She's still figuring it out.
As “The Sopranos” celebrates its 25th anniversary, the show's Drea de Matteo appears on the mood board of Hollywood's hottest stylists.
“The Aesthetics of Yakuza’s Wife” is fashion's hottest trendswhich attracts young stars from Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift to Kylie and Kendall Jenner.
“My DMs, my crappy text messages,” were exploding, De Matteo said. Mr. De Matteo has recently spent time in Switzerland, where he was unaware of the trend that appeared on the cover of the Post last week. “Every publication was calling and asking for quotes” about the Yakuza's wife's fashion.
She legendaryly played Adriana La Selva, the long-suffering girlfriend of Michael Imperioli's Christopher Moltisanti on the series, and rocked a number of iconic looks in front of the cameras, some of which were She kept it and even considered selling it long before she became a gangster. It had a mall look.
De Matteo, who had just returned from Europe, recalled that Juliette Portia, the costume stylist for “The Sopranos,” “brought us a whole box of costumes on the last day,” and that she used a majestic tiger to film the show. He said it also included a patterned cat suit.
“I'm worth dying for,” she added of the outfit Porsha gave her and the sexy outfit she wore on the 2001 Rolling Stone cover shot by celebrity photographer Mark Seliger. .
She also has her “pretty famous snakeskin pants” and various “uncool lingerie” pieces, as well as a ring she helped create for the show.
Most of her “Sopranos” memorabilia, including the show's scripts, was lost in a 2015 fire at the East Village apartment building where she lived for 22 years.
Fortunately, Adriana's warm clothes were not lost in the fire.
“When I found it, I couldn't believe I had it,” she said. “A lot of my other stuff burned down in the fires in New York City…I found other stuff in my house in the Hamptons. [Adriana’s] Underwear, bras, shoes. ”
“Of course I sold some of her underwear on OnlyFans… people wanted it,” the 52-year-old star candidly said with a laugh.
She joined the racy social media platform last year, in part to make money, after her film and television career took a hit because she refused to get vaccinated during the coronavirus pandemic.
That's when she started thinking about auctioning off her tabby cat suit.
“The bottom line is I lost everything to the pandemic,” she says. “With all due respect to her colleagues and agents, everyone dumped me without calling. I realized what kind of playground I was playing in.”
“I wanted to do something for myself and my children,” she says of the potential sale. She said, “People were saying, 'You have to say it's for charity.' Would you do that?
In the first year of the hit HBO show, before his pay increase, he reportedly only made $500 per episode, saying, “I just didn't spend enough time on the show to actually make any money.” ing.
Although she is still an incompetent figure in the industry, she says that due to the vaccine controversy, her financial position has become less precarious thanks to the fabulous star's OnlyFans account. “I’m proud of her for standing up for her beliefs,” she says.
The cat suit and other threads are still in her closet for now.
She's launching a hip new streetwear line called ULTRAFREE next month.
“It's about making freedom cool again,” Starr says of the clothing line he developed with partner Robbie Stabler, drummer for the band All Them Witches.
The line is inspired by '80s style and includes “sweatshirts, sweatpants and big logos,” she says.
Off screen, her style isn't exactly mob style.
“I dress like a tomboy,” she says. “All the costumes on The Sopranos were Juliet and she loved dressing me up. I was her doll…the sluttier the better,” she says of Adriana's racy look. I joked.
