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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 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.