A snapshot of her personal moodboard? “She loves Afrofuturism, sci-fi, a very specific era of hip-hop and R&B in the early ’00s, glamour, the ’30s, corsetry, Victoriana,” continues Nazario. “Anok will put on a corset over a tank top with a pair of cut-off denim jeans and Vivienne Westwood sex heels, or a weird, cropped leather jacket with super futuristic shoulders over tracksuit pants. It’s always a bit of this and a bit of that. She never likes it to be so overtly referenced that you know exactly what it is.”
“I actually have notes for what I wanted my style to be for 2025,” Yai says, opening up the Notes app on her phone. “Effortlessly high effort; extremely feminine, but sexy; vampire; sheer fabrics; vintage. A girl who’s undeniably cool, dark and mysterious. She has her life together, but she’ll still take tequila shots and fight men in the club.”
Sofi Adams
Sofi Adams
The look that Yai wore on tonight’s carpet was essentially the above in a nutshell: an exquisite white and cream corseted custom Dilara Findikoğlu gown decorated with swathes of lace, crushed velvet and satin, with a dramatic train.
“Both Anok and I love to champion emerging talent–and it’s really important to both of us, not only to champion people who feel fresh, but also for her to do things that she hasn’t done before, and to wear things that perhaps aren’t expected,” Nazario says. “We’re both big fans of Dilara, how she celebrates the female form, and her particular brand of deconstructed glamour. Since it’s such a big night for Anok, we wanted to do something that felt iconic–that wasn’t too cool and that we knew would stand the test of time.”
“Whenever you see a Dilara piece, you know that it’s her work right away,” Yai concurs. “I love the romance of her pieces—there’s this raw, edgy darkness to it that I’ve been obsessed with. And when Carlos and I decided that we wanted to work with a London designer, hers was the first name that we shouted out!”
