THE WHITE SHIRT
- Oct 7, 2018
- 3 min read
So Today we are going to talk about the white shirt!
The white shirt occupies an uncontested place in fashion. It is a literal blank slate for designers, who regularly tinker with it. Like the trench coat, the white shirt evolved from menswear, which may explain why a woman in her lover’s button-down persists as an erotic trope. The men’s version became more visible in the late 1700s, when the modern suit, with its expanse of shirt-front, was born. And when Regency dandies ushered in the cult of high-maintenance hygiene in the early 1800s, a pristine white shirt—no easy feat in pre-detergent days—became a status symbol. That association between immaculate cotton and status endures. This icon crossed over into women’s wardrobes in the late 19th century as a companion to the newly fashionable tailor-made suit. “The tailored white shirt is a classic because of its masculine elegance,” said Georgia Lazzaro, the designer behind the label Protagonist.
While its manly antecedents are clear, the women’s white shirt delivers sophistication in a distinctly feminine way.
The white shirt has been another pinnacle element in my inspiration, the shirt has always been a design element for men in suits, as each decade went by and the infusion of menswear into women swear became more prominent, although not so acceptable in some cases, the white shirt became another break through in women’s fashion.
It has became a staple, in every women's wardrobe as well as a continuous staple piece created in many ways on the runway. The go to that is easy to wear, and can be a diverse item in any women's wardrobe, to pair with jeans and sneakers, or with a skirt and heels. To the right is a video that shows Chriselle lim that is a you-tuber demonstrating the white shirt in her wardrobe and her take on the classic "WHITE SHIRT"
There are many designers that incorporate the shirt in their collection, for me it is amazing how designers can interpret the shirt within thier Inspiring, such a classic can be made, coloured, and styled so differently. which is truly inspiring.
OFF WHITE:
Off white interoperates the white shirt in different silhouettes as well as styling the shirt in a more sporty way. There was a big win for women in sports tonight at Off-White. Eight elite athletes—gold medal goddesses of our time—walked alongside the more familiar stars of fashion, Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid. Everyone’s name was flashed on an electronic leaderboard, with their nationalities beside them, as at a games competition, and the runway was painted like a combination of running track and concrete street. Virgil Abloh’s Off-White collection, called Track and Field, which absolved the designer of the accusation of emitting yet another generic athleisure-for-the-sake-of-it collection into the atmosphere. This one had a firm basis in real sport. “Track and field is where you compete. There’s a foundation to it; it’s not just clothes for clothes’ sake,” said Abloh.
SAINT LAURENT:
If there’s one which thing ’60s, ’70s and ’80s fashion stood for in France—and symbolised all over the globe—it was the glamorisation of sexual liberation. Thanks to Yves Saint Laurent, and to Helmut Newton’s erotic projections via his work in French Vogue, women were emboldened to claim their sexual power over men through the epitome of sophisticated dressing. The book of masculine-feminine style, tailoring, chiffon, flashed legs in black stockings was written then. Anthony Vaccarello is in charge of carrying that flame now—and you cannot fault him for being true to himself in his new role as creative director at Saint Laurent. Vaccarello does short, short, short, and tailoring. Always has.
Yves Saint Laurent merged his famous fashion outbreak "le smoking" and his desire to empower women with the infusion of the Western-influenced Le Smoking tuxedos, rich velvet band-boy jackets, corset-waisted pants, tiny dresses, and of course, shorts: shorts in black or gold leather, shorts in the fab form of sequinned playsuits with exaggerated glam shoulders. Merging shirts in oversized forms, tucked into skirts and different fabric compositions to adhere to a certain inspiration, YSL knows how to pull of a shirt and how also to make it something out of this world.
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