Cozy season is well underway. The holidays are a prime time for sporting chic sweaters, be it a refined cardigan or a sleek turtleneck dress. (Read on here for 24 iconic movie sweaters, should you need even more knitwear inspo.) And though dressing cozily is all about being warm and snuggly, that doesn’t mean it can’t be chic, too. Just take Tracee Ellis Ross’s lead. This week, the actor attended a screening of American Fiction in New York, and she cocooned herself into one of the best sweaters of the season—proving that a good, chunky knit can still be super elegant.
Styled by Karla Welch, Ross hit the red carpet in a fresh-off-the-runway Loewe look from designer Jonathan Anderson’s spring 2024 collection. The ensemble included a long, black cable knit-style sweater with oversized gold buttons—and was completely devoid of arm holes, making the knit more of a poncho of sorts. It’s almost like wearing a blanket—but chic. How she styled it also made it feel super refined: She paired it with dark-wash denim, and layered crystal necklaces.
The whole outfit is unexpected for a step and repeat, sure, yet it perfectly channels the dressy-casual vibe that a holiday party demands. Plus, it helps that she chose one of the standout pieces of fashion month: Anderson deliberately designed pieces that are slightly off-kilter, her XXL sweater included. He told Vogue, “How do you twist something so it’s ‘oh, yes—I recognize the oxford shirt and white pair of jeans,’ but then it’s off in a weird way? There’s a subversiveness to it.” Subversion never looked so snuggly.
