The Specific Shirt Brand Fashion Insiders Are Obsessed With

When I think about the great uniform dressers – the late Diane Keaton , Fran Lebowitz, Patti Smith – there are a couple of common threads. Keeping things simple, for one. Tailoring, for another. And the crisp cotton shirt is also a recurring motif among this well-dressed cohort. My preoccupation with this approach – combined with an unhealthy fixation on the 2006 film Marie Antoinette – is what originally led me to Sofia Coppola ’s collection of Charvet shirts. I learned that Coppola sticks to a strict uniform of these shirts when she’s directing – presumably to free her mind to focus on the artistic portrayal of girlhood at hand. I found myself seduced by the Charvet shirt: the ultimate staple for those with a reverence for quality basics and a disregard for price tags. Read More