{"id":106810,"date":"2020-11-07T00:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-jenna-lyons-got-her-groove-back\/"},"modified":"2020-11-07T00:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:25:31","slug":"how-jenna-lyons-got-her-groove-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-jenna-lyons-got-her-groove-back\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Jenna Lyons got her groove back"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How Jenna Lyons got her groove back<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n After creative director Jenna Lyons left a floundering J.Crew in 2017 \u2014 reportedly a mutual decision between her and the company she helped grow from a catalog of laid-back preppy basics into a bona fide fashion behemoth \u2014 she needed a break.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really strange time,\u201d Lyons, 51, told The Post of her exit. \u201cI had to decompress. You don\u2019t realize how intense and how hard you have been driving until you stop. I was mentally and physically exhausted.\u201d Free of that previously unrelenting gig (she oversaw J.Crew, its factory brand and Madewell), she planned to brush up on her French, learn how to dance and maybe whip her body into killer shape.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did none of those things. I was struggling. I think I was probably depressed. I had a real internal crisis. I didn\u2019t realize how much of my identity was connected to the brand,\u201d said Lyons, who recalled being stopped in a London airport by a woman asking if she was \u201cJenna Crew.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jenna Lyons<\/span>Tamara Beckwith<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018No\u2026 well, sort of.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, Lyons\u2019 entire adult life was tied to J.Crew, where she worked for 26 years. Raised in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Lyons attended Parsons School of Design and joined the company in 1990 as a design assistant in menswear. In 2008, then-CEO Millard \u201cMickey\u201d Drexler elevated her to creative director, urging her to use her own personal style sensibility as a blueprint. With her lanky 6-foot frame, bold black nerdy glasses, eye-popping orange-red lipstick and habit of wearing sequins in the daylight, she became J.Crew\u2019s avatar and a cult figure among both fashionistas and suburban women mesmerized by her accessible but highly curated look.<\/p>\n

Her aesthetic was also distilled through her popular email lifestyle news<\/a>letter \u201cJenna\u2019s Picks\u201d (which initially confused her mother, whom, Lyons was informed by corporate, thought the emails were meant for her specifically and would respond with personal messages. \u201cOne of them was literally instructions on where to find her will,\u201d she said with a laugh.)<\/p>\n

Under Lyons, Michelle Obama, the first daughters and Beyonc\u00e9 wore J.Crew. Lyons shook up the stodgy red-carpet scene rocking ensembles such as a denim jacket and magenta satin skirt to the Met Gala. Her personal life also became fodder for the gossip mill. In 2011, she divorced her artist-husband<\/a> Vincent Mazeau, and the next year, Page Six reported that she was dating a woman, Courtney Crangi<\/a>. Although she maintained her cool publicly, she said the revelation caused a panic behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

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Sasha, Malia and Michelle Obama in 2013.<\/span>AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI had told no one in my life,\u201d she said of her then-burgeoning relationship. \u201cIf you were in my close intimate circle, my mother \u2014 who did not know \u2014 or in the office, yeah, it might have been a little scandalous. I wasn\u2019t even totally sure what I was doing. It was totally in the beginning stages, and I was dipping my toe in the water. I am super lucky because everyone around me was completely supportive. It was a challenging time, and I could not have gotten through it without the incredible support I got from the company, Mickey in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, though, her persona began to outshine the brand. After leaving her post, she suddenly wasn\u2019t in our inboxes, wowing us with her red-carpet rebellion or even on Page Six. (She and Crangi split in 2017.) She retreated to the couch in her Soho apartment, waiting for the phone to ring with another opportunity in fashion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat just didn\u2019t happ<\/a>en,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I started to get a little scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

She took any lunch invitation that came her way, and eventually opened herself up to non-fashion ventures.<\/p>\n

She was approached about doing a line of furniture, and it led to working on a boutique hotel in the Bahamas where she is overseeing everything from retail, design and staff uniforms. There was talk about a television show, which turned into a documentary competition series<\/a> \u201cStylish With Jenna Lyons,\u201d <\/a>\u00a0premiering on HBO Max in December. And a beauty idea morphed into LoveSeen<\/a>, a line of faux eyelashes launched in September.<\/p>\n

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Jenna Lyons<\/span>Tamara Beckwith<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI opened the door to things I never would have even considered before. I would\u2019ve said, \u2018I\u2019m too busy, I don\u2019t have the time, I\u2019m scared.\u2019 Every answer you could have imagined. I felt like I didn\u2019t have those answers anymore, because I didn\u2019t have a job. There was no safety net,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

LoveSeen \u2014 a collaboration with her makeup artist friend Troi Ollieverre \u2014 is personal. Lyons suffers from a genetic disorder, incontinentia pigmenti, which affects the skin, teeth and hair. Without brows of her own (she\u2019s had microblading, a common, refined tattooing procedure) and only a few sparse eyelashes, she became interested in the false variety through both Instagram beauty tutorials that featured voluminous, Kardashian-esque tarantula-looking lashes and her fellow J.Crew employees who used extensions in a more understated way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no variation. It was full glam or natural extensions but nothing to marry the two.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jenna Lyons<\/span>Dimitrios Kambouris<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A set of LoveSeen lashes start at $20, and next month, the company is releasing a patented tool, which is a tweezer and eyelash-curler hybrid that aims to make the application simpler. \u201cThe response has been amazing, and it\u2019s particularly phenomenal considering we launched a business during COVID,\u201d Lyons said, adding, \u201cThank God it wasn\u2019t lipstick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many other mask-wearers, she, too, has let go of bright lip colors \u2014 and pared down her look entirely. \u201cI don\u2019t need that anymore,\u201d said Lyons, who is currently single.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s even swapped her thick framed glasses for more subtle pairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized a couple of times my glasses broke, and I had to wear an old pair that were delicate, and I walked into a restaurant, and someone said, \u2018I hardly recognized you,\u2019\u2009\u201d she said. \u201cI was like, \u2018Cool.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s motherhood. When her son, Beckett, was 2, the pair appeared in a photo on the J.Crew site with Lyons painting his toenails pink, and it caused a stir among some social<\/a> conservatives, who said it unnecessarily blurred gender lines. Now 14 with a large mop of blond hair, whiz kid Beckett is the de facto \u201chead of technology<\/a>\u201d at Lyons\u2019 enterprise, helping her stay connected, so she can work remotely on all her creative projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can see he is really liking that and feeling the energy,\u201d she said. \u201cI think what he really wants is for me to be a full person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although she\u2019s still enamored with creating beautiful clothing, Lyons is glad to find her footing outside the finicky fashion bubble. \u201cI miss feeling connected to it and knowing what was going on\u2009.\u2009.\u2009. People are really supportive and nice when you are inside of it,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I am not in there anymore.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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