“I was trying to mix and match pieces that are very different,” Rachel Lu, 24, said about what she was wearing when I stopped her outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on a Saturday in mid-August. “And then I just played around with jewelry that I had. I kind of stacked it all on top of each other.”
She works for Bloomberg and said that her outfit of a bandanna, old graphic T-shirt and a long patterned skirt was “very much, like, a weekend-night look.”
“I look like I’m going to like a pirate gathering,” she added, jokingly. In fact, she was about to go on a date with her boyfriend.
A through line between the items she was wearing was the color red. As someone of Chinese descent, she tries to wear it often. “I usually have at least one piece of red on me at all times,” she said. “There are other colors in Chinese culture that bring you good luck, but for me, personally, red is the color that I latch on to.”
Simbarashe Cha is a Times photographer and visual columnist documenting style and fashion around the world.
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