The stylist has become enamored with the Instagram account’s merch.
Mel Ottenberg’s Summer Sunglasses are $34 and Made By @OldJewishMen
Welcome to Shopping With Vogue, a series in which we sift through a fashion lover’s favorite store. For this edition, we shop with creative director Mel Ottenberg a.k.a @melzy917 for sunglasses created by @oldjewishmen.
Call it an unlikely love story between a viral Instagram account and a high-powered fashion player. Aside from both being Jewish, the two entities could not be more different. In one corner, you have the crotchety, kvetching @oldjewishmen Instagram account. The feed is filled with famous types like Adam Sandler in fantastically bad-fitting basketball shorts and a perpetually unimpressed Larry David, along with a screenshot of a New York Post article about a 91-year-old lox slicer returning to Zabar’s, a zoomed-in image of a man’s unkempt eyebrows, and zillions of images of unknown balding men with postures so bent they look like life is physically weighing down on them. On the other hand, there is Mel Ottenberg, the handsome creative director of Interview and was, until 2019, Rihanna’s stylist. Despite their differences, they’re mutual fans. Ottenberg will comment on a slideshow of Jerry Seinfeld with “hot” or weigh in on a bagel rating. He also has worn an Old Jewish Men (OJM) tee—yes, the account sells merch—that reads “Ralph Lifshitz,” a spoof on designer Ralph Lauren’s logo and birth name. The affection is mutual. The founder of Old Jewish Men, Noah Rinsky, says of Ottenberg, “he clearly likes deli and dressing like an old man and is barrel-chested, just like me.”
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Liana Satenstein
