Katie Holmes Is Stylist-Free & Looking Better Than Ever

Since Katie Holmes became a cashmere bra influencer, her wardrobe has garnered an increased level of media attention. Her trips around SoHo with her 13-year-old daughter Suri Cruise – who deserves her own shout-out for her current choice of reading material: The Handmaid’s Tale – are now rife with street style material, owing to Holmes’s choice of elevated daywear.

Shocker: Holmes doesn’t have a stylist. After working with LA-based celebrity dresser Jeanne Yang for years, and eventually launching a label, Holmes & Yang, together, they parted ways. The brand, too, shuttered in 2014, as Holmes’s attention shifted to motherhood and rejuvenating her acting career. She began shopping for herself, scouting new labels and building up a capsule wardrobe of interchangeable quality basics with discreet branding.

Case in point: the Khaite bradigan. The barley-coloured cashmere bra and cardigan set became a social-media phenomenon because of the innate sexiness and self-assuredness woven into that double dose of butter-soft wool. From Holmes’s milk chocolate nail varnish to complement the husk-hued sweater, to her messy ponytail to facilitate maximum shoulder exposure, nothing about the look was off-the-cuff.

Since then, Holmes has turned to Khaite for a gingham woollen trench coat and matching trousers (worn separately), and who can blame her? The descriptions of the Blythe coat and Bernadette pants, which touch on “autumnal spice tones” and “rich textures”, are just as delectable as the Scarlet cardy set that promises to “envelope the body” with its “exceptional softness” and “robust texture”.

Other brands ticking Holmes’s boxes are synonymous with this quiet, conscious style, where there’s a purpose to every piece. Like Gabriela Hearst, whose sustainable luxury proposition and limited-distribution handbags have won her another high-profile fan in the Duchess of Sussex. Wardrobe.NYC, the brainchild of Vogue Australia fashion director Christine Centenera, which designs capsule edits of wardrobe heroes that can be styled cohesively and worn season after season. And Rothy, which recycles plastic bottles and uses 3D knitted technology to craft them into eco-friendly ballet flats that are machine-washable.

Each brand in Holmes’s wardrobe is grounded by the premise that fashion should be about creating foundations to build on, and so, the actor has been re-wearing her investment buys week after week. Now that is street style to get behind.