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"It&amp;#39;s true! Actress Katie Cassidy has joined fellow industry insiders such as Ashley Madekwe and launched her very own fashion blog, Tomboy KC. I interviewed the Arrow star at a Rebecca Minkoff for Tiny Prints luncheon to get the scoop.\nPinterestFacebookGlamour: So you started a blog! Tell me about it.\nKatie Cassidy: I did. It&amp;#39;s called Tomboy KC, my initials, and it&amp;#39;s basically for the modern-day women. We compete for the same jobs as men, do what men do, and I believe if we want to dress like they do, we can. And it&amp;#39;s all about just being confident and expressing yourself. Our slogan at Tomboy KC is, &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s not just a look, it&amp;#39;s a lifestyle.&amp;quot; Growing up, I was very much into video games and reptiles, hunting rolly-pollies\u2026very much a boy, playing tether ball. And then there was another side of me that was trying on my mom&amp;#39;s clothes, and doing my friend&amp;#39;s hair and makeup, and cutting my friend&amp;#39;s hair, even! I remember in high school my girlfriends would have me cut their hair, and thinking about it, it sounds crazy, but I actually didn&amp;#39;t do too bad of a job. And having said that I actually ombre&amp;#39;d my own hair.\nGlamour: You ombre&amp;#39;d your own hair?\nKC: Yes, I did.\nGlamour: Are you into DIY-ing your own hair and makeup?\nKC: I&amp;#39;m big into being a girl, but part of my life is very traditionally &amp;quot;manly.&amp;quot; People would say, in the sense that I&amp;#39;m very driven, I&amp;#39;m very independent. And my dressing can reflect that. I love button-downs, I love blazers, I love trousers or slacks. But then I mix it up. It&amp;#39;s mixing highs and lows. Mix it with a pair of pumps, or mix your button-down with your leather-pleated skirt.\nGlamour What other sort of trends are you loving? Your ring stacking is amazing, and I plan on taking a picture of that.\nKC: I&amp;#39;m obsessed with gold, obviously. Most of this is Jacquie Aiche.\nGlamour: Are you wearing a body chain by Jacquie?\nKC: Yes! I live in this body chain. This is the point I tell my girlfriend about women feeling confident. Wear what you want to wear, express yourself. There&amp;#39;s no right or wrong. Take this body chain. No one sees it except for me and my boyfriend, but I have it on 100 percent of the time. It makes me feel good, and it makes me feel sexy, and it&amp;#39;s about finding an inner-confidence, and wearing what you want to wear. We&amp;#39;re equal to men. That&amp;#39;s what&amp;#39;s sexy. Confidence is sexy.\nPinterestFacebookGlamour: Now that you&amp;#39;ve gotten the site off the ground where would you like to see it go?\nKC: I&amp;#39;ve actually started working with a sketch artist because at some point I would like to design my own line under the same umbrella.\nGlamour: What would you envision the line looking like?\nKC: I have an obsession with what people would call quote-unquote ugly colors, but to me they&amp;#39;re brilliant. Like I love mustard yellow, I love rustic orange, I love dirty brown, forest green&amp;#8212;very earthy tones, I love. I love things that look beat-up, but I like wearing them with maybe a pair of pumps or shoes that are fabulous. I like things to look accidentally brilliant. Like you have a bunch of shit on the floor and you threw it on and you ran out of the house and somehow it comes together.\nGlamour: Who are your favorite designers?\nKC: Alexander Wang. I&amp;#39;m so obsessed with him. Alexander Wang, if you ever read this, I&amp;#39;m your biggest fan. I don&amp;#39;t think I&amp;#39;ve ever been starstuck in my life, but if I met him I think I&amp;#39;d be, like, &amp;quot;um, ah.&amp;quot; I think he&amp;#39;s brilliant and his style is so, modern, clean-cut, and sexy but has that twist of, you know, dude.\nPinterestFacebookGlamour: Are there any trends you wouldn&amp;#39;t try? Is there anything you wouldn&amp;#39;t come near?\nKC: I understand the crop top. I wouldn&amp;#39;t do it. But that&amp;#39;s just my own body image. But you know, I did do one for Katherine Houghton&amp;#39;s show. She&amp;#39;s great. Super talented. She made me this two-piece&amp;#8212;a high-waisted skirt and a crop top&amp;#8212;but it was a little baggy, so only a teeny-tiny sliver [of skin] showed, so that was cool.\nGlamour: Are there any characters you&amp;#39;ve played whose wardrobes you&amp;#39;d love to steal?\nKC: Well, Juliet from *Gossip Girl *, obviously. Great wardrobe. The Melrose Place reboot had a pretty good wardrobe&amp;#8212;not my personal style, but still a great wardrobe. Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and the City, who I did not play, obviously, but I&amp;#39;m obsessed with. That&amp;#39;s one show&amp;#39;s wardrobe I would love to steal.\nAre you excited to read Katie Cassidy&amp;#39;s blog? Whose TV wardrobe would you love to steal? Discuss!\nPhotos: Courtesy of Tomboy KC"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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