† The Dandy

Dress: COREY (Similar) / Shoes: Jeffrey Campbell / Rings: Verameat / Lips: Stila


I do a lot of part-time work to make that moneyyyyy. I love my day job in fashion PR but LA is not a cheap place to live and I have a closet to fill up with shoes that I'll wear once and then never again. (But they make me happy, and that's what matters, I'm told.) This weekend's job was seating at... The Daytime Emmy Awards. Yeeessss. Yes. Days of Our Lives crew and cast, The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful, and all the other daytime soaps crew and cast showed up at Warner Bros for their Emmy chance.

Tbh I didn't recognize any of them as I haven't seen a daytime soap since approx 1997 but Tyra Banks hosted and it was fairly intimate and quaint. Not what I would have expected from something with Emmy in the title, but I guess they scale it down for the soap stars.

I walked away feeling like I had a lot to learn about daytime tv, so maybe my next step in life is to take a week to watch every Young and the Restless episode. Just maybe.

Do you guys watch daytime tv? Any favorites?


Photography by the talented TAPPERINTO.

YOU KNOW YOU LIVE IN HOLLYWOOD WHEN ....

..... your very first project gets axed.

It gets metaphorically packed up and driven away in a truck like this picture.

I've talked to so many people who tell me stories like, "I played lead against David Spade in an pilot episode for Fox," or, "We spent six hours getting into wardrobe and makeup for the battle scene!" I get excited and ask, "cool, what show was that??" and they sort of eyeball the ground, shrug and say, "oh, well, it didn't get picked up," "they cut that scene out of the movie," or "it was never released."

So it happens. A lot.

LA River: once Hilary Duff landed a spaceship here?

I spent a day hanging out by the LA river after answering a casting call to be a "bad kid" in a music video for an upcoming musician. There were about ten of us in the bad kid family pack, and together we roamed under bridges, into tunnels, and across train tracks. We swung weaponry we found on playgrounds or stole out of sheds and generally did our best to look fierce at all times.

The crew was legit. There were cookies.

I was faceless until the nice artist painted it on.

To be fair, the production had a quality of Doomed From the Start about it: we were kicked out of places due to lack of appropriate filming permits, nearly became felons by hanging out on train tracks, and all wore lingering expressions of, "wait, what are we supposed to be doing now?" 

Most of the bad kids, looking fierce even before getting makeup/hair done.

I did a lot of dancing, fist pumping, weapon banging, and dirt kicking that I presume looked awesome on camera (how could it not) but shall never see the light of a public screen. A few weeks after we filmed, I saw the artist at an event, bounced over happily to ask on the status of the music video, and was handed the bad news instead: they were going to reshoot it. Everything we shot had been cut.

Our director is definitely going to hit the A-list some day. You can tell by the way that he points.

Why was it cut? Creative differences. It's always creative differences. 

Cue my sadface. Regardless, I got to hang out with really neat crew members, get makeup did, dance around silly, and visit some parts of Los Angeles that most people don't get to see. (Because they're not legal.)

Note that I was also having the best. hair day. ever.

Here's a still from the never-before-seen, never-to-be-seen music video, and here's hoping that none of my other projects get cut, right?!

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† SUCKER

• black dress with cutout flowers, c/o CHOIES

• green sunnies, gifted (similar cheapies) 

• mary jane heels, F21 (similar) 

I ended up flitting around Downtown Disney when I wore this yesterday, and I swear all the cast members stopped me to say how cute it was.  I like that this is girly and classically cut with just a tiny bit of extra eccentricity.



California is hot, you guys. Walking outside in LA is like opening the door to a sauna, though (mostly) without the nakedish people in towels. Sometimes there is nakedish people without towels present. Maybe I should start carrying towels to give to the nakedish people. I dunno. I have seen some things. Things that I cannot unsee.

Because sunsets are not created equally, here's downtown LA as seen from Grand Park while one of my new fave bands, DELUKA, play some glittery rock n roll gems.

† Silverlake Lounge

 

I had a killer time dancing it up to the tunes of John Flanagan while celebrating the birthday of one of my biffies. (Hi Raz! I am happy you were born!)

Since I've kinda been living out of a suitcase while I hop around Southern California, in preparation I tried to pack some of the more..... accessible pieces of clothing of I own 'cause I knew I'd be getting a lot of mileage out of it. This rad kapowwwww! dress is the only thing I own by Lazy Oaf but it's sooo comfy and everyone loves it and idk bury me in it, basically. Tights were a good call for this outfit; helped keep the bottom of the dress in place, and when I flopped face-first into the backseat of a car at the end of the night, people only had to deal with a surprise purple rump in their line of sight. It could've been worse!

We went to Silverlake Ramen before the show and it was A+++++ tasty. If anyone else came to the show, I was the one at the back with my face buried in a giant to-go cup of ramen. No regrets.

• clear heel lita by Jeffrey Campbell
• kapow bodycon by Lazy Oaf (ON SALE!!! GET IT!)
• godzilla robot necklace c/o Verameat
• ladders up bracelet c/o Verameat
  
  
  
  I leave you with this:

† Back in Black (& Grey)

• mirrored glasses, H&M

• ace of pentacles necklace, PandaEyes

• oversized cardigan, Material Girl

• airborne unicorn opaque lipstick , Lime Crime

• hooded saint dress, Karmaloop (as always, use repcode "amenfashionxx" for 20% off)

• shoes, thrifted

I told myself I would never buy mirrored sunglasses (especially aviators.) I've made fun of them for so long. I called them the new trucker hats. And now I'm wearing them. What happened?

How are you guys? What have you been up to that's exciting? Link me to your posts or your tweets or your whatevers. I want to live vicariously through you all. Share what's good.

Two things to wrap this up with: Lulu's is having an extra-25%-off-their-sale sale, and I am obsessed with this song.

† Oh, Well

 

I thought I was being clever by putting together these two pieces, lolllll. Do you guys get it??? Wanted? Peace signs? MAKE LOVE NOT WAR?

I can't say enough good things about this Freak of Nature sweater -- it's soft and fringey and breathable and every time I wear it people are like, "....... Oh my gosh, your sweater." Not in the "..... oh my gosh, your clothes" way that I get sometimes where they're not necessarily complimenting it, just taking the time to note that whatever I have on is weird/unusual/bizarre and the only way they can get it across in a socially acceptable way is by framing it as a compliment. Sometimes "your shoes are really cool!" means that my shoes are cool, and sometimes it means "dude your shoes are bizarre how are they even things that you put on your feet." 

I want to be like Lady Gaga -- let me explain before you roll your eyes -- where no one really sees what she wears anymore, just that she's Gaga and she probably has something weird on and that's neat and she's Gaga. She has transcended above her own self-created image and I just cannot get over how cool that is.

• sunglasses, H&M

• wanted jumper (on sale!), Freak of Nature

• avalos in white (and black), Jeffrey Campbell

• peace sign midi dress, Motel Rocks | use "amenfashionxx" for 20% at motelrocks.com

The Holy Grail of Shoes

† Valentino Rockstud Slingback †

The Valentino Rockstud. It haunts my dreams. With its four-digit price tag, it's also only accessible in said dreams, but ugh. Gorgeous. Perfect. Marry me, Valentino slingback?

I always have something of a moral struggle when it comes to "knock-offs" -- cheaper, yeah, but an imitation and without the satisfaction of wearing the VALENTINO ROCKSTUD. Anyone have any look-alike suggestions? :/ 



 

† Décollage

 

I was listening to Adam Lambert as I got dressed this morning and I ended up with so much black eyeshadow on. They should consider putting a sticker warning for that on his albums. Parental Advisory: Explicitly Fierce Content. May cause unexpected strutting?

I've been married to this cardigan since I got it a few weeks ago. I had been eyeing it on PLNDR, then I pounced when they had one of their (many!) promo sales. They advertise PLNDR as "members only" to make it seem exclusive -- it's really not? You just have to make an account to do anything, which seems about par for the course for most sites.

 Oh, PLNDR, you and your convenient mobile app bring so many packages to my door.

As always, I'm a Karmaloop rep (PLNDR is part of the fam) and "amenfashionxx" will get you 20% off. Cool!

• black crows cardigan, Somedays Lovin
• black slip, thrifted (similar? )
• leggings, F21 (old, I wore them here too!)
• white patent 1460s, Dr Marten

Freak of Nature, Latest and Greatest

A few weeks ago I spazzed out about a new line, Freak of Nature, and its knock-out designer, Vanessa Kortlang. She's been making waves since then -- Topshop is going to debut some stuff in early May, and there's a bunch of new pieces out on Asos.


This stuff is killer. Check it out.





Look for Freak of Nature on Facebook, and shop it at ASOS and Yayer.