DOWN TO EARTH: The scent of humus hit the nostrils well before guests stepped onto Miu Miu’s moss-carpeted runway, the natural odor a shock to the senses on the final day of a marathon fashion month. It was easy to imagine that guests including Joey King, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Lola Tung and Tyla might almost have been tempted to kick off their stylish footwear and wriggle their toes in the grass.
Walking unshod through greenery is a love it or hate it thing, and Nara Smith is in the former category. The model and content creator said she finds the sensation of being barefoot in nature both liberating and grounding. “But I don’t like when I get stabbed in the foot by something, I have sensitive feet,” she admitted.
It was not just fashion inspiration she was taking at the show, but home decoration tips, too. “I’m taking interior design inspo right now, because I’m redoing my house,” said Smith, who posted a TikTok video a couple of weeks ago of her renovated house ruined by water damage after a snowstorm.
It seems it will be out with the calming white walls and in with color, if the vintage-inspired floral wall coverings pasted throughout Miu Miu’s cavernous Palais d’Iena venue were anything to go by. Their effect was amplified by floor-to-ceiling mirrors that dwarfed onlookers and a diverse cast of models on the runway including Gillian Anderson, Sateen Besson, Sofia Isella and Donkey Kid.
Smith summed up the style: “Grandma chic,” she said. If only everyone had a grannie as chic as Miuccia Prada.