I love the idea of being a shirtmaker, says Charles Sebline.
He started to laugh, then went on: Im very happy to do just one thing."
In many ways, his shirts are just like him.
Charles Sebline loves a stripe—and loves a striped shirt even more. (This one is from fall 2024.)
(Today theyre sold at Kirna Zabete and Net-a-Porter.)
(As an avowed non-presser, this was music to my ears.)
(Both the yarn embroidery and the frogging are relatively new for Sebline.)
Brilliance of color, attention to detail: Classic Charles Sebline, with a shirt from his Spring 2024 collection.
Its dreamlike, he says.
Its wonderful: The idea of their embroidery literally bringing the clothes together because of how they are constructed.
The stitching they doits not only functional; its also incredibly decorative.
Amplifying Sebline’s trademark jaunty stripes is his new obsession with frogging: A shirt jacket and pajama pants for this fall.
Much of Seblines appreciation for handwork comes from the uniqueness of his trajectory through the fashion world.
He alighted at Westwood after the labels founder came to speak at his alma mater, Central Saint Martins.
She told me, I think you should go to Paris and work.
The Moroccan stitching—decorative and intrinsic to the shirt’s construction—is done by a women’s collective outside of Marrakech.
That timeand that advicecrystalized one thing for him.
I had no idea if what I was designing could ever be made.
The Moroccan stitchingdecorative and intrinsic to the shirt’s constructionis done by a women’s collective outside of Marrakech.
You cant construct that!
he recalls, laughing.
So I learned how to sew; I began my apprenticeship.
I love the idea of making one thing as beautifully as possible, Sebline says.
