The eye of the beholder
Anyone who tries to pot the look and lifestyle of Nina Yashar into neat container will discover there is none. The term ‘dealer’ doesn’t come close to describing her Milan-based business of selling and showing at the risky end of beautiful objects, ones not yet blipping on collectors’ radars. And her style is too clever a collage of esteemed but odd elements to be considered ‘eclectic’ — a genre homogenised into stereotype.
No, a whole new taxonomy is needed for the madonna of Milan design; one that nails her auteur ability to order pieces with an impressive provenance into suggestive settings, and her want to wear clothing that is so counter to prevailing trend
