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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Morwenna Ferrier

‘It’s silent but does the heavy lifting’: the soft power of the white shirt

Victoria Beckham in a diamond tennis bracelet and an open-collar white shirt.
Victoria Beckham promotes her latest Netflix documentary in a diamond tennis bracelet and an open-collar white shirt. Photograph: Netflix

Victoria Beckham has positioned herself as a pop star, mother, perfumier, TikToker and fashion designer. But whatever job next month’s Netflix documentary focuses on – details are scant, but it’s thought the early October series will end at her Paris catwalk show – she will always be scrutinised over how she looks. How to temper that? Wear a plain white shirt.

The documentary poster released this week shows Beckham wearing a diamond tennis bracelet, open-collar white shirt – and nothing else. Last week, the Princess of Wales appeared in public at the Natural History Museum, also in a plain white shirt. Earlier this month, the Duchess of Sussex launched her Netflix series in a white shirt (one of seven in fact), and when Taylor Swift recently announced her new album she did so wearing a white shirt. Laura Dern wore hers twice at the Venice film festival, and the woman with the most enviable wardrobe in fashion – Sarah Jessica Parker – chose a billowing version to promote her role as Booker prize judge.

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