New York City Style Guide
New York is a city where cultures, styles, and nationalities mix together. This primary source of the brightest cultural phenomena has always been the center of gravity for people who want a little more out of life than everyone else. Looking at different parts of the city, you can easily trace how their inhabitants look different. How do districts affect the wardrobe of people and what is common in the appearance of local people? Wonderzine creative director Sonia Batovrina, who considers New York as her second home, told why fashion people in neighboring neighborhoods can look different and how they can be distinguished.
New York
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Manhattan areas
Manhattan
Brooklyn neighborhoods
Crooklyn
Queens areas
Queens
MANHATTEN
Lower East Side:
Party People and Pseudo-Hippies
Lower East Side - a place with a huge number of restaurants, cafes and bars. People here walk the streets to "look at others and show themselves." This is an area where teenagers hang out and have fun: here you can see the mixing of almost all youth cultures. But if you try to characterize the inhabitants of this place in one word, the best definition is hippies with a trust fund. Often it is a girl who looks like a careless artist, but in reality living at the expense of her parents. Her uniform is a vintage T-shirt, simple shorts (or high waist trousers) and men's-style boots. Hair is often disheveled, and almost no makeup.
Chinatown:
Mods and artists
Obviously, quite a lot of Chinese live in Chinatown, but here you will also meet young art curators and simply coolly dressed guys. This is not Williamsburg, where every second resident is a self-proclaimed (and not always worthy) artist. Chinatown is more strange, progressive and conceptual. You will understand what I mean if you look at how they look: this is a mix of ravers and hip-hopers of the 1990s. Bright colors, platform shoes, hair painted in the wildest colors, flashy prints, plastic and lycra. The brands Hood by Air, Been Trill and Pyrex Vision are honored here. As in fact, in other areas of the Lower East Side, there is a lot in common between mods.
West Village:
Intelligentsia
The West Village is a lot like Europe. Small streets and boutiques, friendly atmosphere and this feeling of the neighborhood community when you know a guy who works in every cafe in the area. Relaxed chic - perhaps this can be described as the appearance of local. These are high quality clothes, probably very expensive, but not screaming by the brand. Basically it is a classic: well-fitting trousers or a classic skirt, simple shirts, loafers and small bags. Men dress virtually the same, except that shirts sometimes change to polo, and under the arm carry a fresh newspaper.
Meatpacking:
Art lovers
In this area you can see many galleries, concept stores and boutiques of large brands. At the same time, people here prefer black and simple silhouettes, such conceptual minimalism. The boys wear black suits, the girls wear dresses with sporting elements.
Chelsea:
gay and neo-gothic lovers
Chelsea is close to Meatpacking, so there are also many galleries and shops. But what the district is particularly famous for is the large LGBT community. That is why here you will not only meet people from art, but also machos dressed in sports and fashion. These are tanned, tanned guys in black, preferably Rick Owens. You will recognize them by massive high-top sneakers, sweatpants and tight-fitting shirts. Such courageous and feminine at the same time.
Soho:
Models and mods
People come to Soho mainly for shopping: here at one intersection you can see Opening Ceremony, American Apparel and the flagship boutique Alexander Wang. Layout and make-up girls in feminine clothes, many of them are stylish and clearly versed in fashion. They follow trends and look like heroes of a street-style. There are a lot of models running to the castings (as most agencies are located in the area) in simple tops and tight-fitting trousers, with tails and in ballet shoes. Guys look well-groomed and stylish, their style varies from dandy to what is now called "heriteydzh."
Garment:
Business woman
Here are the majority of showrooms designers and school Parsons. So the area is filled with fashion people who rush to work, meetings or lunches. Women look neat and commercially fashionable: mostly girls in leather jackets, simple shirts and Alexander Wang's best-selling shoes. Men wear classic suits.
Harlem:
ASAP Rocky and followers
The Harlem style has been shaped by a wave of artists and musicians, coming from here: for example, A $ AP Rocky. This is the so-called high urban fashion. It is easy to interfere with streetwear - T-shirts and caps Supreme - with accessories of fashion brands, Hermès or Versace. They are able to combine the vulgar brunettes with the total bow of the young New York brand Shaun Samson. These are guys who come up with hip-hop style anew.
Brooklyn
Dumbo:
Young creatives
People in Dumbo are like people in Williamsburg, but these guys are older, they are not influenced by street cultures so much. Most of the people here are young workers in creative industries working in new offices and spaces opened in the area. Dumbo guys can be dressed in relaxed and comfortable clothes, but it is appropriate to look at business meetings.
Williamsburg:
typical hipsters
If you watch Girls, then you know what people look like in Williamsburg. Girls dress everyday, but a little strange, like vintage clothes. They also wear those things that they do themselves, which gives their images some kind of homely unique feeling. The guys - rough heridej-bow. Beards and tattoos still dominate here.
Greenpoint:
Families of creatives
Greenpoint is a place where employees of creative industries from Dumbo live with their whole families. Consider here young stylish mothers drink lattes in small cozy coffee houses. They are dressed concisely and comfortably.
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Astoria Queens:
like in williamsburg
This is the place where people leave Brooklyn because it’s cheaper to rent an apartment, so Queens, the most boring sleeping area in New York, is becoming fashionable. People look almost the same as in Williamsburg, they are anxious to make the Queens landscape more interesting, and open up concept stores and cafes in the neighborhood.
