Jones’s parents split when she was 12. “When I heard they were separating, my first thought was, Ooh, two houses! Freedom!” Jones recalls. “The sadness hit much later.” Happily, Lipton and her ex remain close, even spending holidays together.
After high school, Jones found her calling at L.A.’s Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, though she left at 19 to work for Hilfiger.
On the L.A. party scene, Jones is more often the DJ than a guest. “My sister succeeded in scholastics; music and pop culture was my knack,” she says. She also paints—sometimes tweaked Disney scenes, like Winnie the Pooh wearing Air Jordans. Her family indulges her Disney obsession. (In addition to Kidada and Rashida, Quincy Jones has five children from other relationships with whom Kidada is close.) Her father even wears Disney Jibbitz in his Crocs because he thinks Kidada designs the trinkets. “I tell him they’re not mine,” Jones says, “and he says, ‘They may as well be. I tell everyone they are.’
“My family advocates doing what fulfills your soul,” she says, adding that the notion that she’s had everything handed to her by her parents is wrong. “They’ve always said, ‘You’re a big girl; figure it out on your own.’”
And judging by her gig at Disney, Jones has done a pretty good job in that department. “I’ve landed in a place where I can make everything I want for myself,” she says. “It’s playtime for me. It’s a dream.”
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