Why do the A-list love borecore?

Blazer, blue jeans, T-shirt. Dull? The style set call them ‘effective outfits’, says Anna Murphy

From left: Jeanne Damas, designer and founder of the French label Rouje; Katie Holmes wearing an APC jacket from her new collaboration; Margot Robbie in New York
From left: Jeanne Damas, designer and founder of the French label Rouje; Katie Holmes wearing an APC jacket from her new collaboration; Margot Robbie in New York
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Introducing borecore. Imagine a film star, a proper big one. Imagine her off-duty wardrobe. A blazer, shirt and jeans? A monochrome outsized trouser suit? Really? It all seems a bit, I don’t know, David Brent. The likes of Elizabeth Taylor wouldn’t have been seen dead out in common-or-garden garb like that.

But this tends to be even the most glamorous of celebrities’ day-to-day MO now, whether it’s Margot Robbie on the streets of New York this month, or Katie Holmes, patron saint of a particular variety of 2020s wardrobe, promoting her new collaboration with APC, which includes — no prizes — a navy blazer, white tee and jeans. (The only outré thing in the line-up is a patterned bedspread.)

It’s the same with the