JW Anderson and Pringle of Scotland: argyle reimagined
Two houses with Scottish roots have merged their sensibilities in a collection that plays with argyle, bold hues and the generous proportions that define contemporary knitwear.
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Two design houses with Scottish roots—one ancient, one restless—have built a collection around what they share: an absolute command of the knit. JW Anderson and Pringle of Scotland created pieces in navy paired with light blue geometric shapes, camel with rust argyle, and cream with navy and caramel blocks. The proportions are deliberately generous: shoulders dropped, bodies lengthened, so the patterns read as graphic intention rather than decoration, and the silhouettes move with ease.
Pringle, rooted in Scottish knitwear for three centuries, brought technical mastery: the understanding of yarn, gauge and tension that lives in the hands of makers who have spent working lives perfecting the craft. JW Anderson brought a design eye that has never accepted knitwear as settled, always pushing toward what it could become. Collaborations between heritage houses and contemporary designers often retreat into nostalgia; this one refuses that path. The result feels like permission to wear a sweater with real presence, to choose colour deliberately, to let pattern function as something bold.
The collection layers: a caramel argyle vest over a navy turtleneck; a navy and light blue patterned sweater as anchor; cardigans with the same architectural precision; waistcoats that fit between seasons. Rust and cream and navy and camel and light blue move through the range as a considered palette. In the photographs, what registers first is precision: the argyle pattern repeated across a sweater front, the way the pieces sit on bodies moving and at rest. There is an absence of fussiness. You put them on and they work.
The collection includes pieces that layer beautifully over one another, which matters if you actually wear knitwear rather than display it. A caramel argyle vest sits over a navy turtleneck. A navy and light blue patterned sweater becomes the anchor for a look. There are cardigans with the same architectural precision, waistcoats that fit between seasons, and throughout, the commitment to colour that feels both confident and earned. Rust and cream and navy and camel and light blue move through the range like a conversation about what a colour palette can do when it is allowed to be generous.
The photographs reveal what matters: the texture of the wool itself, slightly nubbed and alive under light; the precision of the argyle pattern repeated across a sweater front; the way the pieces sit on bodies moving and at rest. There is an ease to the way they wear, which is the opposite of fussy. You put them on and they work. That simplicity, that sense of something being exactly right without needing to announce itself, is where real craft lives.
The collection is available at JW Anderson’s own stores and online at JWANDERSON.com, where the full range and colour variations are shown.
Imagery courtesy of JW Anderson x Pringle of Scotland (@jw_anderson).
