Rugby shirts and cable knit sweaters could also be trending, due to Jonathan Anderson’s debut menswear assortment for Dior, however at Begg x Co they’ve at all times been in style.
In her first full assortment as inventive director of the Scottish cashmere model, Vanessa Seward provided summer season variations of rugby shirt types in colours starting from cool blue to deep heather.
“Begg & Co have a legitimacy, as a result of it’s been one in every of their signature types for fairly a time,” she stated, noting that the corporate’s knitting base in Hawick within the Scottish Borders can be house to one of many nation’s most well-known rugby golf equipment.
For her summer season assortment, the designer launched lighter yarn weights and new blends, like cotton and cashmere for sweaters that featured cable-knit detailing drawn from the Begg x Co archive. Her ladies’s assortment was all about layering with “three units” — matching vest, skirt and sweater units, some that includes colourful artwork works by Jason Glasser.
His Moonrise and Dunes motifs had been additionally printed on the label’s ultralight Wispy scarves, which Seward believes set Begg other than different knitwear makers. “They’ve this savoir-faire of scarves and residential, which is definitely their core [activity], so I actually need it to be one thing the place scarves and knits stay collectively in a really natural manner,” she stated.
The scarves had been the right all-weather merchandise, after many locations recorded their hottest summer season on file. “It’s all about layering on the finish, since you go someplace and it’s freezing due to air con,” Seward stated. A living proof: her ultra-chic knit pants, which beat sweatpants palms down for cold airplane rides.
