PARIS — For so long as he can bear in mind, Charles Sébline has been obsessive about garments. One in all his earliest childhood recollections is of dressing up as Mickey Mouse in a jacket made from crimson felt, and he nonetheless remembers the precise texture of its black buttons.
“It’s about emotion,” he stated. “I’ve at all times had this factor for element and for making an attempt to make one thing the most effective that I probably may.”
As of late, he channels that vitality into his model Sébline, which specializes within the sort of exquisitely crafted males’s shirts that ladies simply like to borrow (Cate Blanchett is a fan, and Lily Collins wore considered one of his designs within the hit Netflix sequence “Emily in Paris.”)
Born in France of a French father and an English mom, Sébline has at all times had a foot in each cultures, so it stands to cause that his designs mix French rigor with a contact of British eccentricity.
Sébline’s signature striped painter’s shirt.
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His fall 2025 assortment consists of dandyish cotton poplin shirts with satin bibs and ties in watery shades of almond inexperienced and lilac.
His signature painter’s shirts in two-ply Italian cotton poplin are available in daring major shade stripes with contrasting bibs, whereas different types are trimmed with Moroccan thread embroidery or military-inspired frogging.
Sébline studied at Central Saint Martins in London and had a charmed entry into the style trade. When Vivienne Westwood got here to offer a chat on the faculty, they bonded over their shared love of Yves Saint Laurent and he or she ended up providing him an internship, which coincided along with her Anglomania assortment.
From there, he spent nearly two years at Yves Saint Laurent absorbing stitching methods within the workshop of Monsieur Jean-Pierre, the home’s head of tailoring.
“I can image him making a toile, and he was so fast,” Sébline recalled, snapping his fingers for emphasis. “Similar to that, like a dancer, like Nureyev or one thing — it was simply so easy.”
He developed his love of shirts whereas working at Saint Laurent underneath Tom Ford, when he would hit secondhand shops for analysis. As of late, Sébline can spend hours perfecting particulars like aligning the stripes on a sleeve with these on a cuff. “I assume I’m completely obsessive, fairly neurotic,” he confessed.
Charles Sébline
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But the shirts are made to be worn with a sure nonchalance. “I like the thought of it being one thing which you’ll pull out of the washer, drip dry, and simply throw on and put on with a pair of denims and a pair of trainers, and also you’re completed,” he stated.
Priced at $285 for a collarless shirt to $775 for a striped shawl-collared fashion with frogging, the gathering is carried in 25 factors of sale worldwide, together with Bergdorf Goodman and Newport Seaside, Calif., boutique A’maree’s within the U.S.; United Arrows and Ron Herman in Japan, and idea retailer Trois Pommes in Zurich.
Sébline is mulling the launch of e-commerce, however the nature lover in him likes to maintain issues small. In the meantime, he continues to hone his craft.
“I like the thought of designing issues which might be actually going to final. I’m in all probability much less all for vogue than I’m in making lovely garments,” he stated. “With time you try to go in direction of what’s important, and also you simply try to make it as distilled as doable.”
Sébline’s officer’s pajama shirt and pants.
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