Zara now has THE trendy sweater that fashion professionals will be betting on in 2025 - and that's what makes it so special
2025 has some former ones-Rules obsolete.Diligently combines gold with silver jewelry, navy blue with black actually goes together much better than we thought for a long time - and, loafers, sandals and the like have long been the easiest way to add fashionable (color) accents.
And now, of all things, a top that was once labeled as totally stuffy is being elevated to the status of an absolute it-piece. Clear the stage for the polo sweaters!
This is how the fashion professionals style the polo sweater in 2025
When you think of polo shirts, you probably think of them first-World of the rich: golf, tennis - and equestrian sports, from which the cut takes its name. Or you think of a vacationer in the Hamptons between a visit to the elite university and cocktails in New York with heris discussing when she will finally be able to access her trust fund. All worlds where “coolness” is not the first thing that comes to mind.
But fashion pros have found a way to give the look a modern rebrand, and it's already on everyone's radar in 2024spotted in sweaters with the buttoned-up polo collar with small lapels. The reason for the new, young image that the sweaters that were once labeled as “bourgeois” are now getting: a contemporary break in style, toodiePolo shirt labels –and– shown on the catwalks in 2024.
Copenhagen Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2024
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Getty ImagesThe style break is created by the fashion professionals sometimes through the shape, sometimes through the color and sometimes through the texture of the other look pieces: with extra-short shorts, baggy cargo pants, too glossy, colored tights or-Jog pants. The color, shape and pattern of the polo shirts themselves are also played with: colorful stripes, cable knit or bright red.
Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2025
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Getty ImagesRalph-Lauren-Show in the Hamptons, September 2024
Getty ImagesLacoste-Show, Paris Fashion Week 2024
Getty ImagesShop the polo sweater trend at Zara and Co
Luckily for everyone who is rediscovering the polo shirt this trend season - and whose parents don't have a wardrobe full of tennis athleisure: there are already really nice (and affordable) models to shop for from Zara to Sandro:
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Polo sweater with a braided pattern
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Knitted polo by Sandro
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