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Yuka Mannami lives in an East Village loft with exactly one pair of jeans in her closet. “To me, denim is something you wear to a casting, or something to wear when you leave the house,” she says. “For example, I’ll wear denim to a picnic, or recently, I wore jeans to go bouldering.” (Given the Japanese model’s penchant for floor-length black skirts and gothic Lolita lace dresses, it’s perhaps not surprising that denim would count as athleisure.)
“My favorite type of jeans have a lot of pockets—this is a pocket,” she says, flipping one open on her Balenciaga jeans, “and this is also a pocket. I can carry my phone and my keys and lipstick, and when it’s hot, there’s a zipper here and they can become shorts!” So practical and chic, no wonder you only need one.
Director: Matvey Fiks
DP: Mika Altskan
Fashion Editors: Anny Choi, Kirby Marzec
Assistant Camera: Christian Cruz
Sound: Boris Krichevsky
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Makeup: Ingeborg
Video Editor: Dylan Edwards
Color: Carlos Flores
Sound Design: Nikolay Antonov
Music: CSISTERNA
Yuka Mannami in a Marc Jacobs daisy knit sweater, $275, marcjacobs.com; Balenciaga convertible cargo jeans, $1,790, barneys.com
