Leila Kashanipour is a jewelry designer and content material creator. We first met over 15 years in the past, when she was launching her personal jewelry line, LeiVanKash. Today, she consults for jewelry manufacturers and creates small, one-off capsule collections, leveraging her rising neighborhood of followers to drive gross sales. When she isn’t designing, she’s internet hosting occasions for manufacturers like Chanel and Harvey Nichols, bringing her vibrant neighborhood of ladies collectively to have fun new model launches. While the phrase influencer is never used anymore, it nonetheless conveys the company that girls like Leila possess. After all, they’ll see what their followers are shopping for in actual time—and, most significantly, they’ll drive gross sales.
Leila’s love of equipment has all the time been obvious. Whether she’s styling an informal on a regular basis look or dressing up for an occasion, she effortlessly combines bohemian influences (she is of Iranian heritage) with color, embellishment, and wealthy textures like suede and leather-based—all completed along with her signature polish.
Even when styling the only of items, comparable to a black costume, Leila all the time provides her personal spin—maybe a belt, jewelry, a hat, or a pair of embellished sandals. She doesn’t observe developments; as an alternative, she creates seems to be she loves, utilizing items in her wardrobe that deliver her pleasure.
By day, she’s typically seen in a pair of Mother denims, a tailor-made jacket, and an Hermès scarf. Her go-to manufacturers embody Liberowe, Saint Laurent, and Veronica Beard, and he or she has a eager eye for recognizing nice excessive avenue finds too—selecting up items from Zara and Sézane. What units her aside from different content material creators is her love of jewelry—layering tremendous items with strands of beads collected on her travels. By evening, Leila would possibly put on a costume styled with a turban and assertion earrings, or a superbly tailor-made swimsuit paired along with her favorite heels and a standout bag.
Her viewers appreciates her eye for element, and her ardour for design means they belief her to solely share gadgets she would genuinely purchase herself. Everything Leila wears is rigorously thought-about, and when making any massive purchases, she all the time sleeps on it—ensuring it’s one thing she really loves.
In this episode of Anatomy of a WardrobeI met Leila on the Charlotte Street Hotelthe place she talked me by her wardrobe, how she builds her outfits, the items she will be able to’t depart the home with out, and her prime suggestions for dressing this autumn.
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