“Comfortable comes first,” Su Yu said about her approach to getting dressed. It was evident in the cozy charcoal knitwear she was wearing while out with a friend in Manhattan’s financial district on a Tuesday in September.
A 26-year-old dermatologist from Shanghai on vacation in New York, she explained that convenience was another factor that guided her style choices. The blue cross-body bag peeking out from under her sweater, for instance: “Although it seems not very big, it can hold many things,” she said.
Perking up her ensemble were a jaunty cap and, perhaps even more charming, heeled loafers with shiny coins inserted in their leather cross straps — a detail that was easy to miss amid the camera flashes going off across the street, as V.I.P.s were arriving at a runway show hosted by Harlem’s Fashion Row at Cipriani Wall Street. “Wall Street is so famous,” she said.
Simbarashe Cha is a Times photographer and visual columnist documenting style and fashion around the world.
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