The North Sea winds practically took half my face off this weekend and though the cold isn't really ever going to get THAT  extreme in London, I still can't get knits off my mind.  I've moved away however from the delicate summery things that one might wear in front of a fireplace at home to tougher things that can actually withstand the cold and have just done a bit of knit bulk ordering from Yokoo.  Though knitwear has come a long long way from those stereotypes of a granny knitting whilst watching Corrie, it is that exact stereotype that drives designers like Timothy James Andrews and his knits evoke that nostalgia of those wonky jumpers that your nan knitted you that you might have hated at the time that you might yearn for now....see pom poms and clashing colours.  At the same time there's also a refinement about the madness, a juxtaposition because there is a precision to Andrews' knits and I saw this first in his knitted bangles from his graduate collection which have been featured in editorials.  The capsule collection here for 08-09 has those same bangles but it's the giant sleeved dresses which at once combines my current obsession with extreme shape shifting clothes and knits...and guarding my body from North Sea winds...