“I’m a colorful dresser,” Viv Chen, 31, said. “That is something intrinsic to my everyday style.” The luminescent neon skirt she was wearing on a Saturday in February was a vintage style from Issey Miyake. She called it one of her “holy grail pieces.”
The writer of a fashion newsletter, The Molehill, she lives in San Francisco. But our paths crossed in New York, where she had come to attend fashion week. “This is my first year I’m getting invitations,” she said.
She had paired her skirt, which she bought on the resale platform Vinted, with a shearling coat and a psychedelic Gucci bag from the label’s Tom Ford era. Her outfits at home aren’t often as bold, she said, explaining that fashion week called for attire “a bit dressier than my average.”
Simbarashe Cha is a Times photographer and visual columnist documenting style and fashion around the world.
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