A snapshot of her private moodboard? “She loves Afrofuturism, sci-fi, a really particular period of hip-hop and R&B within the early ’00s, glamour, the ’30s, corsetry, Victoriana,” continues Nazario. “Anok will placed on a corset over a tank prime with a pair of cut-off denim denims and Vivienne Westwood intercourse heels, or a bizarre, cropped leather-based jacket with tremendous futuristic shoulders over tracksuit pants. It’s all the time a little bit of this and a little bit of that. She by no means likes it to be so overtly referenced that you realize precisely what it’s.”
“I even have notes for what I needed my model to be for 2025,” Yai says, opening up the Notes app on her cellphone. “Effortlessly excessive effort; extraordinarily female, however horny; vampire; sheer materials; classic. A woman who’s undeniably cool, darkish and mysterious. She has her life collectively, however she’ll nonetheless take tequila photographs and struggle males within the membership.”
Sofi Adams
Sofi Adams
The look that Yai wore on tonight’s carpet was primarily the above in a nutshell: an beautiful white and cream corseted customized Dilara Findikoğlu robe embellished with swathes of lace, crushed velvet and satin, with a dramatic prepare.
“Each Anok and I like to champion rising expertise–and it’s actually necessary to each of us, not solely to champion individuals who really feel contemporary, but additionally for her to do issues that she hasn’t accomplished earlier than, and to put on issues that maybe aren’t anticipated,” Nazario says. “We’re each huge followers of Dilara, how she celebrates the feminine type, and her explicit model of deconstructed glamour. Because it’s such an enormous night time for Anok, we needed to do one thing that felt iconic–that wasn’t too cool and that we knew would stand the check of time.”
“Everytime you see a Dilara piece, you realize that it’s her work immediately,” Yai concurs. “I like the romance of her items—there’s this uncooked, edgy darkness to it that I’ve been obsessive about. And when Carlos and I made a decision that we needed to work with a London designer, hers was the primary title that we shouted out!”
