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The Most Stylish Women You Know Probably Wear the Same Thing Every Day

Here is what the fashion industry would like you to believe: that style requires constant reinvention. That creativity expresses itself through variety. That wearing the same thing twice is — at best — a concession to convenience, and at worst, a signal that you have given up.

Here is what is actually true: the personal uniform is the logical endpoint of developing taste.

Fran Lebowitz at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party, wearing her signature blazer and white shirt
Fran Lebowitz at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. The blazer, the white shirt, the attitude — unchanged since 1978.Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0.

Fran Lebowitz has worn essentially the same outfit since 1978. Georgia O’Keeffe wore black and white into her nineties. Carolina Herrera has worn a crisp white shirt for more than forty years. Rei Kawakubo, who studied ethics before she made clothes, has never stopped dressing in black.

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