Thanks to Succession’s Shiv Roy, bling is now taking pride of place
Sorry, Meghan Markle, it was a close call. Apologies, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, but you can’t win everything. Of all the best-dressed women of the past year, there is one style icon who leaves them standing. And that is quite obviously Shiv Roy from the HBO show Succession.
Not since Cher Horowitz in Clueless has an on-screen wardrobe skewered the alpha-female zeitgeist so perfectly. Where Cher rocked mini-kilts, spaghetti-strap layering and Alaïa-devotion, Shiv wears silk blouses in muted tones of toffee and oyster that whisper of an elevated taste level, and gossamer-fine knitwear that oozes stealth wealth. Also, she wears high-waisted tailored trousers better than almost anyone since Katharine Hepburn.
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