Not to say that I need this particular snail slushie,
but I do need something.
It's like a binky, is honestly what it is.
Hi GQ.
I'm Hunter Schafer and these are my essentials.
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This is my Polaroid.
It's pretty amazing 'cause it's got auto focus,
which is not a thing with a lot of Polaroids.
I love having this, particularly when I'm on set
with a bunch of beautiful actors and beautiful sets
and locations.
I kind of just feel like a duty to capture everything
and they're really fabulous pieces of history
that I get to like take home with me.
I have so many good ones from Euphoria
and from Cuckoo.
There's a really beautiful body of photographs
that I think I'm gonna put out in the world somehow.
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These are my jeans.
I have a lot of jeans,
but this is basically the only pair that I wear.
I got them a few years ago.
They're Margiela.
In general, like with a pant,
I love like a relaxed fit and the color's kind of perfect.
I mean obviously blue jeans go with just about everything.
They're not totally boring either.
They've got like this fun little detail
with muslin peeking out of the pocket.
It's comfortable.
I sleep in them a lot of the time.
I first got interested in fashion like when I was a kid
and I was drawing a bunch of comics
and I realized like what I liked about making characters
was drawing their outfits.
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Next we have Shiseido eye patches.
I wasn't really an eye patch girly
until maybe like last year.
I fly so much.
That obviously dries out your skin on the airplane
and it's like a lot for your skin to go through.
These are like a nice way to get some
moisture back in your face
and feel kind of like fabulous
when you're cooped up on the plane.
You have like a bunch of goo,
which I think just really kind of helps
with like the hydrating moment.
You can like, you know, put it wherever.
I mean they're really cute.
They look like little sea creatures or something.
I'm not gonna put it on my face
'cause I have makeup right now
and I'm still in the middle of a photo shoot.
But like, it's super gooey and kind of cold and sweet.
They're really yummy and they smell good.
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I've like drawn and painted ever since I was a kid.
I mean I thought I was gonna like do art with my life
and it's still something that I want to keep up.
Shiseido sent these watercolors to me as a gift.
They are just gorgeous pigments.
I'm gonna show a few little pigments
just to like show how gorgeous they are
wet and on the paper.
This one is one of my favorites 'cause it's like so kooky
and kind of acidic.
It's gorgeous.
It sort of maintains like some moisture in the palette.
You can kind of like gunk it up and layer,
which is really nice,
'cause sometimes watercolor can feel really thin
and then you have to like let it dry
and do a bunch of layers.
When I've directed music videos,
I usually watercolor the storyboards
'cause I'm like very visual in getting my ideas across.
Yellow is my favorite color in the world.
It's oh so bright.
It's like a much quieter sort of less social form of art
than what I do for a living.
I want to use these for the rest of my life.
It's so pretty.
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These are Tuck Kits by a brand called Unclockable.
I really wanted to bring these and show these off today
because they are really useful for the dolls
or anybody who needs to tuck.
I have them on my rider
for every photo shoot thing I ever do.
It's like cute and it comes with detailed instructions
on how to do a tuck because nobody likes tucking.
It's not really fun.
Beforehand, I had kind of just been winging it
with like tape, sometimes even duct tape, which is not fun.
This is like the most comfortable option I've ever had
and I also just love that it's like
by trans people for trans people.
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These are my headphones.
I prefer a wired headphone.
These are great for the plane or being on set
and you wanna tune everything out.
I use music as like an emotional cue sometimes for work.
Even within Euphoria, I would have different playlists
for like different relationships I had
with different characters.
I also find just in life I kind of listen to something
like really intensely until I tire it out
and then I just like don't touch it for a while
and then when that piece of music comes back into my life,
it's sort of like when you smell like a scent
and it takes you back to a point in life
when that scent was around.
I feel like music does the same thing for me.
Like if I ever miss Euphoria,
Pure Heroine by Lorde was like my album
to kind of get in like to that angsty,
high schooler teenage girl who's sad headspace.
I would listen to Pure Heroine a lot.
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This is a little snail plushy.
Not to say that I need this particular snail,
but I do need something of this squishy, sweet nature.
I just saw this when I was in Japan and my heart lept.
I knew that it needed to come home with me.
So I've literally had this with me
for like two months straight now.
It's really great because it fits in a purse
or a pocket whenever I need something to touch
or look at because it's so f*ckin' cute.
Wait, can I curse?
Whatever.
It's like a binky, is honestly what it is.
If that makes me an adult baby, then so be it.
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I have a really big problem with overhead lighting.
It's, you know, something that's hard to have a problem with
because it's everywhere all the time.
But I do what I can to control locations
and circ*mstances where I can.
This light in particular is by a brand called Halo Addition.
The light that these produce is like a huge orb.
It makes a giant circle
and it does this just like gorgeous gradient.
You can turn off all the lights in like your trailer
and bask in beautiful sunset.
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It is also very important to have portable forms
of entertainment with me,
'cause there's a lot of sitting around and waiting
when you're an actor or traveling or whatever.
So I usually like to carry cards around
and these ones are really special
because they're Ponyo themed.
My sister gave these to me.
They have beautiful stills of the movie.
They're so cute and Ponyo is like one
of my favorite films ever.
One of my favorite games in the world is called Farkle.
It's a dice game.
You actually need six dice,
but I have four here so I couldn't play Farkle
right now if I wanted to.
It gets really competitive.
It's kind of like half strategy, half chance.
To kind of raise the stakes a little, you can bet.
I did get Anne Hathaway to play Farkle with us.
She got really into it before she had to start filming.
We had to finish the game without her
because you know, she was the lead of the movie
and she had a lot to do.
But when she was involved, she was in on it
and she was really good at it also.
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These might just look like legal pads,
but these kind of single handedly keep my life together.
I'm a to-do list person.
It's the only way I can remember to do anything.
These come with me everywhere.
It's lined and there's a little margin
for the checkbox in there.
Checking it off is the best feeling.
It's pretty up there as far as like dopamine hits go.
If for some reason I don't have this,
I will try and make a to-do list,
like, in the notes on my phone.
I never look at it again.
I don't know.
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