Yes, Anna Delvey Had a Stylist For Her Trial — Because of Course She Did

“Vogue present! Vogue present! Vogue present at lunch!” is my precise response to studying that Anna Delvey — in any other case often known as the “Soho Grifter” or by her actual identify Anna Sorokin — just about placed on a vogue present for the jury at her trial. Although this element of Sorokin’s sordid historical past of conning her manner into New York’s most elite circles seems like one thing straight out of a fictional TV present (like Netflix’s upcoming dramatization of her story, “Inventing Anna”), it’s totally a lot actual. In spite of everything, if you are going to pose as an harmless socialite, you have to look the half.

When trial images surfaced of Sorokin clad in a black costume with a plunging neckline, it bought folks speaking — and understandably so. But it surely additionally left everybody questioning how she got here into the possession of an Yves Saint Laurent shirt and Victoria Beckham pants whereas behind bars.

In accordance with The New York Publish, Sorokin’s legal professional, Todd Spodek, made an affiliate run to H&M “and spend $200 on one thing that did not scream ‘inmate'” in an effort to sway the jury’s opinion relating to Sorokin’s “guilty-looking” look. Sorokin, who arrived in her Rikers Island jail uniform, did a fast 180 and appeared earlier than the court docket sporting a black blazer over a beige sweater, black capris, and white Puma sneakers. (Her authorized workforce initially bought her pointy stilettos to put on, however the Division of Correction denied the footwear citing it as “too harmful.”) The wardrobe disaster was averted, and it was just the start of Sorokin’s courtroom runway.

Spodek and his authorized workforce later upped the ante. In a 2019 e-mail to GQ, Spodek confirmed he employed Sorokin a stylist. “It’s crucial that Anna costume appropriately for the trial. Anna’s type was a driving power in her enterprise and life, and it is part of who she is. I would like the jury to see that facet of her and enlisted a stylist to help in slecting [sic] the suitable outfits for trial. Nonetheless the logistics of dropping off trial outfits at Rikers Island doest [sic] not work in our favor,” he wrote.

Her first of many buzzworthy seems to be included an all-black ensemble of tights, flats, a choker necklace, and that notorious black costume with the plunging neckline. Notably, Sorokin’s pin-straight hairdo regarded like she had simply stepped out of Drybar. The next day, Sorokin walked into court docket carrying that Saint Laurent shirt and Victoria Beckham pants. The mastermind behind these iconic courtroom outfits was stylist Anastasia Walker, whose A-list clientele contains T-Ache and G-Eazy.

As backward and twisted as all this will appear, Sorokin having a stylist for her trial — the place she was in the end discovered responsible of conning $275,000 from associates, companies, and banks — may be essentially the most genuine factor about her.