LOS ANGELES — “What is a typical day like for you?”
“Typical day,” Anwar Carrots repeated slowly into his phone over FaceTime. “Honestly, my typical day changed because I had a baby… Every day it’s literally take care of my child. By 12:00 I come to my office, which I’m at now, have a meeting. Actually, I have one right now, ‘cause I’m doing an interview while I’m with you. It’s kind of sick.”
He smiled. Indeed, it kind of is.
The young designer and entrepreneur — he legally changed his surname from Washington to his high school nickname, Carrots (given for being a redhead) — who helms his contemporary streetwear label Carrots by Anwar Carrots received the call from a marketing agency for Chevy earlier that morning about doing the call for the automaker. He’s now sitting at a work table on the upper floor of the Arlington Heights studio, called the Bird Nest, that he shares with his wife going through a round of prompts to say his name, where he lives and to recite the first few lines from Donny and Marie Osmond’s “A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Rock ‘N’ Roll.” Three takes later, the caller is pleased
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