But when it comes to another run for the White House, I'm hoping she has something to say about equality for women that goes beyond the scrunchie.
Remember the furore over President Barack Obama's 2014 tan suit, or the much-derided "scrunchie" Hillary Clinton chose to pull her hair back into in 2012?
At Trattoria dell'Arte, a few days after the screening, Shadyac prefaced a lunch conversation by following the monastic practice of emptying his pockets of his possessions: a billfold wrapped in a black scrunchie, and a white scrunchie.
She kicked off her shoes, tied her hair in a scrunchie, and tucked one foot underneath her on her chair, as a long line of women stepped forward, paperbacks in hand.
Many covers featured objects that indirectly represented Lolita or her vulnerability (socks, Mary Janes, a scrunchie), and others focussed on the theme of obsession, or what the design critic Alice Twemlow in her essay calls "Humbert's worldview".
She wore a clingy, fine-gauge cashmere sweater and low-rise jeans, her hair was pulled back into a fur scrunchie, and a pair of Chanel sunglasses sat atop her head.
Mpongo, an animated, open woman, with her hair pulled back in a bright scrunchie, told me that she had grown up singing in the church choir.
"That's a weird-looking move, dude," Batali, who wore orange Crocs and a matching scrunchie, said.
One of the researchers observed that a scrunchie was something you used to pull back your hair, and that Johnson was wearing a pink one.
When Johnson paged to "scrunchie," she announced that it was a kind of cracker.
He was around seventy years of age, with a long white beard and ponytail, each kept in place by a scrunchie.
