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Daily Mirror
13-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Daily Mirror
New Look's £27 Chanel-inspired cardigan is ideal for summer office dressing
A lightweight cardigan is the ideal layering piece for handling office air conditioning during the summer, and New Look's new Chanel-inspired one is the perfect pick Whilst the rising summer temperatures are great news for everyone hoping for a little more sun, they can raise one major issue – how to dress for the office. With the heat meaning we need cool breezy outfits for morning commutes and after-work drinks, there's nothing worse than sitting down at your desk to find the freezing cold air con has you shivering throughout the day. A lightweight layering piece like a cardigan is the perfect compromise as you can fold it up neatly in your bag whilst commuting, and easily put it on once you get to the office to give you a little extra protection from the chill. If you're looking for a piece that's sophisticated and office appropriate, whilst still being easy to style and lightweight enough for the summer, New Look's Open Knit Button Detail Cardigan is a great choice. Despite its affordable £26.99 price tag, the New Look cardigan looks much more expensive than it is with a Chanel-inspired design that gives it a luxury look. With its relaxed, boxy fit which stops at your hips, large gold buttons up the front and decorative front pockets, it mirrors Chanel's iconic boucle jackets and knitwear, giving you a luxury look for less. The New Look Cardigan also has an open knit weave that keeps it cool and breathable, so you'll be able to get plenty of wear out of it all summer long. Although the cream option is giving us the biggest Chanel vibes, you can also pick it up in black and pale pink colourways, and they're available in sizes 6 to 22. If you want a bolder pattern, Finery London's £49 Velma Black Stripe Crochet Cardigan has a scalloped black and white striped print, with a similar rounded neckline and boxy fit. Over at Roman Originals, you can nab the Black Textured Boucle Button Knit Cardigan for £25 down from £40. It has a very Chanel-esque look with a thicker boucle weave and contrast trims, meaning you can wear it all year round. However, New Look's Open Knit Button Detail Cardigan has also been getting plenty of rave reviews from shoppers, who've given it a 4.3 star rating. One said: 'Great items for summer. Lovely quality and perfect fit.' Whilst another shopper wrote: 'Nice cardigan looking forward to wearing it when on a city break next month.' The only less than five star review said: 'Pretty and comfortable, was a little creased from packaging. I was planning to take it on holiday so I'm not sure how it would pack. It is lightweight. The buttons are pretty stiff to fasten. I did like it but returned as another one I'd ordered worked better.'
Telegraph
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The spring jackets that look as good with jeans as with a cocktail dress (from £35)
Say hello to the ultimate can-do piece… In checked tweed over a cocktail dress? Tick. Slung casually over a crisp white shirt and jeans? Perfect. This spring, a boxy jacket is coming your way in everything from suede to classic Chanel-esque bouclé. The boxy bouclé jacket has been synonymous with French style since Coco Chanel debuted it in 1954. It was, she told press at the time, designed to offer ease of movement. The relaxed shape was elevated by gold buttons and a braided trim, and proposed as a piece to be worn with a matching dress or skirt. Today it remains one of the building blocks of a modern wardrobe. It's a template that's been imitated, reworked and reinvented by high street and designer brands alike, but it remains the kind of thing that we buy in the hope that it will lend our outfits a little je ne sais quoi. It's a piece that has endured because it is useful. It has a place in both smart and casual contexts, as chic slung over a pair of jeans as it is draped over the shoulders with a cocktail dress. At a time when oversized, androgynous separates are the calling card of the fashionable woman, a boxy jacket injects some structure and femininity without being too heavy-handed. The nubby finish of bouclé (looped yarn) also adds a rich textural contrast with other wardrobe staples such as denim, cashmere or cotton poplin. Of course, just because it's classic doesn't mean that a boxy bouclé jacket is necessarily for you. For some, the traditional iteration will always remind them of their mother or grandmother, and not necessarily in a good way. They should look instead to something like Me+Em 's bouclé bomber, with its varsity collar and white piping, which is a grown-up yet contemporary take on the idea. 'Where the bomber jacket is typically a more casual piece, using a richly textured Italian bouclé helps to elevate it and allows for customers to style it up or down depending on the occasion,' says Clare Hornby, the founder and chief executive of Me+Em. 'This makes it a really versatile, hard-working item to have in your wardrobe.' Or maybe it's bouclé and tweed that turn you off. Instead, find that boxy shape at Jigsaw, but rendered in blush-pink leather, or at Massimo Dutti in a bitter chocolate suede. Fabienne Chapot has married the smart and the casual in a denim tweed – pair with the matching trousers for a cool, contemporary take on the suit. If in doubt, keep it simple. Toss it over a plain white tee or a crisp, untucked shirt. Team it with jeans and trainers. Button it at the chest and let the bottom swing out to create an A-line shape. The key is not to be too precious about it – whether it's Chanel or good old Zara.
