The Grey Sweater Club

It's all anyone wants to wear now (or ever).

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Clockwise from top left: The Row Ophelia sweater, Alex Mill Becca cardigan, Alex Mill Reese cardigan, Uniqlo cashmere crewneck

I’ve always loved a good grey sweater. I have about five in my possession right now, from a thrifted Land’s End mens cashmere I wear exclusively on the couch to my newest acquisition, a ribbed cardigan I got during the Alex Mill sale (which is low-key still going on).

I wore the latter last week, when a group of beauty editors congregated at Pasquale Jones for a dinner for the haircare brand Odele (s/o to founder and former Gatekeeping guest, Lindsay Holden!). The evening was warm and inviting—not only because there was pizza and pasta on the menu, but also because it’s January in New York so grey sweaters were the unofficial dress code.

Editor Fiorella Valdesolo was one of the stylish people wearing the night’s It knit, so I followed up: “I was wearing a vintage Scottish oversized sweater that I found in the back of an antique furniture store up in Hudson, New York,” she tells me. As always, the best stuff can be found in the Hudson valley—I feel strongly about this.

Fiorella says she’s “really drawn to wooly dove or steel grey sweaters right now, maybe because of the contrast between the light color (a visual palette cleanser!) and the heavy nubby material.” She says her grey sweaters are “built to last,” as all of them are years-old, including “another vintage one, a paper thin cashmere cardigan that I’ve had since high school (which was many many moons ago) that I like to tuck into jeans, and a boxy deep V-neck, also cashmere but thicker that I got from a Steven Alan sample sale in the early aughts.”

I also consulted someone else I know with an expert-level sweater collection: my friend Caitlin Brody, entertainment director at Condé Nast. She’s been wearing her Alex Mill Becca Embroidered Sweater (sold out, but there are some on The Real Real)