AskaNewYorker: Hi Victoria. Where’d you get those boots?
Victoria: I got them somewhere on Broadway. I was looking at all the really big fluffy, fashionable boots and didn’t like the really furry ones, so I got some durable leather ones, even though they’re white.
AskaNewYorker: Apres Ski Boots!
Victoria: I consider them very “uber” (laughter).
AskaNewYorker: What other accoutrements are you wearing, this beautiful…
Victoria: …BRA! (more laughter)
AskaNewYorker: Let me guess, Victoria’s Secret?
Victoria: Victoria’s Secret. Everything is embroidered with my initials!
AskaNewYorker: How about the scarf?
Victoria: Canal Street. No, the airport when I was coming back from, no, I don’t know, could’ve been anywhere.
AskaNewYorker: Tell me about this unusual bracelet.
Victoria: This is a Turkish bracelet. It’s an evil-eye bracelet. I used to have three of them. I lost one and two of the eyes in the light-blue one cracked. Apparently, that’s when it absorbed so much evil that it just breaks. Anyway, the evil eye bracelet is supposed to absorb bad energy.
AskaNewYorker: So, what does Victoria do?
Victoria: For work or for fun?
AskaNewYorker: Work.
Victoria: I own a PR firm called World Vanity PR (www.worldvanity.com). I started it at the end of 2003, and I’m building it, it’s growing day by day, which is exciting. We do a lot of sponsorships, celebrity events, and things like that. Right now I’m working on the Oscar baskets for Style Network. Keeping everything fun, basically.
AskaNewYorker: Have you lived elsewhere, outside of New York?
Victoria: Yes. I moved to LA after September 11 and I was there for two years and two months. And I’ve never been happier to move back to a place than I was to get back to New York.
AskaNewYorker: What sports do you play?
Victoria: I’m into mud wrestling, and am a great thumb-wrestler as well. But mostly I’m into golf and I’m a mean darts player. No really, I’m a MEAN darts player. I will hit someone with a dart by accident. Not on purpose.
AskaNewYorker: (more laughter) I admit, I “googled” you and read something about you being caught on fire.
Victoria: Oh, yes. That was the Rain Forest Alliance event and it was a huge fund raiser with all great, fun, jet-setters of New York and I was dressed in a feather outfit like a peacock. And when Patrick McMullen, who is a famous society photographer, came in he said “Hey, Victoria” and I turned around, and because it was a Rain Forest Alliance masquerade-ball-type-of-thing, there were tiki torches all over so when I turned around, my peacock fan of feathers caught on fire. It was just tragic. It was almost tragic. The bartender leapt over the bar and tackled me and stomped out the flames and here I am today an I’m OK!
AskaNewYorker: Tell me about the best parties in the Hamptons.
Victoria: The best parties are actually in Montauk. Surfer parties at Peter Beard’s house. There’s nothing more eclectic than that man and it is always fun out there.
AskaNewYorker: Where in the city do you live?
Victoria: On Perry Street (in Greenwich Village). It’s the best neighborhood ever. It’s the best place for a girl to live, because A) you are really safe and B) you walk out and you’ve got like 10 guys going “Honey, you look fierce”. It’s just awesome.
AskaNewYorker: Where do you play golf?
Victoria: Out in Jersey there’s a place called Rolling Greens. There’s Lido on Long Island, there’s Blue Hill Golf Course which is the first place I ever played with my dad up in Pearl River, New York.
AskaNewYorker: What’s your handicap?
Victoria: 14
AskaNewYorker: Wow! So you play golf! What’d you do last night?
Victoria: Actually, we had a big party down at Churrascaria Plataforma (http://churrascariaplataforma.com/), a Brazilian restaurant here in the city, my friend Claudine’s father’s restaurant. Two hundred fifty people for dinner. It was great. Then we went to the Pink Elephant (8th Ave between 13th and 14th St) and danced till three o’clock in the morning, hence the luggage underneath my eyes.
AskaNewYorker: What kind of music?
Victoria: It’s a mix between everything, sometimes rock, mixed with dance music. Don’t know how to really describe it but it’s always these DJs that know the newest music and newest thing you want to shake your ass to. Basically, good stuff.
AskaNewYorker: Where do you like to hang out in the village?
Victoria: Besides the rooftop garden at BED?
AskaNewYorker: Thanks for sharing, Victoria, and good luck with World Vanity!
