Her bedroom at home is light pink. Over her desk is a painting of a pink cassette tape that she bought in a market for about $ 20. Her boyfriend hates it, she said. She has been going out for almost two years with Arthur Donald, the grandson of Paul McCartney. They met when she and Mrs. Kianni did a collaboration with Stella McCartney, his aunt. He lives in California and tries to come to New York for the weekend. When he visits, she said, he removes the painting from the wall. They are looking for something to replace it.
She is very online: she has nearly 500,000 Instagram followers, to whom she places photos of her activism and Black-Tie Awards Nights with Mr. Donald, Like The Albie Awards From the Clooney Foundation for Justice and around 242,000 Tiktok followers. One of her most popular taps was one Bubble Tea Showdown with her father. They have a constant argument about texting. He likes e -mail; She doesn’t. (Now he texts her when he sent her an e -mail.)
However, they share a hunger for what he calls ‘risk’.
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The idea for Phia, a Portmanteau from Phoebe and Sophia, began with Mrs. Gates (who once thought she could go into the health of women, the focus of her philanthropy) and Mrs. Kianni (who wanted to become an environmental lawyer) who tried to come up with a pitch to get an entrepreneurship to get an entrepreneurship.
First they thought of a Bluetooth-Smart-Tampon who would know what was going on with your hormones, iron level and so on. They considered making ‘the gene z version of LinkedIn’. Then they thought about where so many women who started their own fashion bullets had thought: their own experience.
Mrs. Gates remembered that she saw an area dress she had bought for $ 500 resale for $ 150 on the RealReal and the feeling, she said, “so foolish.” Mrs. Kianni, who is Iranian American, grew up in Washington, DC and started a climate change organization, climate cardinals, when she was in high school (it translates climate sources into 100 languages); She was already a dedicated resale shopper.
They thought there had to be others like they – you know, Mrs. Gates said: “Smart girls, 25 to 30 years, who want to shop like a genius and get the best price in one click.” They were so enthusiastic about the idea that they wanted to stop and got started right away, but their mothers came in.
