Elizabeth Olsen’s Closet Is Almost Exclusively Vintage or The Row

Elizabeth Olsen may be in the business of looking good, but her investments aren’t in her wardrobe.

“I love buying food, and I love buying homegoods. Linens. I buy a lot of small tables… I’ll spend money, but it’s not on clothes,” the actress, 36, told InStyle for the magazine’s new cover story published on Tuesday, Oct. 21.

In fact, the Eternity star’s wardrobe comes from shopping vintage or her twin sisters, Mary-Kate and Ashley, who dress their younger sibling in pieces plucked from The Row, their very own clothing brand. (In 2021, they outfitted the Marvel star in an elegantly subdued gown for the Emmys.)

According to the magazine, “she only wears vintage, like her Cartier watch and Levis, and things her sisters give her from The Row, like her coat, she tells me. Her version of conscious consumerism.”

Although, there is one new designer item Olsen couldn’t resist: a pair of a pair of red Phoebe Philo loafers. The purchase has has a funny origin story too, with Olsen telling InStyle that she wore them in a pilot she filmed, but production “wouldn’t give them to me,” she explained, “so I bought them. They just feel so good on my feet.”

So where else does Olsen’s dough actually go? Protecting what she considers one of her most important assets. “It’s on skin products, it’s on lasers. I don’t want to do anything crazy to my face, so I invest in its elasticity,” she said.

Elsewhere in her cover story, Olsen opened about the beginnings of her acting career and how she nearly followed in the footsteps of her then starlet sisters, who found fame as toddlers the into their pre-adolescent and teenage years with Full House, New York Minute and a variety of other movies.

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“I thought I wanted to be a child actor,” she said, “but then my ballet teacher wouldn’t put me in The Nutcracker because I’d missed so many rehearsals. And that was the only Nutcracker I wasn’t in my whole life because I was auditioning for TV or film or whatever.” 

Turns out, she really did just want to be a kid. “I wanted to have the career I have now, but I didn’t need to do it until later. I wanted to do recess with my friends,” Olsen shared.

Olsen is coming off filming the rom-com Eternity, telling InStyle: “It was nice to do a romantic comedy that was more about an entire human life. An ordinary relationship that is this huge love story in their lives. A simple enjoyment of something that maybe has been lost, that we admire in our grandparents or something. It’s a happy movie about an ordinary love. Truly ordinary.”