“I don’t necessarily like being on trend,” said Melanie Kieback, a 30-year-old influencer. What was more important to her when it came to clothes, she added, was something many prioritize: comfort.
“As a woman, especially, like, the body’s changing throughout the month,” she said. “One week I’m feeling like tight pants that make me feel long and tall, and then sometimes I’m just going to wear sweatpants.”
“I’m really into everything knit right now,” she added about her style tastes. “I’m making a really long, skinny, striped scarf.”
On the Sunday in late October when we met, she was on her way to the Glossier store in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. She was visiting New York from Berlin, where she lives, and was dressed in an eclectic mix of patterns — plaid scarf, striped shirt, leopard pants — along with a chocolaty suede coat she had inherited from her mother, and an old pony hair bag that had started to shed.
“It’s slowly falling off,” she said of the material. “That’s the thing with, like, vintage pony hair things. At some point, it just says goodbye.”
Simbarashe Cha is a Times photographer and visual columnist documenting style and fashion around the world.
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