Step Inside Fashionista Aimee Song’s LA Home

As a fashion entrepreneur and social media mogul, Aimee Song is no stranger to the limelight and the life of an influencer. Crafting her dream home in Los Angeles, Aimee knew exactly what she wanted to achieve with the interior.

“This was my dream neighbourhood, ever since I was little.” Aimee tells Architectural Digest in a recent interview. A historic neighbourhood in central Los Angeles known for its quiet streets and impressive houses caught the eye of Song and her family from a very young age.

“I grew up in Downtown L.A. and there really weren’t any safe places to walk around,” she recalls, “we’d drive over here during the holidays or even with our mom just to walk the dogs.” Fast forward a decade or two, a period working in interior architecture, an enviable fashion and influencing career, and six-plus million social media followers and here we find a nine-month pregnant Song, alongside longtime boyfriend, Jacopo Moschin, nesting in their memory-filled abode.

Like many, Song and Moschin ended 2019 with hopes for a bright new decade. “We got the house literally right before the pandemic,” the young multi-hyphenate says of the drawn out moving process. A space that had only housed one previous owner—an older couple looking to downsize from their family home. Song took this as a sign. “People don’t really flip or move in and out of this neighbourhood,” she reflects, “they stay.” But just like that, someone left, and a 1920s Spanish revival home nestled comfortably in a historic Los Angeles neighbourhood became theirs.

So with location and great bones checked off the list, space planning was next on the agenda. “Spanish style homes are great but they also tend to be very dark with lots of tiny rooms,” (eight, to be exact), “and few windows,” Song notes. And because crafting an open and inviting space was a top priority for the parents-to-be, breaking through walls was a prerequisite.

Like daughter… like father

Starting out the renovations alongside her father—this was the third home the duo had worked on together—Song tapped into her interior architecture background to modify the home in a way that would best tend to her and Moschin’s needs.

“We honestly went in blindly,” she jokes of her and her father’s approach to remodeling. “It was great. . . but then we sort of let my dad go,” she says with a laugh. Enter architect and designer Antonio Forteleoni and long-time friend of Moschin. The couple brought him in to help oversee the space planning, particularly for the primary bedroom and kitchen. But toward the tail end of the project, the interior architect was poached. “Kelly [Wearstler] and her husband came to see our house during construction and took him on the spot,” Song says admiringly of the architect, who until recently served as the design director at Kelly Wearstler.

After holding off on having a nursery for her first child, Song’s nesting phase kicked in. “We just want[ed] to redo everything.” Cue a den turned walk-in-closet and turned nursery. “I literally decided last week,” she says. And considering that the new mom’s water broke the morning after the photos for this feature were taken, it looks like everything was done just in time.