C&C California Company, founded in 2003, pretty much started off the trend for simple T-shirts.
About 50 years ago, the likes of James Dean and Marlon Brando first started wearing basically an underwear garment as outerwear, turning the humble T-shirt, previously only worn by lowly manual laborers, into an iconic item of utilitarian chic.
Even Gap, the high street mainstay of simple T-shirts had arrived since the 1970s.
Audrey Hepburn's idea of style was simple T-shirts, boat necked tops and little black dresses. Givenchy once designed a whole collection with Audrey in her mind.
Hepburn never wore hot pants with thigh boots and a trucker cap or a cowboy hat with oversized, mirrored Aviators. Hence, stylistically speaking, she was the very contrast of everything Victoria Beckham stands for.
Victoria's 'fashion secrets' has been cultured from the changeable wardrobe and not via an instinctive feel for fashion and looks. It was rather through an intensive, frequent and protracted, trial-and-error purchasing programme.
She was never a style icon, but a wealthy shopper and this extensive shopping had furnished her with an authority. Thus her talents lie more in the field of exhaustive, unfocussed stock than informed taste or smartness.
Victoria is a simple-minded and wide-eyed fashion fan who believes that designers are gifted with divine inspiration.
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