Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly Talk Clothes That at Dolce & Gabbana’s Milan After-Party

So when musicians perform at fashion shows it can be tricky. Because the performer is used to being the center of attention and the audience is there for the collection. But you walked today and then complemented the rest of the show with the performance—which even better, while it was played to a backing track, was sung and played by you live.

Baker: Thank you. I felt a lot of pressure. Everything I did was live, because I’ve watched a lot of awards shows where other acts have a guitar in the band but it isn’t live, and I’m just like ‘what is happening?’

Congratulations on your engagement, which has become a huge mega-story. Did you anticipate that?

Megan Fox: [To Baker] Are you aware of it? I don’t really look at social media or anything, so I don’t know.

But it came out on social media, right?

Fox: Yeah.

Baker: We released it to control the narrative. As opposed to someone just catching a weird cell phone picture of a ring on our hand and being like, whoa! But yeah, I didn’t expect it. I just recorded it on my cell phone. And it wasn’t like we had photographers or anything. It was just like me setting my phone against a cup.

Well, congratulations: may I please see your engagement ring? [Fox shows me her sparkler] Nice! I read in Vogue that you commissioned Stephen Webster: can you give us the lowdown?

Baker: It’s a thoroughbred Colombian emerald, with no treatment. It was just carved into the teardrop, straight out of the mine. And the diamond was directly from Stephen. The concept is that the ring can come apart to make two rings. When it’s together, it’s held in place by a magnet. So you see how it snaps together? And then it forms an obscure heart. And you see this right here? The bands are actually thorns. So if she tries to take it off, it hurts…

That’s very nice..

Baker: Love is pain!

There will be blood. So off the engagement but sticking with you two—and staying fashion-y— since you got together have you affected each other’s sense of style?

Fox: Mine has definitely changed. Before it wasn’t something I was focused on or thought about. Because as an actress I had been classified or put in the category of being a sex symbol. And publicists come in and they bring in a stylist and it’s all about dressing more seriously, so that the world will take you more seriously as an actor. But they weren’t dressing me the way in which I liked to express myself. So I kind of gave up on fashion. I was like, I don’t fucking care, whatever you put me in because I’m not going to like it anyway.