WSJ Magazine: Miranda & Evan talk about their marriage, coronavirus, black lives matter and Trump

A light and frothy love story to cheer us up !
Model and Kora Organics founder Miranda Kerr and her husband Snapchat‘s Evan Spiegel chat to WSJ magazine July issue via designscene.

Spiegel on his priority when he met Kerr:
He told Kerr, “[Snap] is like the center of my life. If that’s a deal- breaker for you, I totally get it.” He recognized that the center of Kerr’s life was Flynn, her son with her ex-husband, the actor Orlando Bloom. On that first date, he presented her with a gingerbread house he’d made, icing it with her and Flynn’s names.

Spiegel on his wife’s understanding:
“She never made me feel bad for working hard, so I didn’t have that stress of letting anyone down. But I was letting myself down,” he says. “My dad worked all the time when I was growing up. It was wearing on my mom. My parents ended up splitting up.”

Kerr on sharing that work ethic:
Her early modeling career was a part-time juggle with high school, with Kerr attending photo shoots during vacations and holidays, always with one of her parents chaperoning. After graduation, she began to travel for work—flying economy to and from Australia. “We worked long hours, but I saw my parents with their own businesses, working long hours,” she says. “I thought that’s what everyone did.”

On their first meeting:
Kerr and Spiegel met at a party hosted by Louis Vuitton at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Kerr had a great time. She told Spiegel her favorite piece of classical music was “Spiegel im Spiegel,” a plaintive ballad by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. He hadn’t heard it. Kerr got Spiegel’s cellphone number. Glenda Bailey, at the time the editor of Harper’s Bazaar, leaned over from Kerr’s other side and whispered, “You’re going to marry that guy.”

And then, before dinner was over, Spiegel left abruptly. “All of a sudden he gets up,” Kerr says.
I thought I had no chance [with Miranda], so I wasn’t going to waste my time,” Spiegel says. A month later, emboldened by several glasses of sake after a fashion shoot in Tokyo, Kerr sent him a text message. “Just wondering—did you ever listen to that song, ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’?” she asked.

This is one of the things I love about Miranda,” Spiegel says. “Everyone is welcome. It’s the Aussie way.” That includes Bloom. “What I saw from Miranda and Orlando was very different from what I experienced,” Spiegel says. “I am in no way a replacement for Flynn’s dad. I feel like [I’m part of] Team Flynn.”

Spiegel on deciding to stop promoting President Trump’s account in the Discover section:
Trump’s campaign responded by posting on Snapchat that the platform was trying “to rig the 2020 election” and referring to “radical Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel.”
“It’s obviously untrue,” Spiegel says of the vote-rigging allegations. “That’s the rhetoric they use when they’re upset. We’re a business and we can put what we want on our platform,” he says.

Spiegel on their contrasting natures:
“OK, we do see the world very differently, and that’s, in my view, a huge strength,” Spiegel says a few minutes later. “There’s nothing more helpful than having someone who loves you, and knows you really well, point out a different perspective,” he adds.