Katie Holmes Has Reinvented The French Tuck

It was in 2018 that Tan France introduced the concept of a French Tuck: an old styling trick that involves tucking the front of a shirt into a waistband while leaving its back loose. Queer Eye’s resident fashion expert demonstrated this move on several downtrodden divorcees, supermarket clerks and farmers forced to have their appearances interrogated and miserable lives overhauled as part of the gooey franchise.

The French Tuck is perhaps Netflix’s answer to the Italian concept of sprezzatura, a term which first appeared in Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier – a 1528 guide to etiquette – where it is defined as “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”. Katie Holmes might be its finest proponent. Her style seems to have been based on that same idea of studied undone-ness.

Katie Holmes in New York. Michael Simon

The actress was yesterday afternoon photographed strolling through Manhattan in an outsized shirt layered beneath a knitted vest with just one side stuffed into a shin-length leather skirt. (A sort of supercharged French Tuck.) Holmes looked carefully careless – much like the time she carried a small farmer’s market-worth of tote bags on one shoulder, or when she arrived at the US Open with an argyle Miu Miu sweater knotted over her left arm. Holmes could school Tan France on a few more tricks.

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