21 Days to Go: Kerry Washington’s 2012 Emmy Look – Kotur Copycat

Sep 25, 2012 | 30 Comments

Who else was watching the Emmys last night?  Total tradish to get together with friends, cook up an Italian feast, and talk during most of the ceremony describing which shows rule (my faves Homeland & Breaking Bad!), which shows don’t rule (I’m taking the 5th on that one!), and who was wearing it totally right!

I thought Zooey Deschanel looked stunning in Reem Acra…

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Love this Zooey!

…and Kat Dennings crimson J Mendel was insane.

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Stunning Kat Dennings c/o Getty Images

I totally loved Kerry Washington’s Vivienne Westwood dress too…

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Hello Kerry!!

…and was even more obsessed with her lizard Kotur clutch!

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Kerry Washington’s 2012 Emmy Look – Kotur Copycat

(Thanks to my gal AK who pointed it out on the carpet and knew I’d love!)  I just couldn’t have been more into that perfectly paired accessory, so I decided I’d get on the DIY train for this piece immediately!

I began with my Judith Lieber clutch, already in my collection.

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My Judith Lieber!

It had a similar pinkish/gold hue and would be just the base for this clutch remake!

I scored a little quartet of plastic lizards in the toy section of the drug store…

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Plastic Lizards!

…and used the orange one as my little “Liz Khalifa” – what Kerry actually called her lizard after a shout-out asking what to name it on Twitter!

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Kerry’s Twitter!

I grabbed my Krylon metallic paint pals, still in reach from my Mercura NYC sunglasses copycat last week (Refresher Here!), and got to spraying!

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My Krylon Friends!

I did a quick spray with Caramel Latte and then followed with Copper Metallic…

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Liz is getting a spray tan!!

…before letting my little guy dry!  He’s so cute!!

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Drying in the Sun

I don’t want to permanently affix Liz to my clutch, so I’m going the Velcro route!  However, use E6000, Gorilla Glue, or Aleene’s Turbo Tacky Glue which will help anything stick longer than a day!

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Velcro Times!

I snipped little pieces and attached to the bottom of the lizard and directly onto the outside of the clutch.  Finished product???  BAM!!

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My After Clutch!

I love my clutch!  It’s totally channeling Kerry’s Kotur version!

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Kotur’s Clutch!

She had the perfect hand accessory…

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Hand Candy!!

…and now, so do I!

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Time to hit the red carpet!

In all · Copy Cat
  • sandra

    i so want this…..

  • Natchez

    A cute, fun bag!

  • Dina Bennett

    Fabulous! Love Love Love it.
    I am looking forward to your book and was wondering if you were going to be touring and doing book signing??? It would be so cool if you did and then “we” could wear our redo’s and copycats when we come to see you to get our book signed!

    • Kat

      Love this idea!! I’m in!!

    • http://www.facebook.com/tollyfaye Tolly Bockbrader

      Love that idea too! come to Ohio–everyone else does!

  • Laura

    Please don’t advocate the use of animal skins and fur, I love this blog and you are so creative and awesome. Help us stop using animals and go faux!!! I know you can do it! I’d rather go naked than wear fur (or snake skin!

  • diane2809

    Really cute!!!!

  • Boatgirl

    Clever embellishment idea to make an expensive red carpet look accessible to anyone. I’m off to raid the my children’s staff of plastic reptiles and grab the metallic spray paint left over from a recent light fixture face lift project!!

    • newdressaday

      Do it! It’ll be fun to use any plastic animal too!

  • http://foryourtastebudsonly.blogspot.com/ Roxanne

    Nice lizard! So easy but so classy at the same time!

  • Sarah_H.

    Loove it! I was wondering where yo would get your lizard because all I could think of was beading one…Spray paint is better.

  • Laura Whitman

    That is so fun! Love it. :)

    xoxo,
    Laura

  • cschells

    I totally thought you were doing the re-do in your car at first! Very slow on the uptake today… Cute, though!

    • Lainie

      Oh good, I wasn’t the only one ;)

  • Suvikki from Finland

    Perfection!

  • http://www.shanniloves.blogspot.com/ ShanniLoves…

    ha! I thought “what the hell is she outta her mind spray painting that lizard in her car!” then I realized it was a page out of a magazine. doh! Cute clutch!!

    • Ginia Magers

      I thought the same thing! Love the bag!

      • Kat

        Me too! I thought, girl what are you doing in the car spray painting, I hope you have a window open! LOL!!!

        • newdressaday

          That is hilarious! Spray painting in my car? I pulled out a few magazine pages so I could havea paint party in my concrete backyard :)

          • Kim Wareham

            Oopsie … You mean I don’t have to do it in the car? ;)

  • Judy B

    Very cute! I love how resourceful and prepared you are! And QUICK–if it were me, I’d think, “Oh, yeah, I’ll have to do that someday . . . ” and then continue sitting on my ass . ;-)

    • newdressaday

      Ha! When I saw it Sunday night, I knew I’d be looking for those lizards on Monday!

  • http://twitter.com/jodywallace Jody Wallace

    That is really cute :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/michelleblanz Michelle Blondin Blanz

    I actually really love this! I think I might just make my daughter a cute little critter embellished hair accessory! And do the purse thing for me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tollyfaye Tolly Bockbrader

    Very cute!

  • Christine inTexas

    That is so neat! I just love it!

  • Lovestosew

    Very cute!

  • Kim Wareham

    You are HILARIOUS! I love this DIY. Next time I go to Early Learning Centre, I’ll be perusing the plastic reptiles with intent. Thank you.

    • newdressaday

      Yes! Can’t wait to see what you snag :)

  • andrewcaveman

    Every time I see Zoe, I want to ask me phone if it’s raining.