SHIRT STORIES: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A CHARVET DEVOTEE

by wei koh

“Charvet is the greatest artist in creation!”— James McNeill Whistler French shirt maker Charvet’s legend is immense, large and uncontainable. It runs like an overflowing river crossing epochs, insinuated into the greatest works of literature, and infused into the sartorial vocabularies of the world’s best-dressed men. At one time or another, Charvet has dressed Gary Cooper, Édouard Manet, W. Somerset Maugham, John F. Kennedy, the Duke of Windsor — the list goes on. And while allegiances to tailors are asserted within national boundaries — it’s hard to imagine Prince Michael of Kent rocking that Rubinacci — the universal affection for Charvet knows no bounds. Indeed, if Gatsby had been less inclined to nouveau riche exhibitionism, he would have replaced Turnbull & Asser for the place that artist Jean Cocteau called, “where…

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The Rake (Digital) - 1 Issue, February-March 2009 - Issue 2

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