Ali Micheal

ali michealali michealPLAYMATEAli Michael sports a threadbare Marilyn Manson T-shirt with enough holes to pattern a slice of Swiss cheese. “I took this shirt home to Texas once,” she says, sipping instant coffee in her SoHo apartment—her preferred joe on mornings like this when she lacks the energy to brew the real thing. “My mom and I were heading out when she said, ‘Sorry, can you please change?’ But overall, I don’t have to tone it down.” Such is the life of a woman who belongs to two worlds....