Leila Yavari, Stylebop’s fashion director, is a woman constantly on the move.

Regularly traveling between Milan, Paris, and New York City to develop and flesh out her dead-on buys for one of the biggest names in luxury e-commerce. She has always lived on the tips of her toes, moving from Iran as a child to France, then Los Angeles, and now London, which she calls home. Her family left Iran in 1979, settling first in Bordeaux and later in Los Angeles.

 In a place like Tehran, Iran, dress obviously has more overtly political implications, so you develop subtle modes of self-expression: It’s a type of coded language.