Adwoa Aboah Makes Jeans Her Uniform After Becoming a Mother
Model Adwoa Aboah told an Australian lifestyle magazine, on a recent trip to the country, how motherhood changed her style. She named jeans as a wardrobe essential, vintage Diesel denim from Japan as her current pair, and low-rise cuts as the only kind she wears.
Model Adwoa Aboah makes jeans the backbone of her wardrobe, she said during a recent trip to Australia, where she also described how becoming a mother changed the way she dresses.
Aboah calls her style “put together in a mad way”. She said she likes outfits that do not make sense, avoids fitting into one box, and leans into color and comfort.
Motherhood and confidence
Her big fashion moment came after having a child, Aboah said. Dressing a new body has been interesting, she said, but she has never felt more confident or attractive.
She now trusts her gut. She knows what looks best on her, and she said she wasted a lot of time worrying before.
Vintage finds and denim
The oldest items in her wardrobe are a 1920s brocade jacket and a fragile sequin flapper dress. She also owns Ossie Clark dresses from the 1960s, Alaïa pieces from the 1980s and Galliano pieces from the 1990s.
Her newest addition is a pair of purple Chloé jeans, as she is into colored denim. She also bought everything she could from Dario Vitale's only collection for Versace.
Jeans and a cute top, she said, are unbeatable for a first date. She wore a pair of vintage Diesel jeans she found in Japan for the interview, and named a great pair of jeans as one of three wardrobe essentials.
The other two are a well-cut vintage button-down shirt, in which she likes Charvet, YSL and Hermès, and a good belt. High-waisted jeans are the one thing she says she would never wear: the lower the better.
Travel, red carpet and everyday looks
On a plane she wears a tracksuit, a giant scarf in the style of Lenny Kravitz and long compression socks. For the red carpet she prefers what she calls undressed glamour that feels unpretentious, as if she threw something on and ran out the door.
On a working day she wears a uniform of jeans, a vintage band tee, a good jacket and sunglasses. On weekends it is trousers and a Charvet shirt.
Icons, wish list and mistakes
Her favorite designers are Phoebe Philo and Miuccia Prada. At the top of her wish list are the embellished floral skirt from Prada's recent spring-summer show and a pair of Prada thong shoes.
Her fashion icons are Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and Solange Knowles. Aboah said Knowles is confident and sexy, but her version of sexy is nuanced, not basic.
Her favorite fragrance is “Rain” by Uni. Her most-worn shoes are leopard-print slippers from Anderson & Sheppard and Phoebe Philo ballet flats, and she mixes antique and Sophie Bille Brahe earrings with older Solange Azagury-Partridge pieces.
Her biggest fashion mistake, she said, is getting proportions wrong and going overboard on bagginess. She added that even the best-dressed people make mistakes because they take risks.
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