Stone Island explores community through art gallerist Monika Sprüth
The brand's Autumn_Winter '026 collection features a felted wool cardigan worn by influential art gallerist Monika Sprüth as part of a hundred question research project exploring creativity, vision and the spaces where art and craft converge.
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Stone Island’s Autumn_Winter ‘026 collection unfolds not as a conventional seasonal presentation but as a dialogue between craft and contemporary thought. The felted RWS wool cardigan worn here by art gallerist Monika Sprüth embodies this philosophy: a piece constructed with deliberate technical precision yet designed to provoke conversation rather than mere aesthetic admiration.
The garment itself speaks through materiality. Felted RWS wool creates a dense, sculptural surface quite distinct from conventional knitwear, its worked texture suggesting labour and intention. A contrast fabric undercollar provides an unexpected interior refinement, while raglan sleeves allow for natural movement and the angled hand pockets sit precisely where they belong. The concealed front button closure with double placket adds architectural complexity to what might otherwise be a straightforward layer.
This piece emerges from ‘Community as a Form of Research’, a hundred question project that positions conversation itself as a mode of inquiry. Sprüth, whose gallery work has centred on amplifying women’s visibility within contemporary art, responds to questions about artistic inspiration, achievement and philosophy. Her answer about Alighiero Boetti and his exploration of contradictions, order and disorder, coincidence and necessity, extends naturally into how one might dress, how one might move through the world with intention and ambivalence held in balance.
Stone Island has long recognised that a cardigan, a knit, a constructed garment can carry intellectual weight. The felted wool here, treated with rigour and restraint, serves as both a practical object and a quiet argument for thoughtfulness in design. The red inner layer glows against the charcoal exterior, a colour choice that speaks without announcement.
The collection continues at stoneisland.com, with the full research project unfolding across the brand’s digital platforms.
Imagery courtesy of Stone Island (@stoneisland).