Isaac Mizrahi: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

The question

What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Isaac Mizrahi

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

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John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966

When I was growing up on a farm in rural Alabama, I fell in love with raising chickens. They seem truly innocent. Whenever I'm around chickens, I feel happy.

Recorded Vanity Fair, Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗

Michelle Yeoh

Being with my family and kids, on an island, eating and drinking.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 July 2022 source ↗

Lauren Bacall

Waking up in the morning.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2004 source ↗

Jean Smart

My kids are in the house. I’ve been gardening in my vegetable garden. I have absolutely zero obligations or calls to return. Now I’m fixing dinner with music playing and having a glass of wine.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2024 source ↗