At Milan fashion week Gucci’s creative director, Sabato De Sarno, picked up on an enduring moment in street and runway style: the twinset. On Gucci’s spring/summer 2025 runway, it appeared as a bandeau made from coffee-coloured jacquard with a matching jacket. To De Sarno, the twinset represents “casual grandeur”, an irreverent and easeful approach to dressing that hails from simpler times (specifically, times that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis went on holiday in Capri).
According to Sophie Barker, a stylist and the co-founder of the fashion directory Homeroom, the latest revival of twinsets began just over five years ago when Katie Holmes had a viral moment wearing a beige cardigan and matching bralette by the New York designer Khaite. Within an hour of a photo of the actor wearing the cashmere twinset appearing online, the bra had sold out.
