Does she feel a certain way about seeing so many things she wore then revisited on Demna’s Gucci runway, or by other designers and on everyday people?
“It just makes me feel really proud and happy, because I invented Y2K fashion,” Hilton says. “I’m happy anytime I see people inspired by my look or seeing things on the runway that remind me of the way I used to dress, and I still do.”
On January 30, Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir was released in theaters. The film is a documentary that traces Hilton’s musical and personal evolution, contextulized around her second studio album, Infinite Icon, released in 2024. “It was incredible being back in the studio and having Sia as my executive producer and writing with her,” Hilton says, “and with my film, just seeing everyone packing the theaters all dressed in pink and velour, I’m just really proud,” she says.
Hilton has also become an advocate for protecting children and specifically, reforming the “troubled teen” industry for institutional care, of which she was a victim. “I’ve always had so many different facets to me, I never wanted to be one thing,” she tells me. “Doing my advocacy work is truly the most meaningful work of my life, and I’m so proud that I have now passed two federal bills and almost 20 state laws to protect children from abuse,” she says, “to become the hero I needed when I was a little girl is so healing to my inner child.”
There’s also the small fact that Hilton says she’s just finished recording her third studio album. “This is what I was born to do,” she says.
