Locals, expatriates, workers, tourists: Spend two weeks walking as many streets as possible in Hong Kong, and a certain kind of rhythm starts to reveal itself. It’s the beat of different groups of people moving among each other at different speeds across its mainland and island neighborhoods.
Times Square, a mall on Hong Kong Island in the Causeway Bay area, was basically a runway for some of the city’s most fashionable. Young people in hipster attire and women in colorful patterned dresses were common sights in the Sham Shui Po district on the mainland. Locals and tourists alike said that few people really dressed well in Hong Kong. I found that the sentiment couldn’t be further from the truth.
Areas like Sheung Wan and Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island offer appealing backdrops for tourists taking selfies in luxury shoes and handbags. As does the M+ museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District on the mainland, outside of which is a promenade with a panoramic view. A street corner in Kennedy Town, a coastal island neighborhood, was also packed with tourists dressed their best. Many were waiting in a line to take photos at a picturesque spot in front of the ocean. In a way, I felt like an eager tourist as I ran around trying to photograph all of them.
Billy Kwok, Alastair Pike and Yan Zhao contributed translation.
Simbarashe Cha is a Times photographer and visual columnist documenting style and fashion around the world.
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