“We’ve both inspired each other,” said Alba Swalheim, 44, referring to how she and her husband, Evan Swalheim, 43, can make choosing clothes a joint activity. “With his picks and my picks, we sort of decide to come to come together as a couple,” she added, noting that, if they dress alike, it is “not necessarily planned.”
Both were wearing gridded patterns on the Tuesday in mid-November when I saw them taking pictures outside the entrance of a mall in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. She had on a gingham dress, the lines of which complemented those of his plaid tweed coat. They were visiting Japan from Los Angeles, where the couple lives. He is an actuary for a health care company and she, a construction project manager.
Telling me about his coat, he noted that his wife had bought it for him. “She’s kind of the stylist in this relationship,” he said. He was being modest, she said: “He’s actually more of a fashion person than I am.”
Simbarashe Cha is a Times photographer and visual columnist documenting style and fashion around the world.
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