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Charvet is a French high-end bespoke and ready-to-wear shirtmaker from Paris, France, with a flagship store located at 28 Place Vendôme in Paris.
Founded in 1838, the company is probably the first and the oldest remaining shirtmaker. In relation to its bespoke level of service, Charvet's clients list has been compared to an "international fan base". Since the middle of the 19th century, the shirtmaker has been specialized in "royal haberdashery" and notable for its wide range of colours and patterns, which attracted artists. Since the 20th century, with the development of Fashion design, designers and Fashion journalists have become a significant customer group. Some other customers have developed such an interest in the brand that it has become a notable aspect of their personality.
According to the Financial times, "bespoke shirt maker Charvet has long been revered for the attention it provides its clients." The fact that the company does not communicate on its customers list has been considered as a sign of this level of service.
Warrant of Proveedor de la Real Casa granted in 1878.
Warrant of Proveedor de la Real Casa granted in 1913.
Warrant of Proveedor de la Real Casa granted in 1879.
Since he was Prince of Wales. Royal Warrant of Chemisier in Paris granted in 1869.
The shirtmaker achieved significant coverage in Irish media when it emerged that former TaoiseachCharles Haughey had misappropriated over $50,000 of state funds while in office to purchase Charvet shirts, and had them delivered via the diplomatic "black box" system, at a time when he was exhorting Irish citizens to "tighten their belts". This resulted in a surge of Irish visitors at the Paris store.According to the Boston Globe, The conspicuous Irish visitors to the Charvet shop "pose for photographs outside the venerable shop, and sometimes venture inside to gawk at the crystal chandeliers, the oak paneling, the Oriental rugs and the cuff links in bowls scattered around the shop. And they pose indelicate questions about their former prime minister".
Who once placed a single order of 86 dozen shirts.
Warrant granted in 1893.
The French writer and journalist, often referred to as BHL, is described as a "provocateur", a "showman", who "wears the mantle of polarizing intellectual quite happily along with made-to-measure clothing from French house Charvet". A journalist from the New York Times' T Magazine men’s fashion supplement wrote he "has no interest discussing the suavely unbuttoned garment that for his fans and his detractors alike has become synonymous with his name." Another journalist wrote: "That unbuttoned white shirt, by the way, is an important element of BHL’s TV and public images and it tells a lot about the man. If you tried it with your own shirt, the collar would sag. But BHL’s shirts are specially designed by the famous shirt-maker Charvet, with collars that withstand the unbuttoning and never disappear under his jacket".
"His shirts and waistcoasts were from Charvet, he told me. What interested him in Charvet was the sign of a certain world, of a certain elegance"
Asked by a reporter of Fashion Week Daily: "Do you have a uniform?". He answered: "Black cashmere sweater, Charvet shirt, Levi's, and Converse All Stars." "He has bought his dress shirts at Charvet in Paris for the last 15 years", wrote the New York Times in 2004.
Asked by a French journalist what is in dress closet, he answers: "Lacoste knits, Charvet shirts, Tom Ford suits and my 300 pairs of shoes." He told a journalist from the Financial Times:" If I go shopping, it might be to buy two or three more ties, which I never wear, or shirts from Charvet on Place Vendome. Here they have the most magnificent coloured ties: it's like looking at a lovely garden. I have tons of them at home and I am perfectly happy not to wear them." One of his line of lady shoes had "witty, wicked designs made of Charvet tie fabric".
The designer is noter to wear a "crisp white Charvet shirt, made to his own specifications by the famed Paris menswear store" His fabric of choice is "the "heavy, white piqué" that he replenishes three times a year. Theer is a tradition of care that the want to be perfect. It is really couture for men" declares Rucci estimates that he know owns at least 110 of the shirts that have become his trademark, every last one in white piqué with "two lowercase Rs embroidered in cinnabar at the base of the neck I must have tried 25 other fabrics but I always end up giving them away My white piqué shirts empowers me."
When delivering a speech at the MIT, "His tie and socks, both red, came from Charvet of Paris, the same couturier that used to make -- along with the Duke of Windsor's shirts -- Talley's boxer shorts, until that became "cost prohibitive"."To another journalist, describing himself his outfit:"I have a wonderful white cotton shirt. I always love white cotton shirts. Pique collar and cuffs, from Paris. It wasn't imported from Paris; I went to Paris and had it fitted. I had fittings. I have fittings for my neckties. My neckties from Charvet. You have to have fittings for your tie... so it's the right length. My socks are from Charvet. I don't have fittings for those". To a Swiss journalist: "I admire perfection in small details. Look at these cuffs. (He holds his shirt under my eyes) Look at the stitches on the piqué. Where can this be done today? Only Charvet in Paris, Place Vendôme. All my shirts are custom made at Charvet."In a January issue of Vogue, he wrote his New Year's fashion resolution was "to order custom Charvet pique tennis shorts and silk kneesocks the color of clotted cream".
"At once an epicure and a mystic, he professed an ascetic religion and wore beautiful Charvet haberdashery", particularly neckties and silk shirts(Charvet "disapproves of the silk shirts, the use of which, he alleges, is confined to Mr James Hazen Hyde and a few bounders of his class. Yet, to please me, Mr Charvet kindly consents to make you a pattern silk shirt, provided he may accompany it by a pattern linen pleated shirt" wrote Henry Brooks Adams in a letter to Bigelow.)
The Chicago Tribune's journalist Ellen Warren wrote in 2003: "Historians should note that, although Blagojevich has made much of his humble beginnings, his elegant pearl-gray Charvet tie - he now buys only Charvet - cost $135. He bought it, and a blue sibling (also $135) at Saks Fifth Avenue on Chicago's Mag Mile last week." Charvet is the "preferred brand of Gov. Rod Blagojevich" wrote the same newspaper in 2008.
Asked by a Men's Vogue journalist the question: "What does "style" mean to you?", Mr Kelly answered: "Bespoke suits and Charvet ties." He admitted to the New York Times a "personal weakness for $135 Charvet neckwear" and was described as wearing a Charvet tie.
He told a German journalist: "At home, I like to wear all days pyjamas - custom made in cotton by Charvet". He also told an English journalist: "I buy pyjamas from Charvet in Paris, who embroider “Do not disturb DT” or “DT sleeping” on the pocket. The most luxurious thing is to change your fine Egyptian-cotton pyjamas and sheets each day"
Berry Wall, nick names the "King of the Dudes, added to Charvet's fame by the caricatures of him produced by Sem. At that time, Wall was living with his wife and chow dog Chi-Chi in the Hotel Meurice, near Charvet, where he had the same signature ties and "spread eagle" collar shirts made for himself and his dog. Wall's famous "startling" striped shirts in red and sky blue were well known, with their very high false collars of a pattern different from the shirt's. His dog not only dined with him, but also wore Charvet collars and ties in the same style and fabric as his master's. The caricature shown had so much success that the Paris restaurant Ciro's, where Wall was a regular patron, had a reproduction of the dog made, in stuffed fabric, with his master's false collar around the neck, to be offered to guests.
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