Anna Sorokin Trial: Stylist Warns Alleged Fake Heiress Is Making Fashion Faux Pas In Court
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Anna doesn't forget to wear diamonds to match the outfit, which is arguably her best one in the entire series. When Val describes why he likes Annain the first episode of the series, he talks about how she knows exactly what to say, how to act, and most importantly, what to wear. As Anna watches models walking down the runway, she looks like she could be presenting her understated dress up there with them. An underrated outfit from that sequence is highlighted for only a few seconds, during her stressful phone call with Talia. The turquoise resort wear – complete with a headscarf – looks like she's about to spend a carefree day just lounging on the yacht's deck, which, as fans may recall, is far from what actually happens next.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether these outfits, which struck a conservative tone, were provided by Walker, who didn’t return a request for comment. After the judge’s stern words, Sorokin burst into tears and had an animated conversation with her attorney, Todd Spodek, who tried to comfort her before the jury entered the room. Of course, she makes sure to wear a classy cape jacket for the occasion.
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After management discovered that there was no credit card on file for Sorokin, they insisted that she settle her $30,000 bill. Sorokin had a case of 1975 Dom Pérignon champagne delivered to the staff in an attempt to keep them on her side; hotel policy prevented the staff from keeping the gift. By March 2017, one month after receiving the $55,000 remaining from her loan application fee, because of her lavish spending, Sorokin had run out of money. She then would offer to take friends out for drinks and dinner but when it was time to pay the bill, she would claim that she had forgotten her credit cards or her credit cards would not work. By this time, Sorokin was very active in the New York social scene; she attended dinner parties where she met Macaulay Culkin and Martin Shkreli. "It is imperative that Anna dress appropriately for the trial. Anna's style was a driving force in her business, and life, and it is a part of who she is," Spodek told GQ.
The hotel called 911 after Sorokin allegedly refused to pay her tab. “She just kept saying we’re making a big deal about it, we need to leave,” Pacheco told the jury. Sorokin insisted that her aunt was on her way and would pay the bill. At trial Wednesday, NYPD officer Bernice Pacheco testified that she arrested Sorokin at the Le Parker Meridien hotel on July 26, 2017, on a theft-of-services rap.
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That stylist is not an image professional or wardrobe consultant, but a celebrity stylist, a woman who helps, say, Courtney Love match her vintage Saint Laurent dress with the right necklace. And just as Sorokin seemed to believe she simply deserved to live gratis in luxury hotels and eat like a queen, she seemed to believe this was the kind of stylist she should have. For her sentencing, Sorokin wore a long-sleeve black dress and flats, Buzzfeed notes. Sorokin hired a professional stylist during her trial, Anastasia Walker, to consult on her courtroom looks.
When she’s downtown, it’s more about head-to-toe black or perhaps a flouncy babydoll dress. For the big Morocco trip, Frecon and Paolo turned to LA resortwear shop Permanent Vacation for colorful muumuus. Fashion is a way to control how the world sees you—and a good grifter can pull off any of these looks with aplomb. Next, Paolo and Frecon reached out to a number of brands—Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors, Valentino, Balenciaga, and Rick Owns among them—in search of exact styles Anna wore. If the brands no longer had the precise pieces in their archives, Paolo and Frecon turned to secondary markets like The RealReal. “On the whole, we had great relationships with the brands because they know we’re advocates for them,” said Paolo .
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Viewers likely couldn't help but gasp along with Neff as Anna doesn't hesitate to jump into the pool in her expensive outfit.
Kari Ferrell, also known as “the hipster grifter,” represents another example of this approach. In the late 2000s, Ferrell preyed upon Williamsburg’s skinny jean-clad hipsters, scamming them out of their money and lying her way into a job at Vice. (Vice Media Group is Refinery29’s parent company.) She got the part because she already looked she belonged. Years after The Observer’s Doree Shafrir wrote about her grift, Ferrell’s distinctive look remained a popular Halloween costume in New York City’s party scene.
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Anna wore lots of black to fit in with the downtown scene she was trying to penetrate, but her choices lacked the connoisseurship of someone who shops at, say, The Row or Comme des Garçons. There’s a difference between the careful construction of a true fashion lover’s wardrobe, and a magpie approach to just wearing a lot of designer crap. Her first of many buzzworthy looks included an all-black ensemble of tights, flats, a choker necklace, and that infamous black dress with the plunging neckline. Notably, Sorokin's pin-straight hairdo looked like she had just stepped out of Drybar.
When the director arranged to verify Sorokin's assets by meeting her bankers in Switzerland, she withdrew the loan application to prevent further scrutiny. In February 2017, the $55,000 portion of the overdraft not spent by Fortress as part of the due diligence process was returned to Sorokin. Sorokin then spent lavishly on luxury clothes, electronics, and a personal trainer as well as $800 hair highlighting and $400 eyelash extensions. The wannabe socialite pretended to be a woman named Anna Delvey with a 60 million euro fortune and told the banks where she tried to score loans that the money was to start an elite Manhattan art club.
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