Model Zaina Miuccia Is a Style Star in the Making—And So Is Her Equally Groovy Mom

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Model Zaina Miuccia Is a Style Star in the Making—And So Is Her Equally Groovy Mom

<cite class="credit">Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia</cite>
Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia
<cite class="credit">Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia</cite>
Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia
<cite class="credit">Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia</cite>
Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia
<cite class="credit">Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia</cite>
Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia
<cite class="credit">Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia</cite>
Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia
<cite class="credit">Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia</cite>
Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia
<cite class="credit">Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia</cite>
Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia
<cite class="credit">Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia</cite>
Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia
<cite class="credit">Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia</cite>
Photo: Courtesy of Zaina Miuccia

Model Zaina Miuccia has a thing for wearing corsets from Vivienne Westwood, a historically versed provocateur who has been shaking things up since the 1970s. Her mother Salamatu Gbajabiamila has a thing for DHL tees from Vetements, the brainchild of Demna Gvasalia, who has been shaking things up since 2013. Conventional wisdom would make you think that mom should be wearing the legendary label and daughter in the punky, spunky newcomer, but let’s be honest: Conventional wisdom is deeply boring, especially when it comes to clothes, and especially—especially—when it comes to some preordained idea as to what’s appropriate to wear given one’s age.

But yay, this is 2018, so let’s hear it for Gbajabiamila celebrating her birthday in oodles of neon-orange tulle from Molly Goddard, while Miuccia has been known to work the likes of a denim blouson, demure blue button-through sundress, and gray Frye boots and dub it “big Mormon energy.” If your mother doesn’t believe in rule-breaking so much as never seeing the rules in the first place, then that attitude will inevitably rub off. Daughter certainly pays homage to mom—who, like her, lives between London and Lagos—through her personal style, saying, “I have always looked up to my mum and feel that we subconsciously influence each other. There’s a lot of long-term swaps of clothes that happen between us!”

Certainly, there’s a huge amount of narrative play going on with Miuccia’s terrific style, an inventive, spirited, mood-dependent, let’s-get-dressed-up approach to putting herself together. Just listen to her when asked to describe her look. “It varies: anything from mean Parisian stepmom in pearls to cowgirl on the prairie to leather daddy to Carrie Bradshaw—mostly Carrie Bradshaw,” she says, before adding with a laugh, “to Vivienne Westwood hooker. I can’t say this in Vogue, can I?” Yes, because you just did!

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