AE: What’s with the “I am Linda Evangelista” T-shirt?
JS: There’s a wonderful story about why the T-shirt was made. One of my first jobs in New York was for a beauty ad where they were going to take portraits of our faces and when I entered the photo studio, number one, I saw five tents. One tent around each make up mirror. I was late, of course, and I looked inside the first tent and saw Christy Turlington, and in the next tent I saw Naomi Campbell, and I’m freaking out because never in my life had I ever thought I would even meet these people, let alone work with them and I’m breathing the same oxygen in the same space as these people.
Then the next tent was Kristen McMenamy and I saw an empty tent and I ran into it. I couldn’t look anymore — I was having a panic attack. I was telling myself how much I hated myself and that I didn’t belong there and I sat down in a chair, waiting for the make up artist to come. I’m sitting there and I can hear this whisper, “I am Linda. I am Linda Evangelista,” and it kept going, over and over again, and we were separated by two pieces of white fabric. I pushed the white fabric open and I see Linda Evangelista staring at herself in the mirror and she’s still saying, “I am Linda Evangelista,” and it’s just getting louder and louder, so I sat down back in my seat, getting myself back together and I said to myself, “I am Linda Evangelista.”
Basically, that line of strength got me through that day because I was flipped out and the story goes, every time I get very nervous or very scared or think that I can’t handle it, I always say, “I am Linda Evangelista.”
I like his new haircut. Linda and her "Mini Me". 
