Molly Ringwald: You’ve always been such an icon for me in terms of how I want to look. You’re very fashionable but you never look like you’re a slave to it. You just have this flair. What is your first clothing memory?

Cindy Sherman: Oh gosh, I was maybe eleven or so. And because I loved paper dolls, I made paper-doll versions of all the clothes I would wear to school. I had a little pegboard with days of the week, and on the weekend—Sunday night, I guess—I’d figure out my outfits for the whole week ahead.

MR: That’s so sweet. You probably don’t have them anymore.

CS: No. But when I was in college, I remember thinking about it, and I did an art-project version of the same thing, only without the days of the week. I just made a doll of myself with my underwear, and photographed all my clothes, and made it into a little children’s book of school clothes, play clothes ... Then I made an animation from it. It’s sort of how a lot of my work evolved, out of that.

MR: When you first started making art and taking photographs, did you know that it was going to be only you in the pictures? Did you ever think you were going to include other people?