Tom Ford for UGA tailgates, cheerleading championship rings, heirloom jewelry, American Doll fashion, and Brandon Maxwell gowns. Monica Padman hosts us in her home for this installment of Who What Wardrobes.
Director: Stephanie Romero
Cinematography: Amusement Productions
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Sound Mixer: Jason Flaster
Associate Video Producer: Kellie Scott
VP, Creative: Alexa Wiley
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
Director: Stephanie Romero
Cinematography: Amusement Productions
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Sound Mixer: Jason Flaster
Associate Video Producer: Kellie Scott
VP, Creative: Alexa Wiley
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
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00:00I guess I should have said wrinkled as one of the three words that describe my style.
00:05Hi, who, what, where?
00:06I'm Monica Padman, and today we're going to go through some of my favorite pieces in my
00:11wardrobe.
00:12I think I would describe my style as classic, eclectic, and pretty.
00:23So these are some of my favorite pieces.
00:28This one is a Norma Kamali dress.
00:34Nicole Chavez styled me in this for Jimmy Kimmel.
00:41I did it with Dax, and it was the scariest day of my life.
00:47I was so, so nervous, but I felt so good in this dress.
00:51So this blazer was a hand-me-down.
00:56We call it a bell-me-down.
00:58Kristin gave it to me, but before she had given it to me, I was getting it dry-clean
01:04for her, and it was in the backseat of my car.
01:07This was when I was assisting her.
01:08It was hanging, and my windows were rolled down, which I did not realize, and the jacket
01:19flew out of the car, and I heard something.
01:25I looked back, and I just saw the sleeve kind of tattering away, and I had to pull over and
01:31run into traffic to get the jacket that was in the middle of the street.
01:36I didn't know if it was fancy, and it was hers, and I had just started working for her, and
01:42I was like, I'm gonna get fired because this jacket's gonna get run over.
01:46It's a very special piece to me because I saved it, and yeah, she gave it to me.
01:51It wasn't that special, turns out.
01:53Okay, so this is a very basic sweatshirt, but I wear it all the time.
02:01I love the color.
02:03It's a very specific kind of mauve, and it's really worn in because I've had it forever.
02:09It's Elizabeth and James, which was Mary-Kate and Ashley's brand before The Row, so it feels
02:19very limited because this brand doesn't exist anymore, and it's some of the best fitting.
02:24I also have a t-shirt that's Elizabeth and James, and it's the best fitting t-shirt I have,
02:31so I'm pretty sad that they don't make these clothes anymore, but I have moved on to The
02:37Row, which is at a little bit higher of a price point, but that's okay.
02:43These are The Row pants, and I wear them all the time.
02:47I mean, I think I wore them two days ago, which is why they are a little stained and have wrinkles
02:54all over them.
02:55I didn't prepare well for this, obviously, so I'm a little bit of a mess, but I wear these
03:00all the time.
03:02They were an investment, but I've really got my money's worth because they go with
03:07everything.
03:08And I love them.
03:09They're so soft.
03:10These are red velvet Tom Ford pants.
03:17I got them last year to wear to a University of Georgia football game.
03:23I went to the University of Georgia, and it's a huge football school.
03:28The games are so fun, and in the South, you get dressed up for football games.
03:35So you wear full-on dresses, full face of makeup, heels to your tailgate, and then to the game.
03:44And I got to go back to a football game this year, and I was like, you know, what am I going
03:50to wear?
03:51It has to be fancy, but it also has to be elevated.
03:54It's a new me.
03:56And so I got these pants, and I love them, and they really worked.
04:01This dress I got at the Paris flea market.
04:07I was done shopping.
04:09I had got some furniture and some other little pieces, a little bowl, and I was done.
04:17I needed to be done.
04:18And I was walking to my Uber, and I saw this in the window, and I thought, if this fits me,
04:26I have to have it.
04:29And it fit me.
04:31So I bought it, and I love it, and it feels so romantic to me.
04:38It feels very classic, and I feel like she wore this.
04:45I feel like she actually wore it.
04:47I channel her when I'm in this.
04:50This sweatshirt is maybe one I get the most compliments on whenever I wear it.
04:56It draws the eye.
04:59It's from John and Vinny's, which is a restaurant in Los Angeles.
05:06Very delicious.
05:07It's so good.
05:08And during the pandemic, they had a little store where you could, like, buy, you know,
05:15fruits.
05:16You could buy your groceries, basically.
05:17And then they had some other little things, and they had this sweatshirt.
05:21And I was, like most people, pretty lost during the pandemic in buying any sweatshirt or sweat
05:28pant that came across my screen, and this was one of them, and so I bought it.
05:32And it's with Project 43.
05:36I wish I could tell you that I knew what that meant and what it is.
05:41I do believe it to be philanthropic.
05:44And, yeah, so I love wearing it, and I love this little guy, this little bear on front.
05:52Okay, so this is a sweater, also wrinkled.
05:58I guess I should have said wrinkled as one of the three words that describe my style.
06:03This is very special.
06:05Kristen brought this back for me from, I want to say Italy or Paris.
06:13And it says facts on it because I'm the fact checker for my job.
06:18And also, I believe in justice and facts.
06:24This is a Brandon Maxwell gorgeous dress, gown, we could say, that I found because, ding, ding,
06:37Hillary Kerr was wearing this on Instagram, and I thought, I must have that immediately.
06:45And so I bought it.
06:46It's beautiful.
06:47I have not, it still has the tag on.
06:48I haven't worn it yet.
06:49I'm saving it for a gala that I have not been invited to.
06:54So putting it out there that if anyone invites me to a gala, I will be wearing this dress.
06:59And I can't wait.
07:01This dress, I love.
07:05It's vintage.
07:06It's Fendi.
07:07I got it at this little Austin vintage store that I sort of just came across.
07:14It's super easy.
07:17I love a dress that you can just slip on, but it has like a vibe to it.
07:22I love the collar.
07:25And I normally pair this with a tennis shoe so that I could kind of high and low it.
07:30But I love this.
07:32She's, she's so pretty and she's so easy.
07:35Okay, so these pants are also from the vintage store in Austin.
07:41I love a pleat.
07:43I just, I just am a real sucker for it.
07:47This sweater is from Alexandra Golovanov.
07:51She has a store in Paris and just makes the most beautiful cashmere sweaters.
07:56I was there last year and I got this one.
07:58I love the covered buttons on it.
08:01It's cropped, but she has so many different styles, but they're all very classic and I
08:05feel like last few forever.
08:08And then I got some little Gucci loafers.
08:12Cannot go wrong with a Gucci loafer.
08:14I love the white.
08:15I also have a white Gucci Jackie bag that I feel like pairs really well with it.
08:22Okay.
08:23So these are Jordans and Dax got really into Jordans or he's always been into Jordans, I guess,
08:33but he got into like gifting everyone a bunch of Jordans, which was, which is very generous.
08:39Um, and these are my first pair that he got me.
08:42It's, I forget the print.
08:44It's called like animal something.
08:47And they're so cool.
08:49As soon as they arrived, I was like, oh, I get it.
08:52I get the need to like collect a sneaker.
08:55Um, so I have a few other pairs of Jordans too that I've since got, but these are my first
08:59ones.
09:00So they're special to me.
09:01Um, this is my everyday bag.
09:07This green, I feel like is really rare.
09:11I, I don't, I haven't seen it since, since I bought it.
09:15Um, and I love it because it's, it's so classic, but the green kind of gives it something a little
09:22bit different.
09:23I keep everything in here and my laptop is currently in here.
09:26I keep the cord.
09:27I travel with this.
09:29It's such a luxe bag, but it really delivers like it is durable.
09:34It comes everywhere with me and um, she's really pretty.
09:40These have never been worn in my adult life, but they probably are, they're probably the
09:47two most important pieces in my entire home.
09:50Um, they are my state rings from high school.
09:55I was a cheerleader, a competition cheerleader in high school and we won state my junior and
10:00senior year and they give you rings for that.
10:04Um, and they say my name, they say school.
10:07It was such a big deal at the time.
10:10And still, it was sort of the first moment that I learned that hard work really does pay
10:15off.
10:16So these are really, really important reminders to me.
10:20Now this is all tangled.
10:22I tried before we recorded this video, I solicited a lot of people in this room.
10:29There's more than just me in this room.
10:31Um, and to, to try to untangle it and nobody could do it, but this is a, uh, necklace that
10:41I love.
10:42Um, I stole this pendant from my American Girl doll, Samantha.
10:49She was wearing it on a teeny tiny chain.
10:53And I thought that is such a cute necklace that this doll is wearing.
10:57So I ripped it off and I put it on a real adult chain.
11:02And um, I used to wear it all the time.
11:04I haven't, I haven't seen it in a bit, probably cause it got all tangled and I gave up on it.
11:08But um, yeah, this is Samantha's necklace.
11:14This is a Chanel camellia ring.
11:20I got this because I would see really beautiful jewelry and I would think, Oh, like maybe one
11:31day someone will buy that for me.
11:33Like maybe one day for Valentine's day or for an anniversary or, you know, a man will buy
11:39this for me.
11:41And um, I was in Paris and I was walking by and I saw it and I was in love with it.
11:46And I thought, why am I waiting for that?
11:49There is absolutely no reason for me to wait for somebody else to buy me this when I can
11:55buy myself this ring.
11:57And so I did and I love it.
12:00It's so pretty, um, and uh, it kind of reminds me like you're good on your own.
12:08Not that there's nothing wrong with having a partner, but you can do things by yourself
12:13if you want.
12:14Okay.
12:15So this necklace is, um, it's a peridot stone.
12:21That is my birthstone.
12:22Um, and my grandmother got me this when I was five.
12:27My grandmother has an amazing jewelry collection.
12:31She's from India and has all this gold jewelry and, um, and so jewelry kind of means a lot
12:38to her.
12:39And so when I was five, she got me this, which I did not appreciate until maybe like five
12:46or six years ago, I saw this just like sitting in my jewelry box.
12:51And, um, I thought that is a gorgeous necklace.
12:54Why am I not wearing it?
12:56And so I do now and it reminds me of her and, um, I love it.
13:02Those are some of my favorite pieces in my closet.
13:05Thanks for tuning in.