amp;amp; Gabbana muse]. And for years and years, I lived with Azzedine [Ala\u00EFa] and Christophe\u00A0[von Wyehe, his partner]. I slept between the racks of clothes. Our apartment was very romantic and minimal. And today it is both modern and minimal. So all the materials are super, super-lush\u2014thick wool carpets that stand up to the kids. And beautiful suede couches. I worked with a decorator named Matthew Yee; he's a friend, and we didn't push his aesthetic.\"\n\n Webb is seen here at an event for Good Shepherd Services.\nAt the God's Love We Deliver gala, Erin Heatherton described her humble starter apartment.\u00A0\"A closet with a bed inside,\" she said. \"And then a model apartment, and then somewhere else tiny. But I just bought an apartment, and I'm remodeling it. I'm in the process of picking the cabinets and all that stuff with Nate Berkus. He's fabulous.\"\n\nHeatherton is seen here at GQ's Men Of The Year party.\nSports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Ariel Meredith does not long wistfully for her first digs. \"It was a model's apartment, starting out,\" she said. \"Tons of models stealing your stuff.\u00A0Having to keep a lock on your door. It was horrible. And today the look is simple . . . chic. Modern, with river views in New York.\"\nAt the Calvin Klein store on Madison, Angela Lindvall remarked, \"I'm not a big shopper, but when it comes to interiors, I have a weakness. It was kind of like the bare minimum, and then you get that first couch, because you're traveling all the time. But the beautiful thing is\u00A0that 15 years and two kids later, I have a wonderful eclectic mix of interior design from around the world. I love antiques and mixing different cultures together. I fall in love with a\u00A0chair, and then I say, \u2018Now I've got to make the rest of the room work with the chair.'\"\n\nLindvall is seen here at an Art Of Elysium gala.\nAt the Golden Heart Gala, Cody Horn, a former model who landed a role in the movie Magic Mike, said she'd never lived in a model apartment, except in Paris. \"But I've heard horror stories. In Australia, I had to share a bed with a girl for like six weeks. That was a little intense.\"\n\nAnd how does her interior look today? \"It hasn't really changed\u2014California girl moves to New York. Woods mixed in with metals. Natural materials.\"\nAt the premiere of Playing for Keeps, supermodel Anja Rubik smiled while recalling her first apartment in Paris. \"Eighteen square meters, 190 square feet. Pretty small. I kept a suitcase in the kitchen. My bathroom was so small you couldn't really dry yourself. But I still went to the flea market back then. And now, it is a spacious, beautiful space in Greenwich Village. I did the interior myself. I have a lot of Poliform, B&amp;amp;B Italia. It's a very modern, Italian feel\u2014all very white, with muted colors, black floors, a lot of art. I have the work of [contemporary Mexican artist] Alejandra Mendoza. Quite modern art and a lot of photography.\"\nAD caught up with Trish Goff, the model turned real estate agent, in the front row at the Anna Sui show. \"When I started modeling, all I really wanted to get was a Shabby Chic couch,\" she recalled. \"It was very comfortable, but I ended up giving it to my mother.\u00A0And I went very quickly to midcentury modern. I now mix midcentury modern with antiques. And I like classic wallpaper and dark colors. I love a dark, dark green on a wall with tons of mirrors on it.\"\n\nGoff is seen here at an event for Hugo Boss at the Guggenheim Museum.\nThe look of Mirte Maas's residence?\u00A0\"Messy,\" she answered. \"There is wood furniture . . . and yes, I have food.\"\nThe Inquisitive Guest encountered Kim Alexis, a top '80s model, who now lives in Florida, on the red carpet at the HBO film premiere of About Face. \"If you're smart, you figure out how to hold on to some of that money and stop walking around with a suitcase,\" she said, while holding the arm of her pal designer Calvin Klein. \"I think my style is more relaxed now, very beachy and comfortable,\" she said.\nAt Lavo after the Victoria's Secret show, California-born Lindsay Ellingson claimed that when she began modeling, \"I had a really huge loft in SoHo with Target and \u2018shabby chic' furniture. And now I have a brand-new duplex in West Chelsea, and I'm just now redecorating, with real Shabby Chic furniture and mirrored furniture. It's a work in progress,\" she insisted. \"But it's going to be great. . . .\"\n\nEllingson is seen here at a Victoria's Secret Pink Carpet party.\nBackstage at Marc Jacobs was Ruby Jean Wilson, the face of Jacobs's Juergen Teller campaign, who told AD, \"First I started out in a tiny apartment with my boyfriend. And now I live in a modest but beautiful apartment on the Lower East Side. It's different, vintage, classic . . . comfortable . . . not too much color.\"\n\nWilson is seen here at a Peter Som fashion show.\nSI Swimsuit Issue model Jessica Gomes, wrapped in a clingy sleeveless dress, laughed when we asked about her first apartment in New York. \"That's a good one,\" she said. \"I was in a shoebox when I moved to the city, and now I have a house in L.A. My style is actually very Asian. I have a veggie garden out\u00A0in\u00A0the back. I've got a pool with a waterfall and a Balinese swinging seat.\" Evelyn Nesbit, eat your heart out.\nBackstage at Victoria's Secret, model Jessica Hart, wearing only a rouge silk robe, said that she loves furniture. \"I like to find amazing modern pieces in my budget,\" she said. \"I have a Frank Lloyd Wright couch. That was my splurge. . . . It's gorgeous but not comfortable.\"\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\n\nHart is seen here at the Tribeca Film Festival.\nAt New York's Paley Center for Media for the debut of the HBO documentary About Face, Beverly Johnson\u2014an enormously successful model in an age when real estate prices in Manhattan had yet to soar\u2014explained that she had enjoyed the most amazing apartments. \"I had a place on\u00A0Fifth\u00A0Avenue, 1215 Fifth\u00A0Avenue\u00A0at 102nd street\u2014ten rooms.\u00A0That one was very much Halston, Calvin Klein with all the gray sofas,\" she said. \"I was always surrounded by people who were interior designers. And on 89th\u00A0street, I was on Madison, but overlooking\u00A0Fifth\u00A0Avenue and the park. All chrome furniture, chrome and steel\u2014this\u00A0was the \u201870s!\"\n\"Oh, I love my places,\" Edita Vilkeviciute, a breathtaking beauty from Lithuania, told AD at the Calvin Klein store on Madison Avenue while she was supposed to be doing a photo shoot with other models in a cage. \"We have a lot of things I brought from different places around the world. A lot of antiques mixed with current pieces. \"\n\nVilkeviciute is seen here at a Victoria's Secret collection party."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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