£849 Marlborough trench coat last year on tour in Scotland. She also wore a £149 shirt bodysuit in March on a video call to support the vaccine campaign.“It’s an honour to see the Duchess of Cambridge wearing our Fair Isle,” says the label’s founder, Jade Holland Cooper. “It is perfect for pairing with jeans for an elevated everyday outfit.”Kate isn’t the first royal to wear Fair Isle knitwear.
She dressed Princess Charlotte in a Fair Isle cardigan for her second birthday portrait, and Princess Diana was pictured wearing a Fair Isle cardigan in the early Eighties.
The knitwear style actually owes its popularity to the Duke of Windsor though, who wore it in 1921 when he was still the Prince of Wales.
He even wears a Fair Isle jumper in a 1925 portrait by John St Helier Lander. The most authentic Fair Isle knits are still made in Scotland such as those by London Fashion Week designer Molly Goddard (from £400, mollygoddard.com) and the island’s most well-known knitter Mati Ventrillon (from £220, mativentrillon.co.uk).
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