Still, at least his knees will be nice and warm, no? In his $980 kimono sweater.
Click here to buy it.
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Modelling is Hard: Menswear Edition
But what if your name isn’t “Kate”?
They didn’t really think this through, did they?
Or, on second thoughts, maybe they did: this ‘Kate’ sweater arrived on the Topshop website yesterday morning… and was sold out by 8pm.
Are there really that many people called Kate out there? Did the Kates Moss and Middleton buy them all? Or are there now a ton of people who aren’t called ‘Kate’ walking around with someone else’s name on their sweater? Is it a reference to the Duchess of Cambridge? Do people really worship her THAT MUCH, if so?
Explain it to us, please.
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It’s (Not) Hip to Be Square
Maison Martin Margiela‘s square knitwear (and coats, and other items) have been around for a long time now (in fact, one of the items from that collection makes a guest appearance in our header!), but for some reason, we’d never actually seen one from the back.
And now that we have… well, we kinda wish we hadn’t, to be completely honest, because seriously, who knew that this could possibly get worse? WHO KNEW?
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Winter Wardrobe Staple: Intarsia sweaters
Just in case you haven’t noticed yet, it’s winter here in the Northern hemisphere. So what better to wear than a snuggly, fluffy sweater? With, you know, a giant animal emblazoned across the front. What do you mean, you don’t have a giant animal on the front of your fluffy sweater? Well, allow us to fix that for you by rounding some up for you and herding them into the Fashion Police courtroom, where you can judge them to your heart’s content.
Intarsia sweaters are very much a winter staple for some people. From that first one your granny knitted you when you were a toddler, through all of the ones you got for Christmas, right up to the present day, when they’re available in every high street store, we’re willing to bet that the vast majority of you have owned at least ONE piece of knitwear with a pattern of some kind knitted into it, are we right? Would you wear one now, though? Well, there are so many of them available this month that at least SOME of you must be…
Of course, the pattern doesn’t necessarily HAVE to include an animal. Swans, cats and swallows are popular right now, but so are hearts, slogans and the classic “holiday” prints like snowmen, reindeer and Christmas trees, so really, anything goes. The ugly holiday sweater has been well and truly reborn: but what do you think of them? Will you be snuggling up in one of these this December?
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- Motorcycle sweater, $34, Gap
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- Wolf sweater, £35.99, Zara
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The Holiday Sweater Gets a High Fashion Makeover
Remember Holiday Sweaters? Here, let us remind you:
This kind of thing, yes?
Until recently, holiday sweaters were the preserve of those poor unfortunates who were given one as a gift, and forced to wear it, lest they cause offence. Oh, and the Cosby family, obviously.
Now, however, the humble holiday sweater is having a fashion renaissance, which means that this Christmas it’s going to be hard to tell the fashion victims from those rather earnest souls who wear light-up earrings in the shape of reindeer and drape pieces of tinsel around themselves in a bid to look “festive”. Or maybe not, because the new generation of holiday sweater is at least a little less garish, and a little more stylish than the ones of old. Witness:
Moschino, $875
Markus Lupfer, $480
Stella McCartney, $1,145
Markus Lupfer, $475
Aubin & Wills, $375
At these prices, we think it’s time to persuade granny to get the knitting needles out…
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Crime of Fashion? Halloween-themed clothes after Halloween
We’re officially ready for Halloween to be over now. What do you mean, Halloween IS over? It can’t be! Not when people are still buying $2,020 witch sweaters from Net-a-Porter, anyway. Or even £28 “scary skeleton” sweaters from Topshop:
These two items only appeared on their respective retailers’ websites after Halloween had been and gone, so either the spooky season is being dragged out for longer than usual this year, or witches, skeletons, and other such ghouls are suddenly the very height of fashion. We’re really not sure which is worse: Halloween lasting until Christmas, or people spending $2,000 on a holiday sweater.
You tell us, then: is it a crime of fashion to keep on wearing Halloween-themed clothing after Halloween, or are witches and skeletons, like, so chic, all year round?
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Style Stealer: Jayma Mays wears ASOS horse print sweater
We love it when celebrities wear clothes from the high street: it allows us to pretend they’re just like us, really, even although we know they’re totally not. And it makes it much easier to copy them, if copying celebrity style is your thing. Is it? If so, you may be interested in rushing out and purchasing this ASOS horse-print sweater, as seen on Jayma Mays (Hey, remember when “ASOS” meant “As Seen on Screen”, and all of the clothes were “as seen on” celebrities? This was all fields, then. God, we feel old now. We bet there are people reading this who are so young they don’t even KNOW what “ASOS” stands for, just like there are people who don’t know that “LOL” isn’t actually a word. Or punctuation. We digress, LOL.) this week at the Hollywood premiere of American Horror Story.
Not into horse print? Oh dear. You’re in for a rough few weeks, in that case, because horse print is going to be A THING this season. Trust us on this. Horses are the new Scotty dogs, as far fashion is concerned, so you may want to brace yourself for all of the people-in-ponies you’re about to see. What is it about winter fashion that makes people want to plaster tiny little animals all over their clothes, anyway?
Back to the sweater: it’s $61.11, it’s also available in grey, and you can click here to buy it from ASOS. What do you think of it?
[Image: PRPhotos.com]
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Daylight Robbery? Knitted gilet by SUNO
So, this exists. And honestly, we didn’t even know what it WAS at first (that’s always a bad sign), we just knew it looked like something Coco the Clown might have worn as a nipper. That’s not a good sign either, now we come to think of it.
What we mostly want to talk about here, however, is the price. See, this is £835, which is about $1,295. In its defence:
1. It’s hand-knitted
2. It’s alpaca wool.
Even so, unless it was actually hand-knitted BY alpacas, we still can’t imagine spending that much on… this. Seriously, just imagine handing over over $1000 and walking away with this! To think of all of the awesome shoes you could get for that price! Even assuming it took YEARS of hard work to create, we’d still kinda hate ourselves for spending that much money and only having a multicolured gilet to show for it.
What do you think? Daylight Robbery, or actually quite reasonable for hand-knitted item?
(This is by SUNO, by the way, and you can click here if you want to buy it…)
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