JB: What’s your best kept style secret?
I search for 70s vintage floral dresses on eBay. You can never quite tell how something is going to fit, so I limit myself to pieces under 20 dollars. I’m also a big fan of throwing a leather jacket over pretty much anything.
JB: If you weren’t an actress, what occupation interests you?
ER: I would love to have been an astronaut or (more realistically) work in research for NASA. Space and science always fascinated me in school. (
The Fashion Source)
Rossum was warned about the series’ nudity, which pilot director Mark Mylod encouraged her to explore before her final audition. Rossum says Mylod recommended she watch the kitchen scene from the British series’ pilot-a down-and-dirty sequence that’s also featured in the Showtime take-as a barometer for what to expect. “I saw it and thought it was really funny,” Rossum says, noting that she drank a beer before filming what wound up becoming her first onscreen sex scene. “I thought it had absolutely no kind of salacious, tawdry cheese factor and no fakeness to it.” (
Backstage.com)
‘Shameless’ star and singer Emmy Rossum is the latest celebrity to partner with a fashion brand to hawk handbags.
The 24-year-old actress and designer Elie Tahari will debut the “Emmy” bucket bag in March. The woven leather handbag, which come in four different sizes and colors will retail for $398 to $798, reports Women’s Wear Daily.
The star had been wearing Tahari’s designs for years and the collaboration began as a conversation about what Rossum liked and didn’t like about the line’s handbags.
“I said, ‘You know what Emmy?” Tahari told WWD. “You come in and you design it how you like.’”
A portion of the proceeds will go to Safe Horizon, a charity that works to help abused children.
But will Rossum be coming out with a full lifestyle line anytime soon? Not yet, she said.
“One thing at a time,” she told WWD. “I want to get really great at what I do first, then maybe later I’ll branch off. Right now I’ll leave it to the people who do it best.” (
NY Daily News)