Miranda Kerr’s Grandma and Lily Aldridge Are Her Biggest Style Inspirations

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You know you’ve got good style when the outfits you wear walking through the airport are breathlessly covered in the media. Such is the case with Miranda Kerr, who doesn’t wear track pants and hoodies when she’s got an eight-hour flight ahead of her but rather skinny jeans, ballet flats, and maybe a threadbare t-shirt or loose silk button-down. We admire that dedication, so we made a beeline for the Australian model (who’s on the cover of Vogue Japan’s 15th anniversary issue in full geisha garb), when we recently saw her at the magazine’s launch in Paris.

Yahoo Style: You’re known for being so pulled-together all of the time that there are sections of blogs and magazines devoted to your airport style. Are there people in your family who inspire the way you dress?

Miranda Kerr: My grandmother, ever since I was a little girl. She’s so effortlessly stylish. She will have something simple on, but the way that she carries herself with confidence, it’s not about how much it cost or if it’s a designer label, it’s the way her clothes fit her. She has them tailor-made, so it’s about the fit and it’s about the confidence.

YS: What about friends—do you have friends who, when you see what they’re wearing, you always ask, “Where did you get that?!”

MK: Lily Aldridge. She’s a good friend of mine and we will often wear the same thing. And we’re like, “Oh my god, I can’t believe you’re wearing that!” It’s fun to have someone like that, who’s a friend and we like similar things but sometimes she’ll have something different on and I’ll be like, Oh that’s cool! And it goes both ways.

YS: By the way, who makes your suede fringe jacket? Is it Saint Laurent?

MK: A friend of mine made this. Do you know the twins [stylists] Chloe and Mary Lou Bartoli? They made this jacket. I have a Saint Laurent one in black, too. But listen, my shirt today is Céline but these pants are H&M.

YS: But wait, is there a trick to wearing a jacket draped over your shoulders so you don’t look like you’re trying too hard?

MK: It needs to be the right fit—you can’t feel too constrained, you have to feel free. I feel more comfortable with this one just on my shoulders. Maybe it’s a French thing.