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Some people look to the runways to inform how they’ll dress from season to season. Others devour magazines like this one for sharp, detailed trend reports on what’s hot and what’s decidedly not. (We thank and appreciate you for your continued patronage.) Me, on the other hand? I just wait for a new Katie Holmes fit pic to drop and then base all my wardrobe choices around it until she’s papped again in a few weeks or months.
Over the past couple years, Holmes has emerged as something of a cult figure in certain menswear circles thanks to her knack for looking effortlessly, unaffectedly cool on the streets of New York in a broad spectrum of genderless staples. One day she’s popping up in Midtown bundled in an ankle-length, double-breasted topcoat and beat-to-hell bit loafers; the next she’s slinking through SoHo in perfectly slouchy gray sweatpants and black Sambas. The common thread in all of Holmes’s best looks is her proclivity for quiet, expensive-looking, neutral tones and an innate understanding of proper fit—everything she wears drapes just so, neither Strokes-level skinny nor Billie Eilish-level baggy.
Last week, Holmes stepped out in what might just be her Holmesiest outfit yet: a light brown ribbed cardigan over a soft-collared white button-up and light-wash jeans, all loose and flowy and gently rumpled. She finished things off with the shoes of the moment—low-slung black Mary Janes—and a spacious woven leather shoulder bag. In theory, this is an exceedingly simple and easy-to-copy kit; in practice, get just one element slightly wrong and you suddenly look like the frumpy accountant in the next cubicle over.
That being said, you should try to imitate this look—or at least the relaxed and understatedly elegant spirit of it—all autumn long. Here are a few recommendations for similar pieces to help you do just that. And we’ll see you all back here soon for the next Katie Holmes Fit Report.
