How to Shop Like Mena Suvari

Mena Suvari is an actor, model and fashion designer who found fame when she co-starred in the movie "American Beauty." Today, Mena Suvari is also known for her shopping prowess, which earns her the admiration of shopping lovers around the world.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

1. Make shopping a passion of yours that you use as a substitute, like Mena Suvari does, for more harmful pastimes like drinking and smoking. Since Suvari quit smoking, in fact, she said she's been shopping devotedly and, because the shopping sprees help keep her away from cigarettes, guiltlessly.
2. Go out shopping in style when the mood suits you by throwing on a pair of tight, black-leather, hip-hugging pants similar to the ones Mena Suvari wore when she went shopping in front of paparazzi cameras in Los Angeles. Bloomingdale's and similar department stores carry Sutton Studio Exclusive black-leather stretch pants that, with a pair of silver pointy shoes, can get you dressed up like the American beauty for a day of shopping.
3. Head to the shopping hot spots of Los Angeles where Mena Suvari is frequently caught indulging in some high-level spending. Start out at the ultra-trendy Robertson Boulevard, where Maxfield Bleu offers high-end duds at discount prices and then find the cutting edge of fashion at Curve's.
4. Follow Mena Suvari's world-conscious shopping by buying from her personally designed scarf line, Echo. A portion of proceeds from Suvari's scarves goes to the National Resource Defense Council, so shop for the Echo scarves to help the world as you buy.
5. Hit the stores alone, as Mena often does, so you can shop the way you feel. Mena Suvari has been caught a couple times doing her shopping in a somewhat funky mood, as she was in when she was photographed at the Diesel store, so shopping alone may be just what the fashion doctor ordered to cure some blues.