Everyone knows Becky Akinyode is the unofficial ambassador of Nordstrom.
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Becky Akinyode is the unofficial ambassador of Nordstrom. The New York fashion plate knows the department store, a relatively new institution in New York that opened in 2019, like the back of her hand. Today, the stylist—whose clients include Collina Strada and Nguyen—is taking me to the retail hub located at Columbus Circle to explore its offerings, specifically floor three, named SPACE, which carries some of our favorite local and smaller designers.
When I finally meet up with Akinyode at Nordstrom, I’m puttering around floor three, surrounded by browsing shoppers in black puffers and tourists in nice little beanies. They all look like the brands stocked here, Collina Strada and Vaquera, are far from their buttoned-up lives. But then Akinyode arrives, and her look throws my world off its axis: She is like a shining fashion beacon in a large sparkling blue Dries van Noten puffer coat that reminds me of a glittering Christmas ornament.
The whole experience for Akinyode is full circle: Nordstrom was her intro to fashion. The stylist grew up in Maryland, and the closest one was in Washington, DC. Though Akinyode wasn’t simply a child shopper tagging along with her well-heeled mother to the department store—she wasit. A sign for the Nordstrom Fashion Board, a now-defunct program geared towards teens to learn about fashion, caught her eye, and she bit.
As we browse a rack of Collina Strada, a label who she styles for, Akinyode tells me more about how fashion played a role in her childhood, noting that even from an early age, she loved the concept of creating a character and dressing for them. “I was obsessed with magazines. I would cut them up, and I would put all the images that I liked,” she says. “I liked so many different things, so when I dress, I think of different people I want to be.
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