Can casually dressed people stand out in a crowd? Johnny Sequoyah and Mitchell Hoog proved that the answer can be yes — though it helped that Ms. Sequoyah, in her baseball jersey and Bermuda jorts, and Mr. Hoog, in his loose chocolaty layers, exuded a magnetic charisma as they walked through the busy streets of Hong Kong on a Friday in May.
The couple, I soon learned, was familiar with capturing attention: Ms. Sequoyah, 22, and Mr. Hoog, 26, are both actors. He was filming a project in Hong Kong, and she had come to visit him. “I feel like this entire trip has just kind of been walking around, finding holes in the wall, eating there,” Ms. Sequoyah said.
Mr. Hoog, who said he had bought the brown sweater draped around his shoulders at a vintage store in Beijing, described his style as fluid. “Sometimes it’s full Western influence, from growing up in Colorado,” he said, adding that he is also drawn to Asian designers like Yohji Yamamoto of Japan and Uma Wang of China.
Ms. Sequoyah’s fashion tastes were also shaped by places she has lived, she said, specifically Los Angeles and Boise, Idaho. She prefers buying clothes secondhand, she added, and has a sort of sixth sense when shopping. “I swear, some pieces I feel like speak to me, like, Oh, that’s a Johnny thing.”
Simbarashe Cha is a Times photographer and visual columnist documenting style and fashion around the world.
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