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Nara Smith is on a roll. Promoting her debut cookbook, Homemade, the content creator (and chef!) has been running around New York City this week, sitting down with Ashley Graham for a live conversation at 92NY on Monday night and stopping by The Drew Barrymore Show on Tuesday. And of course, she’s had a fabulous (on-theme) wardrobe to go with her busy schedule.
For her Monday night event, Smith stepped out wearing a sculptural strapless gown by emerging designer Ilya Migmoon, featuring cone bras, exaggerated hips, a corset back, and intricate boning throughout. Yellow and purple flowers were stitched to the skirt, which was styled by Thomas Christos Kikis with shiny black Louboutins.
The next day, the model merged fashion and food with a straight-off-the-runway Schiaparelli look—the highlight of which was a vegetable jacket. Designed by creative director Daniel Roseberry for the Spring 2027 collection, the statement piece was crafted with strong shoulders and embroidered with whimsical carrots, onions, and corn. (As if that weren’t enough, it was further adorned with veggie buttons.) It paired with matching veggie earrings and veggie heels, along with a chocolate-brown silk skirt that grounded the fanciful charm.
Next up, Smith leaned into apron dressing with a rare 1990 Mugler flower-petal minidress. Completely lined in bright orange, the white piece was made for versatility—its flouncy layered skirt able to sit flat or curl upwards as if in bloom. Smith left hers down, and paired the creamsicle fit with orange pumps to match.
Speaking on Homemade, she told Harper’s Bazaar: “I’ve always wanted to be a writer—which is funny—of some sort. And I always thought it would be fiction first, but then I naturally slipped into this whole social-media cooking realm, which is so fun to me. And a lot of my comments years ago, when everything kicked off, were “We need the recipes! Where are the recipes? She’s going to make a cookbook from scratch!” All these comments that I saw kind of prompted me to start writing it. Then I found a bigger purpose in writing it, which is having a part of my upbringing through my grandma live on in this book with everything else that is sprinkled in. So it truly stemmed from people wanting it and me opening my mind to that possibility, because I never really thought that I would be in a position to do that. So I’m very grateful for that.”