Romy Mars and Miles Jebbia: The Next Gen Power Couple We Deserve
Supreme son, Chanel daughter.
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There are few people using social media as well as Romy Mars in 2025. Her TikTok feed is the stuff of legend, from her faux Architectural Digest room tour to the repeated use of her mom, Sofia Coppola, as a prop for content. This spring, she released a sassy pop single, “A-Lister” that’s taken over TikTok; the lyrics poke fun at fame, as do most of her posts addressing her privilege, including her first viral video which claimed she got grounded for chartering a helicopter to meet a camp friend for dinner. She was anointed as an Apple Girl by Charli xcx at the “brat” tour in May, and cemented her birthright status as a Chanel girl at the French house’s Couture show on Tuesday. Romy posts her collection of quilted bags alongside Sonny Angels and Elf Bars — Sofia couldn’t have written a character better if she tried. (If you’d like more evidence of her comedic genius, check her out on the first season of “English Teacher.”)
As all of the above suggests, I follow along with Romy’s adventures very closely on both TikTok and Instagram — I find any peek inside her fantastical world fascinating. You can imagine my surprise when, after a handful of “soft launch”-style posts, she tagged her (apparent) boyfriend, Miles Jebbia, in her Stories this week. If that name rings a bell to you, it’s because he’s royalty in the worlds of both fashion and skateboarding: His dad is James Jebbia, founder of Supreme. Perhaps following in his father’s design and entrepreneurial footsteps, Miles is currently enrolled at Central Saint Martins in London. Now THIS is the Gen Z fashion power couple we need!
This pairing hits a particular sweet spot if you remember that Sofia’s first husband was also an icon in the skate community: Spike Jonze, a filmmaker who got his start taking photos for skate magazines and shooting skate videos, and who co-founded the brand Girl Skateboards. Their union yielded a number of creative collaborations, most memorably the X-Girl runway show Sofia and Spike produced in 1994 on the street in Soho. They held it guerrilla style during New York Fashion Week, following their friend Marc Jacobs’s show, which was staged a few blocks away. X-girl co-founders Kim Gordon and Daisy von Furth tapped the duo to help bring their vision to life; the “sexy tomboy” collection included denim, tees, and dresses inspired by skaters, ravers, and indie rockers, with downtown fixtures like Chloë Sevigny and Padma Lakshmi cast as models.
Will Romy, too, have a skating royalty starter husband and keep the family legacy alive? Will the couple collaborate on a generation-defining fashion project that will live on via mood boards for decades to come? Only time will tell, but I’m rooting for them.
