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Jo Jones and Helen Seamons

Head room: Wrap up the season with a fashion hoodie

Model on a runway in a hoodie
Miu Miu, fall/winter 2023-2024 at Paris Fashion Week. Photograph: Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

It’s official, the hoodie is this season’s most fashionable (and comfortable) staple. Like its activewear counterparts – the backpack, puffer jacket and hiking boot – fashion’s love of a staple in a luxury fabric with a price tag to match continues. Miuccia Prada put it centre stage in her AW23 Miu Miu collection (left), the hero piece in grey marl poking beneath a wool coat. Styled with leggings, it gave a fresh-from-the-gym yet business-ready look. Other versions came in leather.

Model in hoodie and coat
Miu Miu, fall/winter 2023-2024. Photograph: Victor Virgile

It’s an easy look to recreate on a budget. Arket’s scuba zip-up (4, above) is a dead ringer for the catwalk version. Wear it layered over a white or striped shirt styled with a pencil skirt and boots for the office. Your easiest entry-point hoodie-look is layered under a boxy blazer or an oversized wool coat – with jeans or your workout leggings and trainers. Varsity hoodies are never not in fashion and preppy brands like Polo Ralph Lauren and Rowing Blazers always have great colour combos. A trawl of vintage websites will yield a good find.

Gant’s New York is a unisex classic (5), especially styled with a camel coat – or channel Vetements with Weekday’s Metallica-style typography (2). Make your look extra cosy by adding a knitted hoodie over a rollneck – H&M’s beige version (£29.99), or Marks & Spencer’s Borg half-zip made using recycled fabric (£35) – worn with a slip dress and boots. For a luxurious take try Me and Em’s cashmere boxy fit or sleeveless style over a shirt and under a blazer or coat. The high street has a dizzying array of hoodies, but pick a weighty fabric to create the polished runway-ready look.

Female model in grey hoodie with long coat and leggings

1. Varsity, £79, hush-uk.com

Male model in blue hoodie and trousers

2. Slogan, £49, weekday.com

Female model in knitted cashmere hoodie, coat and jeans

3. Cashmere, £250, meandem.com

Female model in grey hoodie, blue shirt, black pencil skirt and boots

4. Scuba, £79, arket.com

Male model in burgundy hoodie and beige trousers

5. New York, £125, gant.com

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