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CHANEL IMAN
It's great to be able come home from all the hard work in New York and just come home to mama. It's always great. We're here at my L.A. house with my mom. Well, it's her house but this is where I grew up
CHINA
It's our house. This is home.
CHANEL IMAN
Yeah, it's our... it's a charming house.
CHINA
She's always said, “I want to model, I want to model, I want to model.”
CHANEL IMAN
Me and my friends always played dress up. We had sleepovers all the time, have runway contests, just pose a little, no. My mom was always the judge and...
CHINA
Right and the...
CHANEL IMAN
I was always the tallest.
You guys are the first to meet Mr. Louis Dior. I asked Mr. John Galliano if I can name him after Dior. We’re traveling in this, like, little Louis bag all the time. He's always glammed up.
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CHANEL IMAN
Well, I got my driver's license when I was 15 years old. I was like, “Mom, mom, mom, I have to get this.”
Before I got the permit, my mom let me drive...
CHINA
Yeah. I taught her how to drive.
CHANEL IMAN
Yeah, she did teach me how to drive.
CHINA
She's a good driver, but I took her in the boonies where she couldn't hurt anybody or anything or us.
CHANEL IMAN
Yeah. She does my hair, she does my cooking...
CHINA
I do the little things.
CHANEL IMAN
My cleaning.
CHINA
I do things that...
CHANEL IMAN
Great. I don’t even know how I could do it
CHINA
She doesn’t even know what I’m doing. I just take care of it.
CHANEL IMAN
Even when we had our little time, mother and daughter, she's like, “Ah, you're coming with me?”
CHINA
Spats and she's just like, “I'm mad at you, but you're still coming with me.”
CHANEL IMAN
Yeah.
CHINA
Like, “Okay, I’m mad at you too and I’m on my way.”
[LAUGH]
CHANEL IMAN
This is so special to me, this cover, because I’m partly Korean...
CHINA
It was so unbelievably special because I was born in Korea, in Seoul, Korea. I’m half Korean. In the '50s, after the war, the American GI babies were cast out and I was one of those. I’m here 50 years later. My daughter is on the cover of the Korean Vogue and it says Black Beauties.
CHANEL IMAN
Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I hear my mom playing--it's bright and early when she plays, but it's really nice and soothing and really -- I don't know, it just makes me feel at home. So I’m glad to share her with you. Go ahead, play a little something.
CHINA
I'm just going to play a little chord or something.
