The Millennial girl revealed

the mill | the millennial girl | simone

Like other millennials I’ve met in recent years, Simone Aptekman has always felt that she was born in the wrong generation. She finds truth and pleasure in things more tangible than "the cloud,” things like her typewriter and vinyl records. As a model in New York City, she offers a unique perspective on separating herself from social media madness. Are we all creating our own brand or is it really us out there on Instagram?

Simone is also a writer; the daughter of Russian refugees; the youngest woman to receive an MBA from Babson College; a “classic girl”; a romantic; a go-getter. She grew up in a Boston project as her father built a successful company from nothing. When Simone was only fourteen her father died and ever since then, she has been devoted to returning to work for the family business. Simone and I chat on the phone while she walks through a market in Manhattan (I sit on my living room couch drinking a beer). We discuss the hardships of dating apps, the power of a handwritten letter, cross-generational relationships, why models get a bad rap, and what a utopia looks like in the modern day. By constantly moving forward with the mentality of an old soul, this woman is destined to inspire..