The agnès b. snap cardigan is a uniquely French combination of bohemian ease and bourgeois austerity, a Chanel jacket meets a Champion hoodie meets a baby onesie. emiliapetrarca writes on the cardigan’s comeback
Charlotte Gainsbourg wearing a snap cardigan with her mother, Jane Birkin, in the 1988 film Kung-Fu Master. Photo: © Étienne George/collection ChristopheL, Courtesy of agnès b. At some point in a woman’s journey to either become, or avoid becoming, her own mother, she realizes that the person who raised her might have actually had good taste.
Decades on, the snap cardigan, an ageless, timeless wardrobe staple from New York to Tokyo to Paris, is having a comeback. The style, called “Le Classique,” is still sold in a variety of colors and priced at $185, though it costs more in cashmere or leather. Sales for “Le Classique” grew by 253 percent in 2019. “In the past year, we’ve started to have a different type of clientele,” says the Soho store’s manager, Maggie Nathan. Young people who “don’t know who agnès b.
Made of a sturdy cotton fleece from Troyes, France, these snap cardigans tend to get better with age like a fine, machine-washable wine. So you really want a vintage one. It has become a pretentiously unpretentious micro status symbol passed down from mothers and cool aunts — either willingly or through a case of permanent “borrowing.” It’s neither trendy nor particularly flattering, but it signals something about you.
“Now, I see people wearing it everywhere,” says illustrator Joana Avillez, who inherited one from her grandmother and owns about a dozen.
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