When She Was "It" – The 90s

You could find the "It" girls... dancing at the Roxy and the Tunnel, sliding down the slide at Club USA, trying to get into Bungalow 8 and Spy Bar and Moomba to see Lea and Puffy, complaining about the cabaret laws, brunching al Coffee Shop, hanging out in the Hamptons at Conscience Paint Inn, getting their frozen yogurt from Tasti D-Lite, working out at David Barton, reading the New York Observer and paging through Manhattan File, hanging out with the skaters in Washington Square Park and at Max Fish, buying their baby tees at Liquid Sky, using their parents' credit cards at Scoop and Calypso St. Barth.

“The ‘It’-girl thing was confusing for Hollywood to wrap their heads around because I think they associated it with turnover, not with a working actress.”

Chloë Sevigny

“Certainly anyone who has heard Chloë’s laugh—which alternately suggests a mallard surprised into flight and a drowning victim gasping for air—would be hard-pressed to call her jaded. But it’s probably her spacey air of mystery and reserve as well as the street chic that keep causing people to ask, ‘Who is that girl?’”

—Jay McInerney, “Chloë’s Scene,” The New Yorker, 1994

"After I graduated from high school, I moved to Brooklyn Heights and had five roommates, all working at the Peter Gatien clubs: Limelight, the Tunnel. I spent a year working at Liquid Sky and Madison Square Garden, standing in line for ticket scalpers and going out, dancing, making out. That was my big year of going out. I do know for my mom it was very terrifying, but I checked in a lot, and my dad would always remind her that there was more good in the world than bad. They were pretty worried about drugs, but I just never liked doing them. I’ve never even done cocaine. I partook in other things: acid, ecstasy, candyflipping.