So the good news is that the hero piece of the new season is in your wardrobe already. The bad news is that you are not going to believe me when I say you should be wearing it to work or out to dinner. The check shirt – last seen hanging around the coffee machine in the sixth-form common room or shopping for drill bits in B&Q – is having a fashion moment.
Kate Moss made only one catwalk appearance last year, and she wore a check shirt. At the Bottega Veneta spring/summer 2023 show at Milan fashion week, out sauntered Mossy in a shirt of sky blue crosshatched with sea green, the cuffs casually, unevenly flipped back, low-slung blue jeans and a white ribbed vest. With her centre-parted hair and little gold hoop earrings, the look evoked her iconic 1990s Calvin Klein campaign era.
