“I’m not a minimal girl,” said Astrid Lonsdale, a 30-year-old content creator. “I think fashion needs to be more fun.”
A native of Scotland, she explained that her relationship with style has evolved since she left the country: She now lives in London, where she has been inspired by the variety of wardrobes. “You just feel a bit more free to wear what you want,” as she put it.
She favors clothes with exaggerated silhouettes, like the shoulder-padded sweater and flapped jeans she was wearing while shopping on a Thursday in March in the Shoreditch area of East London.
When she first put on the outfit, she thought it was boring. “But I guess you can’t really be boring with shoulder pads, can you?” she said. Her jeans were from Y/Project, the now-defunct French label known for clothes with innovative fabrications. “I miss Y/Project dearly,” she added.
Simbarashe Cha is a Times photographer and visual columnist documenting style and fashion around the world.
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