The taste-making founder of Sincerely, Tommy-Brooklyn’s cult-favorite fashion-and-lifestyle boutique-moved into her Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone a few months before the lockdown. (A native of the area, she counts both her mother, Lisa, and grandmother Doreen as neighbors.) By design, the place was already deeply tranquil-Avent-deLeon and her husband, Nate, favored a muted color story inspired by the desert-but what it was missing, she soon determined, was a sense of play. Photographed by Stefan Ruiz, Vogue, April 2021 Kai Avent-deLeon, New York “These were just actually my most comfortable clothes during lockdown!”- L.R.Īvent-deLeon in a Christopher John Rogers dress, $1,995. “I’m now known on Instagram for wearing a lot of Pleats Please by Issey Miyake.” But, she assures, it isn’t only for fashion’s sake. “In Lagos, we wear these caftans called boubous, but I told myself, actually we’re going to wear real clothes every day no boubous,” she says. All the while, she’s made it a point to get dressed each day. A recent edition is dedicated to the Black photography collective the Kamoinge Workshop. “I felt like I hadn’t been engaging my brain as much as I would’ve liked to,” she says. She is also a freelance art and photography curator, and she recently launched a digital newsletter, SHI. The interiors are, of course, good taste personified, owing to the knowing eye of her mother, Reni-but while Folawiyo jokes that she wouldn’t get a vote on any of the decor, her parents do seek out her opinion for art purchases and placements. In more normal times in her home city of Lagos, Folawiyo helps run the restaurant, Nok, at her mother’s concept shop, Alára-a Sir David Adjaye–designed sanctuary of stylish things that somehow feels more like a design museum-though at the moment, Folawiyo describes both Alára and its restaurant as existing in a liminal “half-open, half-closed situation.” Because of the pandemic-related restrictions on business operations and the Nigerian government–mandated curfew launched in response to recent protests against police brutality, Folawiyo has been mostly at home with her parents. For now, though, you can find her in her bedroom. With clothes, I get so indecisive that I just throw everything on and end up layering.” Her latest song, “Last Day on Earth,” reflects on all the things she could have done had she known she would spend nearly a year homebound. “My room is very cluttered, quite messy,” she says, “and that says a lot about how I think-I just have tons of things happening in my brain all the time. She’s created, in a nook above her bed, a mood board–like gallery wall pinned with pictures of Tom Hanks and Robert De Niro movie posters elsewhere in the room, she doodled directly on the wall with pastels and paints. “It’s seen me go through the worst and best times of my life.” It’s also where the 20-year-old singer-who rose to fame on social media-has been holed up, writing new music and pursuing her many other creative outlets. “I feel like no one knows me as well as my bedroom,” says Philippines-born, London-raised singer-songwriter Beatrice Laus, better known as Beabadoobee (a Finstagram handle that stuck as a stage name). Photographed by Soren Harrison, Vogue, April 2021 Beabadoobee, London Beabadoobee wears a Moschino Couture top, $555 saksfifthavenue.com.
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