I Can’t Stop Thinking About Jessie Buckley’s Perfect Chanel Shirt
To the untrained (or uninterested) eye, all white shirts may appear equal. But look beneath the crisp collars and starched cotton and there’s a whole world of construction, cuff length and proportion at play, sorting the wheat from the chaff: the Chanel X Charvet from the Charles Tyrwhitt. There’s the slim-fit estate agent approach, the sixth-form prefect look and, of course, the finance bro accused of insider trading, but the shirt I cannot stop thinking about is the one worn by Chanel’s latest poster girl and British Vogue cover star, Jessie Buckley.
Fresh(ish) off the spring/summer 2026 runway, Buckley’s oversized white shirt is a Matthieu Blazy brainchild – one I’ve been obsessing over ever since my feed was flooded with images of it, styled with a feathered skirt and two-tone pumps, at the Grand Palais back in October. It sent me down a Charvet wormhole, questioning industry insiders about why this £500-plus simple shirt has fashion girlies and A-listers in such a firm chokehold.
Since the jubilant conclusion of Paris Fashion Week, which left us all humming “Rhythm Is A Dancer” and dreaming of arms full of dry cleaning, the monogrammed Chanel shirt has become something of a Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants item on the Hollywood circuit. Nicole Kidman paired it with jeans for a relaxed take on revenge dressing; Tilda Swinton wore a salmon-pink iteration; and now Jessie Buckley has had her turn, proving this is the understated basic of the moment.
Jessie’s head-to-toe Chanel get up is just another major fashion moment in her rapidly expanding style repertoire. Taking a brief pause from making audiences sob through ugly tears (see: Hamnet), the actress has been popping up all over the place in ice-blue custom Dior gowns and all-leather Khaite. Quickly becoming the actress of the moment, her latest look proves that sometimes a simple white shirt is all you need to transcend your BBC talent show origins and reach greatness.