Creative guide on how to wear a sweater according to the latest fashion trends
If you think the sweater is just a sweater, you are wrong. Fashion gives new contexts to the most traditional garments. And now the above sweater becomes a scarf, now a peplum. The symbolic element of the winter wardrobe is a creative quirk and inspires the imagination of stylists and fashionistas.
The latest original idea comes from Milan Fashion Week on the occasion of the Fendi Fall/Winter 2023/2024 fashion show, where the sweater, or rather its reduction to a bolero, was not pulled over the head and let down, but knotted on the shoulders as if it were a scarf. This opens up to the imagination a number of scenarios of how the sweater can be worn in addition to the already familiar and more canonical crew neck or turtleneck way.
From Fendi to Uma Thurman, the sweater wears one shoulder
Perhaps it’s inappropriate to talk about sweaters in light of the Fendi fashion show. Because in the fall-winter collection 2023 2024, the garment is deconstructed, partially reduced to the essentials, until it is finally reduced to a scarf or a sleeve. Bias-cut clothing, vests without armholes, anything that overcomes the banality that sometimes makes us put our beloved sweater in the closet, gives us new ideas of wearability: let’s tie a knot and take it out.
Fendi fall winter 2023 2024
Fendi fall winter 2023 2024
The fashion idea of wearing the sweater like a cape on one shoulder only appeals to Uma Thurman, who during the last New York Fashion Week presented a bright red sweater on her right arm in the front row of Tory Burch, falling like an elegant peplum. Instead of draping, the sleeve that adorned the black look was assembled from cigarette pants and a matching blouse. So simple, so chic.
Uma Thurman at the Tory Burch Spring/Summer 2024 fashion show
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Max Mara lets the cardigan (or coat) fall off one shoulder
In general, knitwear does not serve the main purpose of keeping warm, but becomes almost an accessory. At the Max Mara show, the cardigans miraculously fall off one shoulder and stay in place. Even coats are folded for this purpose.