We first discovered premium knitwear label & Daughter via one of the subjects of our Debrief Dissects series, TV presenter Laura Jackson. Several scrolls of the mouse later and we had completely fallen for their muted but endlessly wearable knits and natural styling.
You won’t find any bubblegum pink fuzzy knits, or print-strewn crop tops at this father and daughter partnership (we KNOW – cute, eh?) But what you will find at the Celtic-born label are jumpers that have been expertly made on the borders of Scotland and the west coast of Ireland, an ‘unfaltering love of navy’ and ‘a firm belief that you can never have enough grey marl in your wardrobe’. Which suits us.
It’s good news, because while a kitsch sweater may tickle us all over (yeah we're talking to you, Moschino), it’s the chunky speckled crew-neck that we'll be digging out every single summer when we’re cripplingly cold on that romantic UK-based break. (PS – & Daughter also do supersoft beanies and scarves.)
Designer Buffy Reid (previously a publicist for Gap) and her father (a tweed and cashmere wholesaler supplying stores such as Browns in the ’80s) sought eclectic inspiration from Steve McQueen, Kate Moss and Marilyn Monroe, but at the end of the day it came down to creating the perfect vintage-inspired Aran knit with soft but durable yarn, which Buffy found nigh impossible to locate on the market.
Our top picks from the collection are the Cashmere Rollneck in burgundy, £265, and the Aran Knit in natural, £195 – something they describe perfectly as ‘timeless as the white shirt’. In fact, we’d go so far as to say they look pretty great when worn together.
The only danger of perusing the collection, FYI, is that you'll want to grab one and run to the rugged Irish coast before we’ve even said ‘cappuccino’. So, beware of that, yeah.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.