Chloe Sevigny has always been a shade-throwing hipster Mean Girl. And it’s sort of been glorious. I mean, it’s Chloe Sevigny! She’s not trying to get your approval. She’s not trying to make you like her. She throws shade because she doesn’t care for some upstart hussies and that’s that. One of my favorite Chloe-beefs was her constant shade for Gwyneth Paltrow. More than a decade ago, Chloe pointed out that Gwyneth was just trying to be Carolyn Bessette (so true), and Chloe continued the shade parade at the Met Gala a few years ago, when Chloe smirked at Gwyneth’s sleeves.

Anyway, Chloe has a new interview with V Magazine and she has words about Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Angelina Jolie and more. The point of the interview is that Chloe has put together a coffee table book full of her life as Chloe Sevigny. Some highlights:

Why she wanted to reclaim her own aesthetic: “the Internet has all these terrible images, plus Google Image is boundless and never ending….”

She’s not about “good taste”: “Everyone is so obsessed with good taste, and I find that really boring. It wasn’t about every cover and every ad I’ve been in. I was really selective and wanted to set a mood and capture this spirit of not, like, the pretty girl, the sexy girl, but a different quality. I’m not arching my back in every photo.

Criticism, Vincent Gallo & aging: “When Brown Bunny came out, there was a real puritanical press onslaught. They dragged me over the coals. Doing something transgressive like that, it was kind of inevitable, starting off with Kids. I love Vincent [Gallo] as an artist. We’re not friends anymore, which kind of makes me sad. Maybe we will be again one day. Now that I’m getting old, though, it’s hard to see people you haven’t seen in a while because everybody ages so much and I don’t want him to see me older. But yeah, other than that, people love to say that snide, “She’s so indie, cooler-than-cool” stuff. I don’t take offense to any of it.

Marketing & movie stars: “So much is about marketing and selling the product. They’ll have a really peppy funny girl on the talk show rounds, and everybody adores her and loves her and wants to be her or f–k her, and then so many more people want to watch the movie or TV show. I understand that star quality, how much value that carries. I love when a movie star is a great movie star. I think Angelina Jolie is a great movie star. I don’t think I can be that, or just be an actor. I don’t think I have the charisma. Which is probably why I never reached another level. I like Emma Stone. Whenever she’s herself, she’s really cute. Jennifer Lawrence I find annoying. Too crass.”

[From V Magazine]

Jennifer Lawrence is crass? Eh, I can see how a random person would describe J-Law as crass, but coming from an artist/bohemian like Chloe, it seems rather judgy. I mean, Chloe gave Vincent Gallo an on-camera hummer. THAT is crass. But I find myself agreeing with Chloe about the value of star quality and how that translates into financial success. I also agree with her about Angelina Jolie being a “great movie star.” As for Emma Stone… “Whenever she’s herself, she’s really cute.” Meaning that whenever Emma is playing a character, it’s NOT cute? Ha.

For those die-hard Sevigny fans, go and read the full interview – she references Terry Richardson and Larry Clark a few times, and gives an account of wandering into Clark’s art-filled apartment when she was still in high school. It reads like the beginning of an after-school special about what happens when teenage girls get invited to random strangers’ apartments to be “filmed” for an “art project.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.