Sevigny was discovered on the street in New York City in by a magazine editor, who offered her jobs both modeling and interning at Sassy Magazine, a teen magazine aimed at girls with alternative tastes. In , she attracted the attention of journalist Jay McInerney, who wrote a 7-page article about her for The New Yorker, in which he called a then year-old Sevigny the "coolest girl in the world. A long line of roles in generally well-received independent and often experimental films throughout the decade established Sevigny's reputation as an indie film queen. Despite her brush with mainstream success, Sevigny continued acting in mostly independent art house films, such as American Psycho , Party Monster , and Dogville