Keeping up with the trends: The Statement Knit

At Celtic Sheepskin we find top magazines a great source of inspiration for the current trends. Not one to favour one magazine over another because it’s very much a personal choice, this week we thought we’d draw from Red Magazine’s September issue to talk about the Autumn Winter 2010 trend that is “The Statement Knit”. To epitomise this trend, Red Magazine features a model wearing a cable knit dress and a long chunky scarf. Well, at Celtic Sheepskin we can certainly match that!

Let’s take our Statement Scarf (image above). At £140 it’s no light purchase, but is so chunky and warm you’ll find it often replaces a jacket and is totally on trend this winter. Then of course there’s out own Knitted Cable Dress £69 (below), which very adaptable when it comes to layering and the occasion you may find to wear it.

Getting past their initial trend round up, if you continue to browse the big pages of Red Magazine you’ll soon get to their main fashion shoot, entitled “The Long Weekend” which features lots of knitted jumpers and cardigans with much layering - in fact one cardigan reminds us of our Cashmere Amelie Cardigan, which we featured on the cover of last winter’s Celtic Sheepskin catalogue! As that’s no longer available, we’ll draw from from Prada’s Wool Jumper that can be spotted in countless magazines now (at £625 you notice this knit easily!). In Red Magazine they style it with a thin belt and woollen skirt, so let’s see what we can do with Celtic clothing…

The point of the above is that you’re making a statement with woollens. It’s a very relaxed outfit, mainly because we’ve styled it with a pair of slouchy woollen leggings, but you could so easily put the jumper with a knee-length woollen skirt. You just need to be bold with knits!

So with that in mind we’ll leave you with our Chunky Cable Knit, £75. A jumper that looks like a cardigan and can be styled in so many different combinations that we’ll even dare to suggest that if you only buy one piece for this season’s knit trend, you should seriously consider this jumper as being “the one”!