Keira Knightley is among one of those time travelers, with a face and aura of someone who came from another time, another époque, another century.
In her films, she has been effortlessly traveling from centuries to centuries, countries to countries, and cities to cities. By putting herself into a white shirt or chemise of 19th century English countryside or that of the cosmopolitan Paris in the early 20th century, Keira Knightley becomes Elizabeth or Colette, she is Elizabeth or Colette. When she walks down the screen and walks into her own life, Keira Knightley wears a different type of white shirt, simple, modern, and boyish, which fits her body as well as her nonchalant life style.
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No royal wardrobe in the world of our time is more filled with white shirts than that of Queen Letizia of Spain.
From a journalist of high profile in Spain to The Princess Asturias to The Queen of Spain, first commoner doing so in Spanish history, Letizia Ortiz has had an extraordinary life journey as a woman, and her white shirts have accompanied her on this journey. She has worn her share of classic white cotton shirts over the years, like her Hugo Boss Bashina cotton shirt, but after becoming royal, she seems leaving them mostly for family outings or tough trips, and prefers to wear soft silk white shirts, which she pairs with skirts and pants, always fitting, for her various royal engagements. Letizia is loyal to the way how she wears her white shirts, her favorite neckline is round neckline with pleats, and she can be seen wearing this neckline again and again, with some variations; and she is also loyal to her white shirt maker Hugo Boss, so many of her white shirts are from this German brand that Letizia could be the model for its white shirts. For someone who prefers silk white shirt than the traditional cotton white shirt, Queen Letizia is perhaps the best reference, even though not all her silk shirts are flattering on her, or on anybody. Talking about white shirt without talking about Katharine Hepburn, is like talking about black dress without talking about Audrey Hepburn.
Audrey Hepburn does not create black dress, but she is the symbol of black dress; Katharine Hepburn does not create white shirt, but she is the symbol of white shirt. Katharine Hepburn can wear the most feminine dresses and gowns and look feminine, but she chooses to wear pants, like Marlene Dietrich, and pairs them with white shirts. And for decades Katharine Hepburn wears white shirts after white shirts, all classic men style white shirts, in her films as well as in her own life, all paired with pants(apart from a few occasional dresses and skirts worn for her roles on screen), like the way how a man wears his white shirts. And she lives like a man, independently and selfishly and courageously, loving a married man without needing to know if he loves her and without needing him to leave his wife. A man’s soul living in a woman’s body, Katharine Hepburn is more than a style icon, more than an inspiration for all the white shirt based wardrobe minimalists. She is godmother of OWWWS(Origination of woman wearing white shirt). |
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