Navigating life within the public eye isn’t a straightforward feat, however for Sofia Richie Grainge, having a well-known father helped ease the transition.

“I realized find out how to take care of individuals understanding who you’re from my dad,” Richie Grainge, 24, advised City & Nation for the quilt of their September problem.

She praised Lionel Richie as her “function mannequin,” noting his fixed willingness to fulfill and have interaction with followers as a mannequin she’s eager to take after.

“He handles it with such grace. He embraces everybody who comes as much as him. He’s appreciative, he’s grateful,” she shared of the American Idol decide.

“He’s taught me to by no means have that ‘Oh God, not as we speak’ angle. He’s one other stage of megastar, and my complete life I’ve watched him. I’ve by no means seen him say no to an image. I’ve by no means seen him be impolite to anybody who walks as much as him on the road.” 

Although it took her a while to settle into her personal identification in her household — she had not simply her father’s spectacular profession, however her older sister, Nicole Richie, who got here to fame alongside Paris Hilton within the early 2000s, to check to — she at all times had her dad’s persistence for example.

“I spent a variety of time simply looking for my place on the earth,” she advised the outlet. “I feel everybody desires to be like their mother and father once they’re rising up, and I admired my dad a lot, and that drove me down a music path for a second. Nevertheless it didn’t really feel proper for me.”

She continued, “After which everybody advised me, ‘You ought to be an actor!’ I attempted that for a interval, however that wasn’t me both. I didn’t have the expertise, and I didn’t need to be a type of child celebrities that received the function as a result of my dad is who he’s.” 

Finally, she realized she didn’t want to evolve to both of the containers she had tried to emulate.

“So I used to be like, ‘You already know what? I do know I’m not lower out for this. Let me simply be myself.’”

Within the months since her lavish wedding ceremony within the South of France to music govt Elliot Grainge, Richie Grainge has cemented her place as a foremost determine within the on-line world of style and sweetness. 

Between launching a TikTok account that featured a plethora of behind-the-scenes content material from her wedding ceremony weekend and sustaining that platform as she settled into newlywed life, sharing her magnificence suggestions and methods, Richie Grainge has change into this yr’s greatest fashion icon. 

In July, she spent 24 hours with Vogue for a video section, and mirrored on how she’s grown into herself in recent times. 

“It’s been attention-grabbing being watched as a younger child,” she defined whereas searching for new summer time attire for her journey to Palm Springs throughout the video. “Folks have seen my evolution of simply totally different phases I used to be in in life.”

“I’m actually pleased with the place I’m now as a result of I am expressing myself by way of my clothes,” Richie Grainge added. “I’m not influenced by anybody. I simply actually really feel me.”

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She’s even begun to tease the launch of her personal style line, which she advised Who What Put on was impressed partly by her older sister’s personal style endeavors. 

“The aesthetic could be very my vibe,” she stated of the road, which doesn’t have a reputation but.

“I made certain, attempting on each single pattern, that it embodies the aesthetic that I have been sporting. It’s 100% me.”