OUR HOSTS: 

Corinne Foxx - @corinnefoxx

Natalie McMillan - @nataliemcm and @shopnataliemcmillan 

What we're drinking: 2018 Gouffier Montagny Terroirs de Marnes 

MEET OUR GUESTS: 

Dani + Emma -  @daniandemmastyle and daniandemma.com 

ABOUT OUR GUESTS: 

Fashion styling duo Dani + Emma are the masterminds behind some of Corinne’s most iconic looks. Emma got her start in the fashion industry by interning at magazines like Allure and Glamour, eventually working her way up to assisting a celebrity stylist. Dani started her career in the advertising world, but transitioned into fashion and worked her way up the styling ladder  after moving to New York City. 

The two connected on a project for the Oscars and knew that if they joined forces, they could offer something really special and unique. Both Dani and Emma draw inspiration from rock legends like David Bowie and Kurt Cobain and believe that every closet needs just a few basic, but well-tailored items like a white t-shirt, jeans, and a leather jacket. 

TOPIC: 

Today’s episode on cultivating your personal style comes highly requested! It can be hard to navigate trends and figure out which silhouettes work best for your body, so we invited styling team Dani + Emma on to discuss how to have fun with fashion and develop your aesthetic. They share where they draw inspiration from and tips for investing in timeless pieces. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Dani and Emma got into the styling space and decided to team up 
• Where their interests in fashion comes from 
• How Rock’n’Roll inspired them to experiment with fashion 
• Balancing their flair with their client’s individual style 
• The iconic staple items to have in your wardrobe
• What items to splurge on vs. where you can save
• Their #1 tip for having great looking clothes 

END OF THE SHOW: 

Corinne and Natalie introduce Hottie of the Week: Cher 

WINE RATING:

2018 Gouffier Montagny Terroirs de Marnes = 7.75/Cher 

WRAP UP:

To wrap up the episode, we play Would You Rather. Nat would rather be 2 hours early to everything instead of 20 minutes late to important events. Her rationale is that she can binge Ted Lasso in her car while she waits. Corinne would rather show up to a red carpet event with pants covered in dog hair instead of a shirt covered in stains because at least people love dogs. Ketchup stains...not so much. 

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[00:00:20] Natalie McMillan: and each week we cover a new topic and we drink a new bottle of wine.

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[00:00:44] Natalie McMillan: the first time I worked with them.

[00:00:53] Corinne Foxx: I wonder what it was. I don't remember, but they have created some of my best, most iconic look, most iconic looks most recently my Spider-Man outfit, which I love. We're going to be talking to them about the staple. To have in your wardrobe, what to do, if you think you don't have a style or like, don't know where to go or how to figure one out and what trends to avoid this season.

And we actually got requested this episode so many times we have so many people reach out and like, can you do an episode on like style, like finding clothes that you like. I personally really struggle with this. You have a great sense of personal

And I've always thought, I don't know how to do that.

[00:01:58] Natalie McMillan: lines, classy, especially when you're doing like your business, you have your business hat on, then you've got this little, like a pantsuit on,

We have to be less fancy. We've done a lot of them. You look great in a pantsuit. Thank you. Okay. But first now let's get into the wine. What are we drinking? This app? Okay. We

[00:02:35] Corinne Foxx: Mo moan. I believe Montag. That's what I'm tag. I would say that.

[00:02:47] Corinne Foxx: Tevye I'll do mound. Oh, that part, that

[00:02:54] Corinne Foxx: ocean ration territory. Yeah. I'm going to say it's like a palliation mountain. Control. I

[00:03:06] Corinne Foxx: you know, y'all know I've been in French for a year and I still can't read it or pronounce

I'm never going to be able to, I've just given up on nervous that I'm not

[00:03:19] Natalie McMillan: she brought in her little oatmeal. It haulage and latte.

[00:03:26] Natalie McMillan: but you know what? I think just lean into it.

It's not like you drink seven cups a day. Some people do that.

Okay.

Like how long does it actually take me to do these things? And then. I can mix and match and add them up depending on what I need to do before I need to leave the house. So I know how much time I actually need. Okay,

And because my whole goal for 2022 is to not be late to things you, what? I was like a little bit early, early it's because I don't know how long things take. Yes. I started getting rid of. An hour and a half early, because I need all that time to take Archie out to find my socks. I always have to I'm like, why are almost locksmith?

Yes. Like all of that stuff adds up and then it's like, that's why I'm always like six minutes late to things because

So now I'm going to have a running list on my phone. Of all the like,

[00:05:16] Natalie McMillan: Yes. So this just started like a few days ago, so I don't have very many labs or I don't have very many that I've done, but I'm so curious, brushing my teeth and putting Zeplin to bed takes me 10 minutes.

[00:05:47] Corinne Foxx: minutes.

Oh, wow. Like after like a dinner, like washing everything,

[00:06:04] Corinne Foxx: I just realized today. I said, it takes me an hour to get ready. Yeah. Then I need 30 minutes to get Archie put away, to get, to pack my little bag, to find my keys.

So it really darn half. I

Yeah. How long does it actually take me to like clean my bathroom? It took

It's like, it's so large. So I thought this might ruin my life anyways. Okay. Okay. Let's get into the episode and talk about why we chose this topic. Obviously it was highly, highly requested, but also I think it's just

We can express ourselves through our clothes and it kind of shows off our personalities. Like, you know, somebody can walk down the street and you kind of know what their personality might be based on how they're dressed. And it's cool that there's such a variety from one person to the next. Such an individual

Yeah. Yeah. And I, Danny and Emma are like the perfect experts to have on their intro. They wrote that they are just a couple of fashion fairies bringing the magic to the red carpet, cover stories and the stage. I agree with that.

[00:07:47] Corinne Foxx: Yeah, let's bring them on.

Hello, Danny and Emma.

So excited to have you guys on. I was just telling our listeners, the last time we worked together was on Spider-Man, which every time we worked together on. I think that was my favorite one. And that was my favorite one. And we had two great options for it too. So no matter what I was going to look

[00:08:22] Dani: good.

That's a good problem to have we keep running into that problem. Too many good looks to choose.

And then we'll save this for something else. And let's just pin this in case we want to wear it later. And it's like,

[00:08:55] Emma: I went to school for fashion and like, I. For like a lore and glamor and like kind of worked my way up to them becoming an assistant or like a celebrity stylist.

So I did that for awhile. You

And then I, I just started interning and just kind of went from that. And then I quit the job and yeah.

[00:09:33] Dani: We met actually, when we were both assisting in LA oh, town for a reason, like. Yeah, that's a big joke coming up and she had to leave.

So she had to skirt, it was a big job job. And then she had to find someone to try and replace it because she was full-time with her stylist. And I was more of a freelancer. I kind of jumped around and worked with different people. So I came on to help with that project. And then the love connection with, and then

I was like, I realized, I don't know your guys's last name. Cause you guys are just Danny and Emma. I was like, Hey, no worries.

[00:10:11] Corinne Foxx: What do you think? Well, okay. When you hopped onto the zoo, now I know Danny's last name is Charlton. Yeah. I don't know your last name. You guys are just like a unit Rubinstein ruined Stein.

Okay. You actually might've told me that. Yeah. You're like, yes, I did Korean, but I'm curious, where were you? Two, like always fashionable, like her whole life or was there, or interested in fashion or was there like a pivotal moment where you were like, no, this is what I want to do. This is what I love, or I'm very interested in it because for me.

I have never felt very comfortable in the fashion space, even though I did modeling. So I'm curious how you guys fell into it. I've always

But yeah, just music and. It wasn't always a good little on TV. Yeah. What

[00:11:27] Dani: So it was like a fun way to express ourselves. Yeah. And I think obviously as we've got older, More fine. We've refined that style from an early age. I was definitely always like trying out new things and trying to be like the grungy. Grungiest still like the hottest. So like whatever it was doing the most with everything

Cause I found pictures the other day of me as like a six-year-old and I was like, M I w like, definitely my mom, let me dress myself.

[00:12:04] Natalie McMillan: There was a lot of patterns, a lot of patterns happening in one outfit, but I'm curious. What would you say your guys is now that you are refined?

Is your personal style? How would you describe it? Well,

[00:12:29] Corinne Foxx: at the Intel sheet, my dad was like, you two are like a rock and roll duo.

Like you need a rock band.

[00:12:40] Dani: waiting the band name. He was going to get back to us without band name. Oh, okay.

[00:12:47] Natalie McMillan: manager.

[00:12:55] Emma: We're inspired again by musicians. And so we just liked the look of like rock and

And from there, that's really where the experimentation came from. And yeah, and that aesthetic has just.

[00:13:26] Emma: I guess it's different for every client, but with you, like, you know, our style, we've known you for a while now.

And we always like to, cause we dress the way that we dress every single day, like head to toe, we love like it's our favorite thing to do. So we always implement our personal style, but it has to like morph with. That individual as well, because we never want someone to feel like they're not

And at this point, people come to us knowing what we do. Yeah. So it's not a case of, oh, if you're not into how we dress, we weren't dressed you. But a lot of people want us to pet them in that direction because that's the aesthetic they're going for. So in the beginning, when we start with. And they're a bit tentative about that.

Sometimes it's just a slower process and then eventually we're just in sync and yeah, but with Korean

[00:14:21] Corinne Foxx: I still like. Just push me. Cause my instinct is to like go say for play it safe.

And then sometimes you guys will text me and be like, we really love this one though. Kerryn. And like, you know, cause my gut I've never felt super comfortable in my personal style. So my gut is to always play it safe. And you guys like just always give me that extra push to like go for the thing that maybe is a little bit more like you were saying edgy or, you know, I have more fun with it, have more fun with it, but I think a lot of people struggle and kind of the basis of this episode, they struggle with their personal style and not knowing like what it is or how to find it.

And what advice would you give for someone who's still trying to figure out what their personal style

[00:15:13] Emma: taking inspiration from other people too.

It's like, there's nothing like David Bowie, even like talked about how he would look at his audience. Oh, I'm inspired by all the people coming to see me. And then I'm going to put my looks together or my stylist put them together. There's like no shame in like being inspired by other people and like taking that and making it your own, you know?

Cause that's kind of like what art is. It's like always kind

[00:15:40] Corinne Foxx: Yeah. Yeah. So many things that trend come back, I feel like it's like what? Every 20, 30 years or something like that.

[00:15:52] Emma: bored.

So they're like, all right,

[00:15:56] Natalie McMillan: As you guys were saying about how, you know, you can see people and take inspiration and kind of make it your own, how do you decipher between making that your style or having that be a trend. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

[00:16:19] Corinne Foxx: word I'm thinking.

[00:16:30] Dani: thing we've kind of always said that for us style doesn't necessarily have to mean fashion in the way that it's like to be stylish.

You don't have to wearing like the highest price item, money stylist style is an aesthetic is a gift actually that we have to be able to put stuff together. So we try and distinguish quite often between fashion like high fashion and style, obviously. I fashionable and we leveled that, but you don't need that.

You can work with a small budget to really put looks together just based on like UI and what you're interested in in that moment. And like Emma said, fads definitely come and go, but more classic pieces, like great out of wag. Great denim. Great. T-shirts great jackets, that kind of thing. We'll always kind of stay in style.

Well,

Really great, great fitting pair of jeans, solid pair of leather boots. That's just kind of like a pair of converse. Yeah.

[00:18:20] Natalie McMillan: Um, good pants,

[00:18:25] Dani: Yeah, the fence.

on

you

[00:18:39] Emma: I look good on her. I didn't want to take him back.

Because if you kind of have like a reference point, then you can sort of build from there. You know what I mean?

Out of control or like the, you know, the color or whatever it is. But if you were working with like really classic pieces, like blue, black, white, gray, like gray, you know, that color palette, they all work together and you can kind of pair things back and forth and you can take five pieces and create 25 different looks out of that.

If you're moving things around, um,

[00:19:36] Emma: Definitely for a leather jacket. I didn't invest in like a good leather jacket and a hundred percent. You should follow leather shoes, shoes, always good investment.

Yeah, bags, it's more accessories. It's like kind of that really like important piece in the look that will

elevate

[00:19:52] Emma: white tee, it's like, you're going to go. Whether it's like a hundred dollars or 20 bucks, you're going to go through that white tee pretty quickly.

So I wouldn't spend

but then also with denim it's like, you can get Levi's are not that crazy expensive, you know? Like other companies are like making great denim, like great shapes. It's really the shape. That's important for your

If you haven't tailored to your body, it looks expensive. And I need

[00:20:31] Corinne Foxx: tailored, like small. So I could see like you having things that are too long or too big,

[00:20:39] Dani: like my hands, like that changes everything that changes every piece

Wow. That it's her body perfectly, you know, like

[00:21:00] Dani: leather jacket. Yeah. Like a biker jacket.

Yeah. I just got this one from Maritsa. I don't know if you can see it's the Sunday best one. Oh yeah. Fitted, I should show you guys how it fits. Cause it's a little

[00:21:24] Corinne Foxx: They tailor, they

When you guys were growing up, this is kind of like a fun question. Did you guys have any like style icons,

[00:21:36] Natalie McMillan: like in particular.

And so I was like, wow. So yeah, all throughout like that hasn't gone

[00:21:57] Corinne Foxx: I feel like you guys have similar style. Yeah, I get, yeah,

I know, I like my instinct. I think my uniform is band tees and like a lot of jewelry. And if I can wear a denim short, I am in a denim short. Yeah. You love it. Then I love a denim shirt.

[00:22:27] Corinne Foxx: And, and speaking, we were talking about trends earlier. I was curious if there's any current trends right now that you guys are not fans of, or any trends that in your past you look back and you're like, I wish I'd never done that.

Like the

[00:22:45] Dani: I don't know how we got so lucky to get them back. Um, well for us, I think trends are going not really into, which we did get into over quarantine was sweats. Sweat sets love that for the hat. I don't really want to come to work and I don't really want to go do my professional life and take pride in our clothes

So I think that's something we personally.

[00:23:11] Emma: studio pants. And the

[00:23:28] Emma: doing it just us

We're like, it's more of a mental distinction between I'm at work.

[00:23:41] Corinne Foxx: I feel like I wear my sweats out, but you look

[00:23:45] Corinne Foxx: them. Thank you for saying that. All the pinks,

Yeah. It's

[00:23:57] Natalie McMillan: the one you were wearing on the hike? Yeah. That was cute.

Yeah. Hey, okay. Well, thank you so much for gifting us with your advice on style. And I know this is gonna be so helpful for our listeners because we got so many people that wrote in and wanted this episode. So thank you so much. Yeah, for sure. We will have you on, we have a thousand more questions for you all.

I use a fast. Okay. We love you and have a great rest of your day.

[00:24:46] Corinne Foxx: I love them. And they came on. I know, I wish everybody could see them. Well, they can on the Instagram this week, we'll post a little clip of them. And also we'll tag them in our stories. If you guys want to see them, they're so super cute. And they are like, oh, fashionable dress, like little rock

Like.

[00:25:13] Natalie McMillan: I, I guess,

[00:25:30] Natalie McMillan: love, share, dial icon queen transcends time.

I feel like you're going to make a really good real this week for share. Oh my God. You know, I will, I have to think of it. I always think of it in a random time. Oh,

[00:25:47] Natalie McMillan: I am a rich man. I am a rich man. I love, I am a rich man. I also love when there's this interview she did with Oprah and she's like, I am really nice.

I am really sweet, but like, if you fuck with me, I will drag you across the floor. And I'm like, that's very me energy. And I love that. I love that. What is her sign? I don't

[00:26:08] Natalie McMillan: wonder, should we Google it? I w she's gotta be a fire sign share. Also. I love that she she's like very open about what she's done to her face, but she looks

May 20th, Gemini.

[00:26:32] Corinne Foxx: hell? Why can't I find this hurts? No, I'm on her birth chart. I just need to know what her sign

[00:26:43] Corinne Foxx: Maybe you'll find it quicker than me at the Zodiac Morris.

She's a tourist. Very luxurious. Yeah. They like luxury, luxury thing. Okay. So let's circle back on the wine would is, oh gosh, the montage montage PA. Goofy

[00:27:07] Corinne Foxx: It's white wine drinking. One to miss stylish share. I am a rich man. It's like actually like it.

Yeah.

[00:27:21] Corinne Foxx: seven and a half. 7.75 a share and its share we'll link into the show notes. If you guys want to pick up a bottle,

all right. This is part of the episode where we play a little wrap-up game and today we're playing. Would you rather, rather, I think it's been a

[00:27:47] Corinne Foxx: I think so mine is right on point with what we talked about at the top of the episode, which is time. Oh, okay. So Natalie, would you rather always be 20 minutes late for important events or always be two hours early to everything else?

Oh,

[00:28:10] Corinne Foxx: everything then 20 minutes late to an important thing. Yeah.

[00:28:23] Corinne Foxx: it important? I'm talking your wedding day.

I'm talking. We asked your wedding needs like your day, like your wedding day.

[00:28:37] Corinne Foxx: I guess if I'm

[00:28:45] Corinne Foxx: watch an episode of something. Honestly, probably binge watch series.

[00:28:53] Corinne Foxx: started it and I haven't gotten into the rhythm of it. Oh

[00:29:02] Corinne Foxx: waiting. That's your fate? Two hours early. To everything. That's

Okay. So my would you rather is a fashion base. Okay. Is on the trend of our actual topic. So would you rather on a red carpet? Oh God wear pants covered in dog hair or a shirt that is stained all over.

Pants covered in dog hair.

[00:29:42] Corinne Foxx: you to this conclusion? I was leaning towards the stain shirt, cause I thought, well, maybe you can make that cool. Yeah. Like, like make it look like tie, dye pattern. But I think the question has to be that people know it's a stain, right? Fashionable. And I think stains on your shirt are so embarrassing.

I'm like, wait, do I have a marina? I think, I don't know why. So I think it'd be less embarrassed. People love dogs. That's true. That's true. I'd be like, oh, well I have a dog too. Yeah. But like if I had like catch up on my. It's just like,

Like we all do that.

[00:30:21] Natalie McMillan: yeah. It's like, just turn your shirt inside out. Just like a petty part. It's it? Yeah. Poor thing. Yeah.

[00:30:31] Natalie McMillan: was looking through like fashion something and there was something about cat hair and then I just thought of it.

[00:30:59] Natalie McMillan: Instagram.

So you can just, I can

[00:31:06] Natalie McMillan: Yeah, a

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