Street Smart

Yoon Ahn nibbles on a vanilla cracker in her Tokyo studio as we catch up over Zoom. Sporting a blue bomber jacket, gold hoops and a bleached-blonde high ponytail, she pinches the foil packaging with her signature long, pointed gel nails. “I’m really sorry but I just need some sugar to perk me up in the afternoon,” she says.

I know that there’s nothing new under the sun—a tee is a tee, gold necklaces have existed for centuries or even before the Roman era—but how