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FEATURE
MIAMI VICE
Inside the crowning of Vixen Angel Amia Miley
FEATURE | By Dan Miller
new Vixen Angel of the Month.
G
GREG LANSKY WANTS TO PUT HIS STAR’S MIND AT EASE.
Lansky gives the signal and welcomes Miley to “the Vixen
The show starts in five minutes and the Chief
Creative Officer of Vixen would like Amia Miley to
SHE GETS IT.
Angel family” as his crew erupts in applause. She wipes
away tears as she opens her gifts—custom black Christian
know exactly what’s going to happen when they go
live on Instagram at 12:30 to announce her as the
SHE’S RIGHT
Louboutin red-bottomed shoes, a Tiffany brilliant-cut
diamond necklace, and two sets of bespoke Vixen-branded
“There’s nothing to worry about,” Lansky tells
ON EVERY
bras and panties.
“I’m shaking,” Miley says.
the 26-year-old performer, who is sitting on the gold
couch in the middle of his Studio City headquarters
SINGLE TREND.
She reads from a handwritten letter of congratulations
from Lansky before they share a Champagne toast.
wearing white Vixen lingerie under a pink silk
Miley embodies everything the Vixen brand represents,
bathrobe. “We’re going to make you shine. We’ll get
SHE IS VERY
Lansky tells me. “She gets it,” he says. “She’s right on every
you talking, get you your gifts and then we’ll head
single trend. She is very cool for our audience. She’s got a
out to the photo shoot.”
COOL FOR OUR
big following, not just a random following.
Miley made her adult industry debut in 2009
“She’s the Kim Kardashian of adult in my opinion. Yeah,
when she was 18, doing more than 150 movies in
the years that followed in between appearing in
AUDIENCE.
people hate on Kim Kardashian but she’s a marketing genius.
In 20 years they will study Kim Kardashian in marketing
music videos, starting three businesses and getting
her real estate license.
SHE’S GOT
schools—mark my words. She’s changed the world in the
way we know it. This girl is the adult version of that.
She shot two scenes for Vixen this summer—
the first of which was released in July—and today
A BIG
“The best word I can describe her—sure, she’s beautiful—
is that she’s current. And that’s what our brands are about—
joins an elite roster of women who have received
the Vixen Angel title that started with Kendra
Sunderland in August 2016.
Sunderland, who landed a contract as the first
FOLLOWING, NOT JUST A
we’re current. A lot of people come into the adult business
following trends and then you’re really late to the party. We
at Vixen, Tushy and Blacked, we always try to get ahead of
the curve.”
Vixen Angel of the Year in January, is co-hosting
the ceremony with Lansky on this first Saturday of
RANDOM
It’s an approach that has served Lansky & Co. well during
the past three years since he launched Blacked in May 2014,
August in what has become a monthly event that
attracts tens of thousands of viewers on Instagram.
FOLLOWING.
Tushy in June 2015 and Vixen in July 2016. Those three
studios, along with Lansky himself, have won a combined 31
Sporting a funky black-and-gold, vintage Versace
—GREG LANSKY
AVN Awards—a remarkable achievement for the 34-year-old
shirt from 1984, black jeans and black Yeezys,
native of Paris who broke into porn in 2005.
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