Gown, Balenciaga. Earrings, Jennifer Behr. Necklace, Erickson Beamon. Sandals, Malone Souliers x Tabitha Simmons. Nara Aziza Smith is still a fantasy. Even as she’s Zooming from New York for our interview, all the hallmarks of the videos she makes for her 10 million-plus TikTok followers are apparent. She’s still in her hotel bed for our early-morning chat. Rather than designer fashion, the uniform she typically wears to prepare late-night kimchi jjigae (“So easy to make,” she relays, before launching into a recipe most would never dare to replicate), she’s wrapped in a plush white robe. The signs of her doting model husband, Lucky Blue Smith, are visible: She’s logged into his Zoom account for the call, and his name dangles like a locket on the side of the screen. Off TikTok, Smith’s voice is like meringue: the airy ASMR touch she employs in her videos is hardened into something solid, if not just as sweet.