According to the charming Pringle rep on hand at this appointment—Gaby Day was absent—consumer demand (mostly Asian) has seen the cost of cashmere increase by around 20 percent over the last year. Hence the sense—both ecological and economic—in Pringle’s introduction of the recycled yarn that featured in the color- and knit-patched sweaters found in this typically snazzy and snuggly collection.
Wood and her team revisited Shetland to seek inspiration this season. They found it in the colorways that reflected the play of heather against marine teal in the isle’s coastline and the panels of Harris tweed worked into otherwise knit bomber jackets or needle-punched on brand-name sweats. As in the womenswear Pre-Fall, there was a Charles Rennie Mackintosh connection, this time in the fine argyle-ish diamonds based on a 1920s textile pattern created by the Scottish decorative polymath. Nice knits.
